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I just had a deja vu I think! It was just like the openingscene of Scream 1 only 20 times longer...

Pretty good, and decently scary horror film. The acting was pretty good. I really enjoyed it. Highly entertaining. Well worth a watch if you're a horror/thriller fan.

Too be honest with you the film was not to bad kind of boring, the only thing i really did like in this movie was lookin at camilla, shes really pretty and seems like she is actually pretty smart.

I went to see this movie when It first came out with my sister. I actually enjoyed the movie and got some scares out of it. When we walked out of the theater when the movie was over, there was Popcorn all over the back. It was hilarious.

Hmmmm, what to say about this film. To start it is way too short for a so called 'horror/thriler'. Two, the plot is boring and finally the acting doesn't help, therefore I'm only giving this film...

5/10...

''When A Stranger Calls''

I bought this movie on sale for $12.(by the way)
I thought it was pretty good but there was a number of mistakes hidden. E.g - The heavey knocking at the door, How could some one get away from the door in 3 seconds as Jill answers it? Notice that the attacker wasn't anyone that Jill knew? It just happens that no one will answer their phones or turn them on. The cat is black...why not ginger or white?? Who put the pillows under the kids sheets? At the start no one heard the girl screaming...whats with that?

It seems to be a copy of scream number 1. At the start the girls name was stacey, the girls name at the start of scream was Tracey. Jill said to the dude on the phone ''what do you want'' and he said ''i want your blood all over me'', in scream she said ''what do you want'' the man said ''i want to see what your insides look like''. Very similar??

Overall it was an okay movie

Yey VERY FUCKING STUPID(and even that is an understatement) I would normally write a full out review or recapitulation. But this movie is so pathetic in itself any review of this piece of SH!T would be an utter waste of time. If you have seen it im sorry, if you havent AVOID IT


Movierator's WORST 2006 Horror Movie Candidate
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Here are some movies

Only five ratings per entry... so here goes part one of the Megareview...

WHEN A STRANGER CALLS
The worst movie of the year, a terrible horror remake, awful acting, not scary in the least, lame story, everything is bad. Luckily, I'm here as your called ID, of sorts. Another awful horror flick, the most crowded genre in today's theaters.

LAST HOLIDAY
Queen Latifah is likeable enough, and there are certainly some funny moments, but it drags on, and the ending is too predictable. A feel-good movie that doesn't make you feel too good.

CURIOUS GEORGE
In a year crowded with aniimated releases, this film stands out as the best. George is the most adorable creature you'll see in any movie this year, and the story, animation, and the music (Jack Johnson is amazing and Oscar-worthy) are all great. I absolutely adore this movie.

THE LAKE HOUSE
One of the most pleasant surprises of the year. A great romantic movie, and Keanu Reeves manages to not ruin it! The main thing that bothered me was the inappropriate placement of a Paul McCartney song from 2005 in the year 2004. Tsk-tsk. A great romance, nonetheless.

SHE'S THE MAN
I would've loved to be in this brainstorm session. "How about 'Hamlet' with Lindsay Lohan?" "Nah, that's too heavy. Something funnier." "'Twelfth Night' with Amanda Bynes?" "Genius!" Though not very faithful to the play, this movie is pretty enjoyable, as far as teen girl movies go. It's much better certainly than a certain other girl movie, but that's for part two...

PREVIOUSLY ON "THE SIMPLE LIFE: THE MOVIES"...
(in living room)
ALL THE KING'S MEN (2006): Look, all I'm saying is that this is a futile arguement! Your time is over! I'm the one who's Oscar-bound now!
SOLARIS (2002): Oscar-bound? After sitting on the shelf for a year and a half because nobody wants your pretentious, overblown ass?
ALL THE KING'S MEN: Did you see my cast? HAVE YOU SEEN MY CAST? They can't NOT give me an Oscar.
(in confessional)
THE HILLS HAVE EYES (2006): ...and he wouldn't shut up about his damn Oscar, so I had to put a stick in his eye.

(music begins. Credits roll.)
NARRATOR: Welcome to "The Simple Life: The Movies," where we put together three heirs to the franchises of famous, relatively decent films and let see if they get along! Will they live up to the family name, or will they just come off as spoiled rich brats with no reason for living? Only one of these options is entertaining, so let's hope for the latter!

(shot of apartment living room. Doors open. WHEN A STRANGER CALLS (2006), a ditzy blonde woman with a permanent scowl, enters, followed by BLACK CHRISTMAS (2006), a sullen brunette with darting eyes.)

WHEN A STRANGER CALLS: Omigod, do we really have to live here?
BLACK CHRISTMAS: Umm.. I dunno. I guess, yeah.
WHEN A STRANGER CALLS: I am totally calling my agent. (grabs cell phone) Omigod, I totally forgot that I can't use my cell phone? Because I'm being punished? For using my cell phone too much? Doesn't that totally make me a totally interesting person?
BLACK CHRISTMAS: Does it? I don't know. I don't know what's interesting anymore. Am I interesting yet?

(land phone rings)

WHEN A STRANGER CALLS: Omigod, the phone is totally ringing? That totally scared the hell out of me? Look how scared I am? I'm going to go wander around this big house for no reason?

(WHEN A STRANGER CALLS wanders off)

BLACK CHRISTMAS: Should I get it, or... I'll get it. I guess. (picks up phone) Hello? Yes? Who's my daddy? Well, he was a 1974 movie that that paved the way for a lot of slasher films by setting up an intersting mystery premise and a creepy location and filling it with character actors that you could tell apart. (pause) Me?

(WHEN A STRANGER CALLS rushes back in)

WHEN A STRANGER CALLS: Is that my boyfriend? Or not? Or should we call the police? Omigod, I'm, like, totally freaked out right now. I'm gonna go run around the house some more. (Rushes out)
BLACK CHRISTMAS: (on phone) Sorry, me? Oh, I'm about the same, except that you know who the killer is at the beginning and you can't really tell the characters apart. (pause) Oh, I've got Michelle Trachtenberg.. and that girl from "Party of Five"... (pause) Sorry? Who's Andrea Martin? Sorry. Oh, and Katie Cassidy.

(WHEN A STRANGER CALLS rushes back in)
WHEN A STRANGER CALLS: Katie Cassidy? You know Katie? *I* know Katie? We are totally BFFs? Like, totally, like, I was just complaining to her about how I can't use my cell phone? Did you know that? That I can't use my phone? Omigod, that is so cool that you know her? I totally have to keep walking around this house some more? (rushes out)
BLACK CHRISTMAS: (on phone) I'm sorry. What? You want to lick my what? Who is this, anyway?

(door opens. THE HITCHER (2007), a smirking handsome young man, enters, on his cell phone.)
THE HITCHER: The calls are coming from inside the house!
BLACK CHRISTMAS: What, really? Are they? Sorry, where is that?
THE HITCHER: Umm.. I'm standing right behind you.
BLACK CHRISTMAS: Right behind me? So if I turn around, I'll see you. I don't think I want to turn around.
THE HITCHER: Look, just turn around, okay?
BLACK CHRISTMAS: Okay. (turns around.) (into phone) Are you still there?
THE HITCHER: It's me, dumbass.
BLACK CHRISTMAS: Oh. Oh! Right! (hangs up phone) You must be The Hitcher.
THE HITCHER: Yeah. Well, the new one. My dad was a Rutger Hauer movie in the mid-'80s. He was backed by George Bush and everything.
BLACK CHRISTMAS: Really? That's cool, I guess.. who's Rutger Hauer?
THE HITCHER: But I'm all new and better, because now instead of one boring guy getting stalked by a mysterious psychopath, I've got a guy AND a girl on the road. Two is so much better than one, isn't it?
BLACK CHRISTMAS: Is it?
(WHEN A STRANGER CALLS rushes in.)
WHEN A STRANGER CALLS: Omigod, you're The Hitcher? That is so awesome? We have so much in common? Because, you? Were written by Jake Wade Wall, who took the someone else's story and sucked all the good ideas out of it? And me? *I* was written by Jake Wade Wall, who took someone else's story and stupidly tried to make it three times as long? We should totally hang out sometime when I'm not running aimlessly around this house? (runs out)
THE HITCHER: Man, I'm already bored of her.
BLACK CHRISTMAS: Hey, are you British or something?
THE HITCHER: Well, I've got Sean Bean, and he's British, and he's a really good actor. He's kind of more human, though, where Rutger Hauer was more this embodiment of evil.
BLACK CHRISTMAS: Is that better?
THE HITCHER: Maybe it would be in a better movie, but it doesn't work with me, to be honest, but hey, check this out.
(THE HITCHER tears himself in two at the waist.)
BLACK CHRISTMAS: That was pretty cool.
THE HITCHER: Pretty gross and scary, huh?
BLACK CHRISTMAS: Nah, just cool, because you could tell it was CGI. Hey, I remember seeing this movie as a kid where this girl got town in two like that by two trucks--
THE HITCHER: That was my dad.
BLACK CHRISTMAS: Really, that's cool, man.
THE HITCHER: And you didn't actually see it.
BLACK CHRISTMAS: Are you sure? Because I can like picture it, and it was so much cooler looking than what you just did.
THE HITCHER: No, trust me, it didn't. You just--
(WHEN A STRANGER CALLS rushes in)
WHEN A STRANGER CALLS: Omigod, there's this new kid named FRIDAY THE 13TH coming down the block and he looks totally cool, like nothing I've ever seen before? We totally have to go meet him? And see how cool he is?
THE HITCHER: Whatever.
BLACK CHRISTMAS: Yeah.
(BLACK CHRISTMAS and THE HITCHER walk out of the house. WHEN A STRANGER CALLS runs further into thouse, screaming in shock at nothing in particular.)

NEXT TIME on "The Simple Life: The Movies:"....
THE DEPARTED: So Marty and I talked about it, and we decided that it would be best to retain the elements that would work best with an American audience, while adding our own flair for the--are you even listening?
SCHOOL FOR SCOUNDRELS: (slapping his face with pudding) Me like puddings! Me like puddings!