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kcremer [ 4.5 ]
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Starts off well enough - Carol Kane is creeped out by a series of harassing phone calls she receives by an evil-sounding man while babysitting alone in a house - then goes nowhere. I'd have given the movie a better rating if it had been an hour shorter.
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DokBrowne [ 6.0 ]
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The beginning and ending: the good, creepy stuff that horror classics are made of. The actual meat of the movie in-between is...okay. It's not bad, but underwhelms in the context of scary cinema, since it just draws out Charles Durning's investigation and the killer's would-be sympathetic fixation on a new victim. The screenplay obviously has no inspiration to fill out or expand upon its great urban legend premise, so it just contrives a lot of tangential business about the killer's psychology and a Loomis-lite type. Too bad.
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Stitch [ 7.5 ]
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If you watch this movie, don't plan on babysitting anytime in the near (or far) future. When A Stranger Calls did to babysitting what Psycho did to showers. The first third of this movie is terrifying then moves to suspenseful and a little scary. But that opening part is worth it. I won't add anything more except, "Have you checked the children?".
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| Weighted Rating | : 5.7 |
| No. Ratings | : 6 | |
| No. Reviews | : 5 | |
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