Product Details

• Actors: Rebekah Kochan
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: The Asylum
• DVD Release Date: February 12, 2006
• Run Time: 87 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000EQ5V22
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #203,407 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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WHEN A KILLER CALLS - DVD Movie

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Actually not that bad for a blatant ripoff movie, July 28, 2008

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DaveP "dpags" (USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: When a Killer Calls (DVD)

This is one of those movies from the studio known to put out similarly titled and themed DVD's to conveniently coincide with the real studio release movie. In this case we get When a Killer Calls, ripping on the Sony remake of When A Stranger Calls (2006). The movies are about an isoltaed teen babysitter getting terrorized by a prank caller. While Stranger was rated PG-13, Killer is unrated offering up graphic violence, nudity and language. Killer is obviously low budget, with passable-at-best special effects for the gore, though the acting is surprisingly decent for the most part. The storyline differs just enough from Stranger to keep them from getting sued, but it's your standard cliche slasher fare. I was expecting MUCH worse though.

The disc quality itself is pretty bad. Picture quality is anamorphic widescreen though it's looks like VHS with it's fuzzy and color muted picture. Oddly enough the behind-the-scenes featurette looks a thousand times better than the movie. Maybe it was a stylistic choice on the director's part? Regardless, don't go in expecting much in that area. Sound is decent and there's a few extras including the previously-mentioned behind-the-scenes, some outtakes, previews and a commentary track.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars 1.5 STARS: "When a Lame and Pointless Ripoff Occurs", August 23, 2009

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HorrorMan "HM" (The Marsten House) - See all my reviews

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What happens when you have a ripoff of an all-time classic horror movie named "When A Stranger Calls" (closer to the inferior remake than original classic though), really bad almost laughable acting, rigid action, rather amateurish graphic violence, and really cheap production values? Well, the answer of course would be "When A Killer Calls".

"When A Killer Calls" does not even attempt to differentiate itself from "When A Stranger Calls". Although as I said, the feel of this movie is closer to the remake of "When A Stranger Calls" (which was not good in and of itself) as opposed to the classic. The creators of "When A Killer Calls" very obviously felt that what was missing from "When A Stranger Calls" was the lack of on-screen violence and violence towards children. To each his own, but I beg to differ with them on that issue. One of the darkly magical qualities about the original "When A Stranger Calls" was the movie's ability to be so incredibly suspenseful and scary with almost zero on-screen violence. When will they all learn? A great scary movie is all about a good story, establishing mood and atmosphere, suspense, style mixed with substance, creativity, setting and good characters. If you take out the babysitting urban legend (which is a good story), basically, "When A Killer Calls" has nothing to offer...certainly none of the qualities that are essential to a good horror movie that I just mentioned above.

So, to categorically compare "When A Killer Calls" to the original "When A Stranger Calls" is not even constructive because there is no comparison. The original "When A Stranger Calls" is scary whereas this generic regurgitated rubbish is not. As I eluded to, "When A Killer Calls" contains very little suspense, no twists (of any significance) and nothing to call its own unless you like to see violence towards children; and to hear a very fake knife sound ripping into flesh; and finally to have your oh-so common lame sex scene between two time-killing pointless body bag stuffers. Well, if that's worth your money, then knock yourself out, but that's about all there is to "When A Killer Calls". Basically, this movie just succeeded in taking the scary out of this very effective urban legend and replacing it with some rather lame attempts to shock and disturb. 1.5 STARS for this particular lame and bland version of an effective urban legend (hard to screw this up but they did) made famous by "When A Stranger Calls", and zero to the movie itself. A better name to call this movie would be "When a Lame and Pointless Ripoff Occurs".

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good movie, March 20, 2010

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This review is from: When A Killer Calls (DVD)

I was told this was a Campy movie of a copy of when a stranger calls.What is a campy movie,anyway? It has cute guys, Pretty girls running around,or standing there in fright.I couldn't wait to see someone kick the killers butt.Girl power!Plus,why didn't the girl turn the killer in,call the police when he made advances on her in the past? I'm still waiting for a sequel to when a stranger calls the remake.But,this'll do for now.I love the guy from "One tree hill"Robert Buckley, being in it.Just like "A stranger calls",the teenager babysitting gets a series of phone calls and finds out their coming from inside the house!!!!When A Killer Calls