Unknown Caller (2006)

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Movie
German title Unknown caller
Original title When a Stranger Calls
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2006
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Simon West
script Jake Wade Wall
production John Davis ,
Wyck Godfrey ,
Ken Lemberger
music James Dooley
camera Peter Menzies Jr.
cut Jeff Betancourt
occupation
synchronization

Unknown Caller (Original title: When a Stranger Calls ) is an American horror thriller from 2006 . The Director led Simon West , the writer wrote Jake Wade Wall . The main role was played by Camilla Belle .

The film is a remake of the horror film The horror comes at 10 (Original: When a Stranger Calls ) from 1979 and is based on the saga The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs .

action

Jill Johnson, a teenager, takes a babysitting job with the Mandrakis family, who live in an out-of-town villa. In the evenings she receives disturbing calls where someone can be heard breathing heavily on the phone. At first, she suspects that they are jokes from Cody, a friend of her ex-boyfriend Bobby. However, when she realizes on further calls that she is being watched, she calls the police. With the help of an interception circuit , she later finds out that the stranger is calling from another telephone in the house. Shortly thereafter, Jill finds her friend Tiffany murdered in the bathroom, who had previously visited her in the villa and who had then made her way home. Jill decides to flee the house with the children, but is surprised by the stranger in the children's room. Together with the two children, she manages to escape the window. After she discovers the dead housekeeper Rosa in the pond of the property, a fight with the unknown ensues, in which Jill finally incapacitates the attacker and thus saves the children from worse. After the police arrive, the unknown intruder is arrested and the injured Jill is taken to the hospital.

Reviews

Peter Hartlaub wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle on February 3, 2006, that nothing could "save" the film. He described the casting of the main role with Camilla Belle as "adequate", but emphasized mainly its visual advantages. He found the behavior of the stranger who would not arm himself implausible.

Joe Leydon wrote in Variety magazine on February 3, 2006 that the film implemented the “clever concept” of the original in an “undifferentiated manner”. At the beginning he described some scenes as "subtle". Leydon praised production designer Jon Gary Steele and the three-story house as the setting for the horror film.

Matt Singer wrote in The Village Voice magazine on Jan. 31, 2006 that the plot was "thin" and "drawn out". The film would be "Hollywood-style" while the 1979 film would be an experiment.

The lexicon of international films judged: "The prologue of the horror film classic" The horror comes at 10 "(1978), which is laboriously extended to the length of a feature film, gives away its gloomy atmosphere all too quickly to several lengths and uninspired horror stereotypes."

backgrounds

The film was released in the United States on February 3, 2006. By March 19, 2006, it grossed $ 47.86 million in US cinemas .

Publications

country title premiere Age rating
United States When a Stranger Calls February 3, 2006 PG-13
Argentina Cuando un extraño llama 4th July 2006 13
Canada Terreur sur la ligne July 5, 2006 PG (Ontario)
Philippines Bell wrestler April 26, 2006 PG-13
Italy Chiamata da uno sconosciuto June 30, 2006 VM 14
Spain Cuando llama un extraño June 2, 2006 -
Hungary Ismeretlen hivás June 15, 2006 16
Greece Kravges agonias August 4, 2006 -
Brazil Quando to Estranho Chama March 31, 2006 14th
Germany Unknown caller June 15, 2006 16
Turkey Telefondaki Yabanci April 14, 2006 -

synchronization

The film was dubbed by PPA Film GmbH Pierre Peters-Arnolds, Munich. The diaglogbook and dialogue direction are by Pierre Peters-Arnolds .

figure actor Voice actor
Jill Johnson Camilla Belle Shandra Schadt
Stranger Tommy Flanagan Ekkehardt Belle
Scarlet Tessa Thompson Kathrin Gaube
Bobby Brian Geraghty Johannes Raspe
Mr. Johnson Clark Gregg Claus Brockmeyer
Dr. Mandrakis Derek de Lint Walter von Hauff
Kelly Mandrakis Kate Jennings Grant Dagmar Heller
Officer Burroughs David Denman Pierre Peters-Arnolds
Officer Lewis John Bobek Hubertus von Lerchenfeld
pink Raisin 'Ace' Hatem Maria Boehme
Detective Hines Steve Eastin Norbert Gastell
Tiffany Katie Cassidy Leoni Kristin Oeffinger
Telephone voice of the stranger Lance Henriksen Ekkehardt Belle

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for unknown callers . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2006 (PDF; test number: 106 066 K).
  2. ^ Critique by Peter Hartlaub
  3. ^ Review by Joe Leydon
  4. ^ Critique by Matt Singer
  5. ↑ Unknown caller. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 27, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ↑ dubbing , German dubbing index