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When a Stranger Calls
MEANRANK
50/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5228
- IMDb #3810
- Google retired #3429
- Rotten Tomatoes #4901
- Letterboxd #3758
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5485
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4389
- Criticker #2493
- AlloCiné #3508
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 8, highest is Google on 68. Critics average 33, everyone else 56.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A teenager is punished by being forced to babysit at a remote, modern lakeside home. What begins as a quiet night turns to terror when she receives a series of increasingly frightening phone calls from a mysterious stranger. The police trace the calls and deliver the chilling news that they are coming from inside the house, trapping her in a deadly game of cat and mouse with an unseen intruder.
Details
- Director
- Fred Walton
- Writers
- Fred Walton, Steve Feke
- Studio
- Melvin Simon Productions
- Released
- 24 August 1979
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $1.5M
- Box office
- $25.0M
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