Audio problem: When the children run out of the garden, the girl is screaming, but her mouth is not open.
When A Stranger Calls (2006)
Plot summary
Directed by: Simon West
Starring: Tessa Thompson, Tommy Flanagan, Camilla Belle, Katie Cassidy
Jill expected it to be a quite night babysitting in the country. She only had to take this stupid job because Bobby made her go 800 minutes over her allowed time on her cell phone, so her parents were having her make up for it by taking a babysitting job. When she arrives at the house she's babysitting at, it's huge. The children are already asleep and the parents show her around. The parents leave and she explores. Later on, she starts recieving phone calls from a strange man. She does not know who it is and *69 does not seem to work for the number. She dismisses it, but then the calls keep coming. She calls the cops. They instruct her to keep the caller on the phone for at least 60 seconds if possible. The maid mysteriously disappears, she can't reach any of her friends, and these calls are really creeping her out. Jill is at last able to reach her ex-boyfriend Bobby, and she asks him if he's been calling, assuming it's him and his friends making prank phone calls, but he says no and the phone cuts off. Jill finally keeps the man on the phone for 60 seconds and calls the cops. They trace the call. Later on she answers the phone thinking its the strange man again but it's the cops telling her the calls are coming from inside the house. She then ends up fighting for her life as the man finds her inside the house. Now she has to save her own life, as well as the children's. Can she save the lives of everyone she loves? Or will she end up dead?
Cayla
Stranger on the phone: What are you wearing?
Jill: Combat boots and a parka you jerk, now who is this?
Question: How would the stranger have known that Jill was going to babysit that night. Did he follow her out there? Or was he just hanging around the area of the house waiting to see if the parents ever went out for a night and left a babysitter with the kids?
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Answer: The stranger could not have followed Jill to the house because when Jill gets there, he is already at the house. The front door was open. As to the second part of your question: dumb luck. The stranger was hanging out at the guest house just waiting for the parents to leave.
ChristmasJonesfan
I think he might have been stalking Jill. He could have been following her around her home and school. He targets teenage girls and might have been looking for the right moment to strike. For all we know, he broke into her house when no-one was there and could have found the address and maybe a note reminding Jill that she had to babysit, and then he just would get out there ahead of time to wait for her.