“Every babysitter’s nightmare becomes real…”
Considered to contain one of the scariest scenes in horror history,
When
A Stranger Calls has achieved cult status simply due to the first 20
minutes of the film. The story of a babysitter and a dangerous man upstairs
evokes terrifying imagery, and has become an archetypical scenario for hundreds
of horror movies to follow (i.e. The House of the Devil). Inspired by
the success of Halloween in 1978, Fred Walton decided to revisit a short film
that he had done entitled The Sitter, which became what we now
know as When A Stranger Calls, one of the first of many home invasion
films to come out of the horror genre.
