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Okay, I made this topic because, last night, I was goofing around on YouTube. I was watching a cartoon of Dane Cook's 'Horror Movies' and he was talking about a movie called, Saw, but then he began talking about 'When a Stranger Calls'. 'Have you...checked the children?' remember that movie? I never saw it, but I got all interested and, I made the WORST mistake anyone can EVER make in the history of Horror movies!

I decided to watched 'When a Stranger calls' I watched the trailer and got freaked out, I mean, imagine that you're a babysitter, you're at a dark house alone and then the phone rings. You answer only to hear heavy breathing. Then the phone rings again. The girl answered the phone and the guy said in a very creepy voice 'Have you checked...the children?"

And then, I watched the first 2 half's of the original movie. "Have you...checked the children?"

Now, what the freak kind of a question is that?! That's like saying 'you might find that not all is well with the children!!' A complete stranger calling you and asking 'have you checked...the children?" How would he even know you're babysitting?! Then he calls again and says 'Why haven't you checked the children?!'. So the girl called the Police and they refused to come over until he became known as a threat, they said next time he calls they can try to trace a call.

So he DOES call again and they talk, the babysitter and the stranger. She asks what he wants and he says 'your blood... all over me!'. I stopped watching after that but I found out before that that the Police find out that the guy calling is a serial killer and he is calling from somewhere inside the house!! And what's worse, the stranger is hiding out in the kids room on the ceiling rafters, and he can see her from his bloody phone!!! And then before that after she checks the kids the stranger is like 'How were the children?'. I mean that movie is (beeping) scary! I was afraid to sleep last night so I slept with my parents, like a stupid little kid. But guess what, that's the kind of stuff I ALWAYS worry about in general! So that's like a movie based on my imagination!

Dane Cook is a hack, and "When a Stranger calls" is a horrible movie. Not scary at all, and lacking even the smallest sign of logic or plot.

Strangely familiar, I'm fairly sure that the "In-house Killer" is based on a myth/story . I remember watching "Urban Legends" on Discovery Channel some years ago and there was one also 'bout a nanny being called whilst babysitting the children, but the police was able to traced the call (He was in the upstair bedroom) and caught the creepy guy, he was her (ex-)boyfriend trying to kill her or something.
But on the other hand, it has a different (If more tragic) ending which the boyfriend just killed her and the children mercilessly.


BTW, Urban Legend is a great show surrounding the bizarre myths of Urban Life, some are chilling but others are quite hilarious , worth watching!