"When A Stranger Calls"... Crimson Screens Doesn't Answer...
"When A Stranger Calls"... Crimson Screens Doesn't Answer
This is a remake of a horror film from them late 70's and I have not seen the original so I won't compare them, but I can say, that after viewing this, the original would surely have to be a masterpiece in comparison. It follows the same plot of a babysitter getting strange phone calls, she calls the police and they find out that the calls are coming from inside the house! Ooooooh scary!
It opens with a family being killed, intercut with scenes from am amusement park. Then the film skips to 120 miles away, where a girl, Jill, is having boyfriend troubles and parent troubles. Soon she is about to be having phone troubles and even sooner, the viewer will be having headache troubles.
Her dad sets her up to babysit for a family at their remote lakeside house. Hey, the house is amazing. It even has an indoor pond and bird sanctuary. Soon enough, mysterious calls begin and the terror begins. Actually no terror ever begins. The lead actress spends almost the entire movie lurking through the house, looking for the cause of noises and being scared. I wasn't scared once. Well maybe when they show a cat eating one of the birds, but that was it. Ha!
The lead actress, who has most of the screen time to herself, has these dark thick eyebrows and they were so distracting for the first forty five minutes or so. It was all I could look at. In fact, it looked like she might have lost her eyebrows and someone just drew on new ones with a black Sharpie marker. Haha!
Anyway, this movie was pretty bad. When the phone call guy eventually shows up, he isn't very scary or menacing. Just bland and forgetful.
If I had to pick one good thing about this movie, I would say that it would be the fact that Lance Henriksen does the killer's phone voice. Besides that, this one is a loser.
This is a remake of a horror film from them late 70's and I have not seen the original so I won't compare them, but I can say, that after viewing this, the original would surely have to be a masterpiece in comparison. It follows the same plot of a babysitter getting strange phone calls, she calls the police and they find out that the calls are coming from inside the house! Ooooooh scary!
It opens with a family being killed, intercut with scenes from am amusement park. Then the film skips to 120 miles away, where a girl, Jill, is having boyfriend troubles and parent troubles. Soon she is about to be having phone troubles and even sooner, the viewer will be having headache troubles.
Her dad sets her up to babysit for a family at their remote lakeside house. Hey, the house is amazing. It even has an indoor pond and bird sanctuary. Soon enough, mysterious calls begin and the terror begins. Actually no terror ever begins. The lead actress spends almost the entire movie lurking through the house, looking for the cause of noises and being scared. I wasn't scared once. Well maybe when they show a cat eating one of the birds, but that was it. Ha!
The lead actress, who has most of the screen time to herself, has these dark thick eyebrows and they were so distracting for the first forty five minutes or so. It was all I could look at. In fact, it looked like she might have lost her eyebrows and someone just drew on new ones with a black Sharpie marker. Haha!
Anyway, this movie was pretty bad. When the phone call guy eventually shows up, he isn't very scary or menacing. Just bland and forgetful.
If I had to pick one good thing about this movie, I would say that it would be the fact that Lance Henriksen does the killer's phone voice. Besides that, this one is a loser.
posted by Crimson Screens at 2:50 PM
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In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.
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