#when a stranger calls

[dorawinifredread]

[junkfoodcinemas]

When a Stranger Calls (1979) dir. Fred Walton The House of the Devil (2009) dir. Ti West

[horrortvfilmsource]

When a Stranger Calls (2006) dir. Simon West

[animusrox]

31 Days of Horror Marathon 2023 ↪ Day 18: When a Stranger Calls (1979) dir. Fred Walton

[n7crophiliac]

it’s the mostttt wonderful timeeee of the yearrr 🎃🔪!

[sissyspaceks]

CAROL KANE in WHEN A STRANGER CALLS (1979) DREW BARRYMORE in SCREAM (1996)

[themostineptthateverstepped]

I've been on a journey through the slasher genre, and the other night I watched When A Stranger Calls. I couldn't shake the idea that somehow the killer, Curt Duncan, reminded me of Will Graham.

I found the film really interesting, especially with how, in a lot of ways, it followed the slasher blueprint very closely, but then deviated in ways that you don't see anymore. For instance, the fact you spend the first 20 minutes of the film terrorized by the killer, and then proceed to spend a good portion of the rest of the film with Duncan simultaneously feeling scared of and sorry for him...

The director actually had a very nuanced and sensitive view of the killer, and that kind of blew me away. Like, he was terrifying and you couldn't trust him from one second to the next, but you also recognized that he was in mental agony, you know?

Which is also very Will Graham, creating that ability to empathize without condoning.

It was interesting.

[cr1msondll]

Pt. 2 of my fav horror/slasher movies 🔪🩸

1. Texas chainsaw massacre (1974)

2. Psycho (1960)

3. Scream (1996)

4. When a stranger calls (1979)

5. Candyman (1992)

6. Halloween (1978)

7. Eyes without a face (1962)

8. Nosferatu (1922)

9. Sleepaway camp (1983)

10. The Brood (1979)

[fanofspooky]

When a Stranger Calls

2006 • PG-13 • 1h27m

During a babysitting gig, a high-school student is harassed by an increasingly threatening prank caller.

[celestialmega]

When a Stranger Calls by Fred Walton.

[dorawinifredread]

[guttersnarls]

[amazingmaeve]

PARALLELS

scream (1996) // when a stranger calls (2006)

[slashericons]

Jill Johnson — When a Stranger Calls (2006)

[angelcake-17]

Clarice:No way. She didn't do that!

Laurie:She did and its so embarrassing!

Jill:I can't believe this she really did. How embarrassing and upsetting.

Ash:I would like to gossip too 🥲

(Poor ash. All he wanted was to gossip like girls 😔)

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Jill Johnson - When a Stranger Calls, 2006