When a Stranger Calls

• 2006
• 87 min
• Horror
• Mystery
• US

Directed by Simon West

Seventeen-year-old Jill Johnson is grounded, broke on phone minutes, and stuck with a babysitting gig at a vast lakeside house of glass, timber and long unlit corridors. The children are already asleep; the evening should be homework and silence. Then the calls begin, and a voice on the line asks whether she has checked on the children. Simon West works every shadow and every ringing extension, turning one ordinary night of babysitting into a slow, closing hunt inside a house Jill barely knows.