Which one is scarier this or the remake…..?
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HenryCW — 15 years ago(October 25, 2010 11:38 AM)
The original is much scarier than the remake (in additional to being a much better film). Carol Kane was much more convincing than Camilla Belle as the main actress and we can easily sense her loneliness and fear when she was left with the children in the house. Her large expressive eyes easily convinced us that she was genuinely afraid. In the remake, Camilla was not really left alone since the maid was there and the blond bimbo also visited her - though both were found dead later. When she received the calls, she looked perturbed or annoyed rather than frightened. She had the expression of someone who just remembered that she had forgotten to pick up the change in the supermarket.
Phone technology had changed a lot in the last three to four decades. If you have seen or used one of the old (and huge) desk dialing phone sets, their ring was so loud that it would have given you a start if it rang near you while you were concentrating on something. The ring of a new phone set is nothing compared to that not to mention the ring tone of a cell phone. As viewed today, the movie is sadly archaic. In the film, Camilla had a ridiculous array of desk phones and cell phones. More importantly, the idea of the killer calling from inside the house is by now an old movie clich that had been used and even parodied in many movies. The idea of a stranger making annoying calls is simply not scary. Now, it would be easy to trace the number and location of the call very quickly, and yet the remake decided to stretch the first 20 minutes of the original to a 90-minute film. Also, today, a girl would most likely just block calls from an unknown caller. What happens later is, of course, another story. -
FireWave — 14 years ago(August 08, 2011 02:03 PM)
The original is so stupid that I don't believe in that at all.
Camilla was way more teriffic in her role of Jill Jonshon. In original, the main one seemed to be forced, just boring. I didn't see that she was scary. Of course, she was, but it didn't come to me in any moment.
Original is not scary at all because timeline between first 20 minutes and the last 20 minutes is pretty awful and with the aknoweledge who is the killer, there is no tension, suspense, anything. Maybe they are thrills in five minutes in the beginning, but after that is just another movie with no one horror element.
And the end of the original is so predictable. I asked myself: " Is that going to end with just shooting the bad guy, without action in the final scene? " That happened just one minute after.
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Mithrandir-Olorin33 — 14 years ago(November 08, 2011 03:40 PM)
I'm so tired of people's unfair bashing of the Remake, I found it very Suspenseful and entertaining, and I relate to Camilla much more then Carol.
But allot of that is generational, I'm about Camilla's age, she's a Modern Young Adult like me, Carol was a late Baby Boomer like my parents.
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novastar_6 — 14 years ago(December 23, 2011 11:15 PM)
The original is so stupid that I don't believe in that at all.
Camilla was way more teriffic in her role of Jill Jonshon. In original, the main one seemed to be forced, just boring. I didn't see that she was scary. Of course, she was, but it didn't come to me in any moment.
Original is not scary at all because timeline between first 20 minutes and the last 20 minutes is pretty awful and with the aknoweledge who is the killer, there is no tension, suspense, anything. Maybe they are thrills in five minutes in the beginning, but after that is just another movie with no one horror element.
And the end of the original is so predictable. I asked myself: " Is that going to end with just shooting the bad guy, without action in the final scene? " That happened just one minute after.
I love remake much more and is better if you ask me.
Oh right, spoiled bratty little bitch gets to babysit for the Rockefeller family who lives in the big mansion at the far end of town miles from civilization because for all their money they don't have a nanny and have to take some walk-in off the street, who's only doing it because she needs 13 hours on her phone to yell at her boyfriend, and her parents want her to learn responsibility by watching TV and raiding the fridge when there is a baby sitter serial killer in the loose, is SOOOOO much more believable than normal teenager babysitting in a normal house in a normal town and somebody managed to break into the top floor and kill the kids, yeah that kind of stuff NEVER happens in real life. -
BatPopsicle — 9 years ago(June 23, 2016 12:48 PM)
Original is better by leaps and bounds. Remake is stupid, boring garbage. If the types of movies that you like are mindless slasher-fests with bad acting and lack critical thinking then watch the very boring remake. Just to point out, remake is not a slasher-fest but maybe that would have helped that movie.
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Sox575 — 9 years ago(July 16, 2016 04:30 AM)
This original is better by far. The remake was so dumb because the girl did
EVERYTHING
you don't do in a situation like that. It was even spoofed in SCREAM and then they do the remake of "When A Stranger Calls" and have the character go and do everything that a person in the present day wouldn't do because we have been inundated with horror movies from the 70s and 80s that follow a formula, so audiences already know the tricks, which made the movie more of a farce than a horror movie. I was actually rooting for the killer in the remake.
This is why it makes it very difficult for newer type horror movies to compete.
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