When a Stranger Calls Back

When a Stranger Calls Back (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
90 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1993 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Fred Walton

Written By:
Fred Walton
Steve Feke

Actors:
Carol Kane ..... Jill Johnson
Charles Durning ..... John Clifford
Jill Schoelen ..... Julia Jenz
Gene Lythgow ..... William Landis
Karen Elizabeth Austin ..... Skid Row Wom
Babs Chula ..... Agent
John B. Destry ..... Detective
Duncan Fraser ..... Club Owner
Jenn Griffin ..... Club Girl
Gary Jones ..... X-Ray Technician
Terence Kelly ..... Medical Examiner
Michèle Lonsdale Smith ..... Center Woman
Kevin McNulty ..... Dr. Schifrin
Sheelah Megill ..... Center Woman
Rebecca Mullen ..... Club Girl 2

Synopsis:

Before there was Scream, there was The Stranger Jill Schoelen is Julia Jenz, a college student trying to put her life together after undergoing a terrifyingly similar ordeal while baby-sitting five years earlier. When someone begins stalking Julia, the police think she's just a hysterical coed, but Jill Johnson, the campus director of women's services, knows that such things happen - she's been there. Jill recruits retired detective John Clifford, and old friend who saved her life thirteen years ago, in an effort to nail the stalker, but can they find and outwit the culprit before it's too late to save Julia?

Another psychopath haunts another baby sitter in this made-for-TV sequel to the 1979 feature When a Stranger Calls. When prim schoolgirl Julia (Jill Schoelen) accepts a last-minute baby-sitting assignment from a doctor and his wife (Kevin McNulty and Cheryl Wilson), she follows all the rules: She studies diligently, checks often on the kids, and refuses to open the door for strangers -- even when a stranded motorist asks to come in and call his auto club. Julia offers to call for him, but the phone is dead, and rather than alert a strange man that she's without a link to the outside world, she lies and says they're on their way. The man returns to the door repeatedly, angrily wondering why help hasn't arrived; as he continues to badger Julia, she notices things aren't right in the house. Slips of paper disappear, doors mysteriously unlock themselves, the children vanish, and Julia barely escapes with her life. Five years later, Julia is an introverted college student with some heavy-duty locks on her door. Nevertheless, she starts getting that familiar feeling that something isn't right. Enter Jill Johnson (Carol Kane), survivor of a similar baby-sitting atrocity many years earlier. Now a guidance counselor at Julia's university, she offers to help the girl track down her stalker. With the help of an old friend, private eye John Clifford (Charles Durning), Jill picks up the trail of a disturbed ventriloquist (Gene Lythgow). But when Julia ends up with a bullet in her head in an apparent suicide attempt, even John thinks Jill's investigation is a wild goose chase. Reuniting stars Carol Kane and Charles Durning with writer/director Fred Walton, When a Stranger Calls Back features another horror veteran in its cast. Jill Schoelen previously starred in 1990's Popcorn.

Julia is babysitting two young kids while a doctor and his wife are out. During the evening, a stranger knocks on the door asking Julia if she can call the auto club so he can get a tow. The phone line is dead though. This is all part of the act as he has made his way inside and abducted the two children. Years later, Julia has become an introvertive college student. She claims the stalker is back haunting her. Enter Jill Johnson and now retired cop John Clifford, who have reunited to help Julia find the stalker. Can they stop him before he strikes again?

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 14 March, 2013.

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