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Information
- Year
- 1993
- Runtime
- 94 min.
- Director
- Fred Walton
- Genres
- Thriller, Horror
- Rating *
- 6.4
- Votes *
- 1,541
- Checks
- 242
- Favs
- 2
- Dislikes
- 5
- Favs/checks
- 0.8% (1:121)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:3
Top comments
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Siskoid
14 years after When a Stranger Calls, Fred Walton made what I was going to call a TV-sanitized sequel with When a Stranger Calls Back, but it was for Showtime, so it surprises with sudden nudity at some point. In a way, that makes it harder edged than the first. The movie starts much like the first one, with a babysitter being terrorized, but the details are intriguingly different. Not quite as scary, but five years later, she's a nervous wreck and the kidnapper (not necessarily a killer in this case) is breaking into her apartment to leave her clues. So she turns to social worker Carol Kane and her friend retired policeman Charlie Durning, the perfect combo to get her in a safe place and solve the crime. If the 1979 original plays at cop show in its middle act, this feels even more like a pilot for a show where every week, Kane and Durning help a young person out and catch their weird stalker. At least in this case, it's more classically structured and we don't lose sight of the particulars. It's also a pretty bleak vision that only warms you up because Kane and Durning have a nice friendship going. 3 months 3 weeks ago -