IMDb plot summary: A psychopathic killer terrorizes a babysitter, then returns seven years later to menace her again.
Directed by Fred Walton. Starring Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Tony Beckley, and Ron O'Neal.
Most synopses indicate this is the babysitter's story, but it really isn't -- while her pieces of the story are by far the most compelling, she's actually only in the first 30 and last 15 minutes or so of the movie. The middle hour is a tedious play-by-play of the murderer's trek through the city and the private detective trying to find him and abruptly announcing at one point that he's going to kill him because, as he says, "The closer I get to this guy, the more he gets to me. I don't know." Gotta love a protagonist who's like, "I dunno, this person bugs me, guess I have no choice but to murder him." Nothing in the movie ever measures up to that first half hour, which is well-executed and feels like an Internet creepypasta in the simplicity of its horror. After that, it's a steep drop downhill, with a sloppy attempt at recapturing those early scares at the end.
How it entered my Flickchart:
When a Stranger Calls < Broken Embraces
When a Stranger Calls > An Ideal Husband
When a Stranger Calls > The Rescuers Down Under
When a Stranger Calls > Dr. Seuss on the Loose
When a Stranger Calls < Steamboat Bill, Jr.
When a Stranger Calls < Happy Gilmore
When a Stranger Calls > Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
When a Stranger Calls > An American in Paris
When a Stranger Calls < The Subject Was Roses
When a Stranger Calls > The Ramen Girl
When a Stranger Calls < Where the Red Fern Grows
Final spot: #1786 out of 3250, or 45%.
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