RankquantRQ
When a Stranger Calls (1979) poster
1979
global pct
47.2

Film · 1979 · Films · 1970s

When a Stranger Calls

Scored from 163 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

47.2%
Global percentile
vs. all 52,376 ranked titles
38.9%
In-cohort percentile
Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles
41.8%
AI-adjusted percentile
163 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A teenage babysitter is terrorized by anonymous phone calls from a stranger asking if she has checked the children. Years after the night's horrifying revelation, the killer escapes from an asylum, and the detective who originally worked the case sets out to track him down before he can strike again.

When a Stranger Calls is a 1979 horror, mystery and thriller film.

2,405 other films from the 1970s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 163 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 164 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is When a Stranger Calls (1979) worth watching?

Cohort
Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles
Calibrated reviewers
163

Cohort: Films · 1970s

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