When a Stranger Calls (2006)

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Max Schreck as Graf Orlok in "Nosferatu" (1922)

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Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

Film.com's FREE movie of the week is "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror." This 1922 classic of cinema based on Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (but with names changed) directed by F.W. Murnau and starring Max Schrek in one of films most famous and frightening make-up jobs.

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Studio: Screen Gems

Rating: PG-13

Release Date: Feb 3, 2006

Running Time: 99 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Camilla Belle, Tommy J Flanagan, Tessa Thompson, Brian Geraghty, Clark Gregg, Derek DeLint, Kate Jennings Grant, David Denman, Arthur Young, Madeline Carroll

director: Simon West

When a Stranger Calls

When A Stranger Calls

In a remote hilltop house, high school student Jill Johnson settles in for a routine night of babysitting. With the children sound asleep and a beautiful home to explore, she locks the door and sets the alarm. But when a series of eerie phone calls from a stranger insists that she "check the children," Jill begins to panic. Fear escalates to terror when she has the calls traced and learns that the calls are coming form inside the house. Jill must summon all of her inner strength if she is going to fight back and make it out of the house alive.

This latest horror remake may not necessarily pack the same horrifying wallop as the original, but When a Stranger Calls is still a classic example of a babysitter's worst nightmare.

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Hands down, there is nothing more frightening than to be babysitting alone in a large unfamiliar house while simultaneously being terrorized by a homicidal maniac, who keeps calling and asking if the children have been checked. The original 1979 Stranger certainly hammered this point, with a young Carol Kane…