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While at the restaurant, Jill gets a telephone call and hears Duncan's voice asking again: "Have you checked the children?" The police escort Jill back home to discover that everything there is fine. Upon hearing about the incident, Garber alerts Clifford.
A horror film about a babysitter who receives threatening phone calls from a killer inside the house. Seven years later, the killer escapes and targets the babysitter's family again.
Oct 4, 2019 · When a Stranger Calls - Have You Checked the Children?: Jill (Camilla Belle) gets a creepy call from The Stranger (Lance Henriksen).
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The fridge was stocked. The children were tucked into bed. But then the phone rings and an ominous voice asks, "Have you checked the children?" Locked in with the lights out and the...
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- 2086
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The legend details a teenage girl who is watching television at night while babysitting after the children have been put to bed upstairs. The phone rings; the unknown caller tells her to "check the children".
Oct 26, 1979 · When a Stranger Calls: Directed by Fred Walton. With Carol Kane, Rutanya Alda, Carmen Argenziano, Kirsten Larkin. A psychopathic killer terrorizes a babysitter, then returns seven years later to menace her again.
Thanks to its chilling “Have you checked the children?” curtain raiser, the film became a substantial cult hit on TV and home video and is now the most famous incarnation of a common urban legend about a babysitter being harassed with phone calls from a killer inside the house.
