When a Stranger Calls

When a Stranger Calls (2006) is a horror thriller from director Simon West that you can watch online on iFILM. A high schooler takes a babysitting job at an isolated house, and a string of phone calls turns the evening into a nightmare.

Jill Johnson, played by Camilla Belle, arrives to mind two children at a sprawling glass mansion by a lake. The parents are out to dinner, the kids are asleep, and only her phone keeps the boredom at bay. Then the calls start coming in. A quiet voice keeps asking whether she has checked on the children. Jill writes it off as a prank at first. The calls grow closer and more personal until the police trace them and deliver the line that defines the film: the caller is inside the house. One mansion, one night, almost no other faces on screen.

The story is built on the old urban legend of the babysitter and the man upstairs, remaking the cult 1979 film but committing fully to the dread of waiting. West, who made Lara Croft and Con Air, leans on silence, empty hallways and the sense that you are not alone rather than on gore. Fans of tight, single-location siege horror in the vein of The Strangers will get what they came for. Stream When a Stranger Calls (2006) online on iFILM.