When a Stranger Calls
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Director: Fred Walton
1979 / 97min / 35mm
An unnervingly effective sleeper hit thriller based on everyone’s favorite campfire spine-tingler (“The call is coming from inside the house!”), When a Stranger Calls stars Kane as the recipient of the fateful phoner—first as a young babysitter, then as a mother herself, in danger anew when psychopath Tony Beckley gets loose from the psychiatric facility he’s been committed to, with cop Charles Durning her lone line of defense. One of the finest first reels in American genre cinema, and the movie that shows wide-eyed Kane’s extraordinary ability to register various shades of terror.
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