Yeah, baby - old school! I've long heard about When a Stranger Calls and only finally saw it. I'm not entirely sure it lived up to the hype but still, it's good to check the classics off the list.
Carol Kane plays Jill, a babysitter, sitting for a new family. Before long, she is getting phone calls every fifteen minutes or so:
Have you checked the children?
It's a simple premise and very effectively builds dread, bolstered by creepy music. Jill eventually calls the police - a couple of times - and finally they are able to trace the call:
The call is coming from inside the house!
Yikes! The police arrive and SPOILER FOR A 44 YEAR OLD MOVIE: the crazy guy is upstairs, the children are dead and Jill has a nervous breakdown. As one obviously does.
Seven years later the crazy guy has escaped and former cop/current private investigator Charles Durning is trying to catch him. From here on out, it is more of a thriller than a horror movie, until we get back to Jill, now grown with two children of her own, whom the crazy guy gets in his sights again.
Have you checked the children?
This movie isn't really horror but it does get quite tense (and seems longer than its 1:37 runtime). Carol Kane, when she is onscreen, is very good.
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