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2006
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1.5
Its strange to criticize When A Stranger Calls for bastardizing a film that was already lame to begin with, but the film simply doesnt have enough mat ..
Av Club
0.0
Simon Wests do over is a hollow, shallow, and just plain boring exercise in snooziness.
Austin Chronicle
1.5
A minimum effort horror movie. It does just enough to scare easily unnerved thirteen year old girls, and not much else.
Cinema Blend
2.5
Its the kind of movie that will likely go down much better on a Saturday night at home with your loved one wrapped around one arm and a box of Kleenex ..
JoBlo
1.9
Every heroine in a movie like this has to do one incredibly stupid thing.
Mark Reviews Movies
2.5
When the truth finally comes out, the film kicks into high gear, and the climax is admirably exciting and suspenseful.
Eric Ds Nider
1.0
Tweet When a Stranger Calls Jonathan Kiefer By This article was published on 02.09.06 Advertisement Do you really need a movie critic to weigh in on t ..
News Review
2.0
Its just a shame the rest of the film couldnt have been that good.
View London
1.5
The result is a sort of training film for pre teens who arent sure if theyre ready for R rated horror yet.
Film Journal
0.6
Even by the lowest standards, this is a frightless, cynically made movie.
Boston
1.0
The new film opts out of the extended story, choosing to spread the baby sitting yarn over its entire 86 minutes.
Mountain X
2.0
Resist the urge to hang up however, and youll experience a scary final fifteen minutes.
Reel Talk Reviews
1.5
type Movie Current Status In Season mpaa PG 13 runtime 100 minutes Wide Release Date 02/03/06 performer Camilla Belle, Tommy Flanagan director Simon W ..
Ew
1.0
While its true that the original version may not have been a masterpiece, I would gladly place thirty dollars to bet that it was much better than this ..
Cinema Crazed
2.0
What you expect from 1970s horror remade by Simon West loud, noisy, flashy but too rarely chilling.
Empire
0.5
And everyone knows that if you cant have fear, you need gore.But not here.
Movies
2.0
If you want to see this kind of thing done properly, dial up the first ten minutes of Scream instead.
Bbc
1.5
Prosecutors in the trial of Paul Manafort introduced into evidence documents about money transfers and home improvement proposals, and appeared to be ..
Washington Post
3.1
An added dose of palpable danger and a shot of gruesome goods could have done wonders for the overall outcome.
The Movie Boy
2.8
One of the filmmakers best ideas is to outfit the modern Mandrakis manse with lighting sensors, ensuring that not only can one not move about undetect ..
Reeling Reviews
2.5
A production that never comes close to realizing its potential to tweak the viewers primal fears.
ReelViews
2.5
Kinda tough to carry a movie all by yourself at such a tender age but Camilla Belle seems to handle the role of plucky heroine with aplomb.
Hollywood
1.5
Amateurish direction by Simon West (Laura Croft: Tomb Raider) contributes to the utter failure of this pathetic update of the original film of the sam ..
Coles Mithey
2.5
For the most part, Stolen comes off as an almost astonishingly generic thriller thats rife with familiar, hackneyed elements with the movies less than ..
Reel Film
4.0
When all was wrapped up with this movie, I was very pleasantly surprised.In a culture of gore and splatter films, its nice to see a real nail biter wi ..
7M Pictures
1.3
If theres a single dead wrong instinct in this movie that isnt pursued with the blind determination of an amorous terrier during high scent season, da ..
The Star
2.0
The screenplay dispenses with the carefully paced shocks of the original, and the villain is a rather generic boogeyman, whose unmasking at the end se ..
Urban Cine File
2.0
In the 1990s it spawned a made for TV sequel, but this remake is set to get a big screen follow up a lot sooner.
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
1.3
View all articles by Joe Lozito On the list of films that need to be remade, the moderate 1979 shocker When a Stranger Calls has to be pretty low.
Big Picture Big Sound
1.9
some of the cast is so bad it made me wonder if they won some sort of internet contest, or were the fifth caller on a radio station to get their roles
Waffle Movies
2.5
Lights that seem to sense when youre there and plunge you into shadow as you leave.
Movie Crypt
1.3
Analysis: While Hollywood may have run out of ideas, its going to be a long time before they run out of horror movies to remake and ruin.
ComingSoon
0.5
The film contains no suspense, no scares, and absolutely no reason for existing.Every cliche in this galaxy is utilized to laughable excess.
From The Balcony
2.5
We want you to be happy!.What if I do a mailing and get returned mail
Movie Eye
0.5
Much splashing ensues, but without the type of wet T shirt action youve come to expect from such distressed damsel affairs.And gore hounds and slasher ..
Ear Of Newt
2.5
A naked man who police believe was impaired crashed a car in a Highland Road parking garage Tuesday night, pinning a woman between two vehicles, Baton ..
2 The Advocate
2.5
Heavy duty horror fans will not be willing to pay this phone bill, but the core audience for this PG 13 thriller will more than likely take the Strang ..
Horror
2.2
Theres little of originality or novel invention here, and certainly nothing of essentiality.
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