Pg-13 horror movies are aimed at teens. No thank you, I'll watch real horror movies.

Yes, it's an old idea and such, and the film adds nothing new...but it's still a good thriller, it sure got me scared! However, the scenes are a bit repetitive, and some may wish for some more action/fighting in this movie instead of the gal just looking around and breathing heavily. Either way, it's worth a watch...no real gore, just thrills.

Okay. This movie is rated PG-13 although it is much scarier than some R rated horror movies. It is mainly scary because this could happen to anyone in any house, and the fact that the movie is not filled with guns and just sheer terror makes this one hell of a roller coaster. The scariness could be maybe 9/10. The violence is quite gross but nothing really bad, just a man gets his hand pinned to the floor by a fireplace poker (shown 100%) and Jills hair gets pulled (maybe a quarter of her hair) and is ripped off her head. The sex is nothing (many nude paintings and statues but non-explicit)and the langauge is extremely mild. Scariness 9/10 Violence 3/10 Nudity/Sex 2/10 Language 2/10 Total 16/40 Rounded 4/10

When a stranger calls was a supposedly not scary movie, seeing as it only had a PG-13 rating. But this was one heck of a scary movie for a PG-13. I took my 12 year old and she loved it, but was terrified to go into her room for a few days. Violence is the only concern because a teenager stabs a man with a fireplace stick and we hear a crunch. But everything else is a PG movie material.

The original version, with Carol Cane was very different. The first 15 minutes were what this whole remake was about. The publicity people were morons, (everyone knows the guy was in the house!). Still, I jumped a couple times. The part that kind of "got" me was the lights and how they come on when someone walks into a room. The other basic horror aspects (helpless girl, refrences to parties drinking ect., dead bodies inside house, police not helping much) go a little annoying. Still, I found that the ending was a little corney, I mean, come on, haven't we all seen that coming?

When a Stranger Calls wasn't an awful film it just wasn't....scary. At all. The premise could have made a very freaky and intense movie, but this somehow isn't frightening on any level. The cat jumps out of places, the refridgerator makes noises, and the stalker finally reveals himself in about the last 15 minutes, and that's about all that happens. This almost could have been rated PG! Good for kids 11+