When a Stranger Calls (2006) on Netflix
Jill Johnson, 16, babysits the Mandrakis children as the penalty for overusing her cell phone. With the kids asleep, a caller who says nothing starts telling her he can see her.
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Plot summary
Stacy, a teenage babysitter, answers a wrong number during a night job, and heavy breathing on the line keeps coming back; police later find her and the three children in her care dead. Jill Johnson, 16, babysits for the wealthy Mandrakis family in Colorado as the consequence of going over her cell phone minutes. Mrs. Mandrakis gives her a tour of the house and points out Rosa, the live-in housemaid, before she leaves for the evening. Then the calls reach Jill, someone who stays quiet and hangs up, and she takes it for a prank by her friends until they deny it. Tiffany, a friend, stops by, and Jill, worried about getting in trouble, asks her to go. One call convinces Jill the stranger can see her, so she phones the police, who say a trace takes sixty seconds.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about When a Stranger Calls (2006)
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- Evan Rachel Wood was offered the role of Jill but turned it down. Camilla Belle was approached next and almost refused as well, because of her personal dislike for horror films, until West, the director, convinced her that he was going more for a psychological thriller.
- Camilla Belle did two months of weight-training and learned how to run for the part. She was injured twice on set, striking a wooden bridge and cutting and scarring her hand, and slamming her head against a glass window.
