When a Stranger Calls
Movie • 2006 • Horror
ReportFar away from the site of a gruesome murder, a teenager named Jill Johnson arrives at a luxurious home for a baby-sitting job. With the children fast asleep, she settles in for what she expects to be an ordinary evening. Soon, the ringing of a phone and the frightening words of a sadistic caller turn Jill's routine experience into a night of terror.
This movie contains 16 potentially triggering events.
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The main character is stalked by a man using a second telephone line in the house.
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Two children are terrorized by an intruder, they aren’t physically harmed but the teenager is
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A teen is said to have gotten drunk and kissed another girls boyfriend, she then goes and tries to drink more later
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A bird is seen being eaten by a cat
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A bird is eaten
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A pet bird is killed by a cat late in the movie.
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The main character is strangled
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The killer has a fire poker rammed through his hand.
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