# When a Stranger Calls (2006 film)

When a Stranger Calls is a 2006 horror film about a babysitter who starts to receive threatening phone calls from an unidentified stranger. It is a remake of the 1979 film of the same name.
    Directed by Simon West. Written by Jake Wade Wall.

## Dialogue

    [The phone rings. Jill answers it.]
    Jill Johnson: Hello? [No one responds] ...Mandrakis Residence?
    Voice of the Stranger: Have you checked the children?
    Jill Johnson: What?
    [The stranger hangs up. Jill runs and checks on the children. She comes back downstairs, The phone rings again, Jill answers it.]
    Jill Johnson: Hello?
    Voice of the Stranger: .....How were the children?
    Jill Johnson: Tiffany, I know it's you. I can see your name on Caller ID, genius.
    Voice of the Stranger: This isn't Tiffany.
    Jill Johnson: Who is this?
    Voice of the Stranger: .....Who is this?
    Jill Johnson: Cody?
    Voice of the Stranger: Who's Cody?
    Jill Johnson: You better cut this out!
    [The stranger hangs up]
    Officer Burroughs: Do you have any friends that can come stay with you?
    Jill Johnson: They're all at the bonfire.
    Jill Johnson: He can see me!
    Officer Burroughs: Sorry?
    Jill Johnson: It's Jill, the girl who called before about the man who keeps on calling.
    Officer Burroughs: What's going on?
    Jill Johnson: He called me again.
    Officer Burroughs: What did he say?
    Jill Johnson: He's out there, he's outside, he's watching me through the windows.
    Officer Burroughs: Did you see him?
    Jill Johnson: No, but I know he can see me, because I went upstairs..
    Officer Burroughs: Okay, take a deep breath, where's the house keeper?
    Jill Johnson: I don't know, I saw her purse and the keys but I can't find her.
    Officer Burroughs: The house locked up?
    Jill Johnson: Yes.
    Officer Burroughs: Alarm system?
    Jill Johnson: It's on.
    Officer Burroughs: Okay, you're safe inside that house. If he wanted to break in, he wouldn't be calling.
    Jill Johnson: But he must want something!
    Officer Burroughs: Listen to me, Miss, it's just some asshole trying to hassle you.
    Jill Johnson: You really scared me, if that's what you wanted. Is that what you wanted?
    Voice of the Stranger: No.
    Jill Johnson: What do you want?
    Voice of the Stranger: Your blood all over me.
    [The phone rings again, Jill abruptly answers it.]
    Jill Johnson: Stop calling me you sick...!---
    Officer Burroughs: [on phone] Jill, listen to me. We traced the call. It's coming from inside the house!...
    [Jill's eyes widen in shock.]
    Officer Burroughs: [on phone] ...Do you hear me? It's coming from inside the house! You need to get out! Jill?
    [The power goes out. Jill hear a cellphone ringing, She turns around and finds Tiffany's dead body. Jill shrieks.]
    Jill Johnson: Where is he?
    Officer Burroughs: We got him. He's in that police car right over there. In ankle cuffs, handcuffs. Enought sedatives to kill a horse. We're gonna take him to the hospital. We'll have four cops guarding him around the clock.
    Jill Johnson: That's not enough.
    Officer Burroughs: Has he been using threatening language?
    Jill Johnson: No, sometimes he doesn't even say anything, he just keeps on calling.

## Taglines

* Evil Hits Home
* Whatever You Do, Don't Answer The Phone.

## Cast

* Camilla Belle - Jill Johnson
* Tommy Flanagan - Stranger
* Katie Cassidy - Tiffany
* Tessa Thompson - Scarlet
* Brian Geraghty- Bobby
* Clark Gregg - Ben Johnson
* Derek Lint - Dr. Mandrakis
* Kate Jennings Grant - Kelly Mandrakis
* David Denman - Officer Burroughs
* Arthur Young - Will Mandrakis
* Madeleine Carroll - Allison Mandrakis

## External links

* When a Stranger Calls quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* When a Stranger Calls at Rotten Tomatoes
* The official When a Stranger Calls site