HELL NO. I would've gotten the hell out of there as fast as I could. I would've gone to the neighbors or ran all the way to the police precinct myself. Just like in an airplane.you put the oxygen mask on yourself FIRST.THEN you help others. Back in 1979 she probably made $2.00 per hour babysitting. NOBODY'S kids (plus only 2 bucks an hour) are worth getting killed for. In fact, this movie probably made a lot of people safer. It made girls think twice about babysitting.and it made parents think twice about having young babysitters who weren't wise enough to have that responsibility.

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When i was younger and I babysat, I'd never seen this movie. But I was the one who put the kids to sleep, and I would check on them every half hour or so.. If I had a creepy phone call, I would of grabbed the kids and bolted!
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Yes but she had no way of knowing that. The killer asked her to "check the children" presumably to get her upstairs so he could kill her too.

But wasn`t the children already dead when he called her the first time.

I would have checked the children, while I was carrying a fireplace poker or similar weapon just in case. Better safe than sorry I always say.

id take it as a nice reminder to check the bloody children!

Not necessarily. A few years back there was a special on TV on real killers like Hannibal Lector, the charismatic and the conniving, and the woman on TV was talking about one in particular, and one night she was at home and the phone rang, and it was him and he said he was right outside her front window to come and look. And that he knew where the things in her house were and where in the house she was and he kept telling her come look out the window, and she finally did, and he said 'got you'. He was locked up somewhere but he put on a very good act making it seem like he WAS right there watching her.

Haha my thoughts exactly!! Screw the children, if they're not mine or related to me, i'm getting the beep out of that house!!! LOL. Seriously, I bet a lot of people would and just don't want to admit it so they act all morale saying they would check them and that their safety comes first. Honestly, anyone who would go check them would be stupid and dead. If you were smart you would realize that the caller is in the house because he knows things and it's a set up so get the beep out of there! Plus if you get out you can go to safety and get help.

It's the FACT of what he says that's so scary. How on earth would he know that Jill is the babysitter, and that there are children in the house, if he weren't already there? That's what Jill doesn't stop to think about. She's never been to the house before; she's a new babysitter for this married couple. Either the caller would have been very familiar with the neighborhood (such as a close neighbor), or he's in the house itself. That's what she should have mentioned when she called the police the first time. It's not just that he's trying to scare her. He has knowledge that he shouldn't have.

I probably would if I did or didn't hear the legend because the children are my responsibility and their safety comes first. If I suspected that someone was in the house, well, I would have to watch my back the best I could until I got them to safety.

If the children were not mine and i was just babysitting someone elses i would just open the nearest window, climb through, then do a running bolt across the street.

I probably would have checked the children the first time the stranger asked me if I had.I thought Jill was ridiculous not to after the first time, until I realized she would have been killed if she had.
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I have to say I would check after some calls like that. I would just think it was someone trying to scare me or joking around. It would probably make me paranoid. then again, if I was babysitting someone else's kids, I probably would check them more often that she did in the film.
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If the legend never existed, either.
Aw, you wanted the movie to have a happy ending? Too bad!

Well you know, the reason I've always said that even though it's possible, it wouldn't happen when I babysat, it's because having heard this legend for a good number of years, if I babysat young kids, I would keep them downstairs in the living room with me until their parents came home.
Now. We're to assume this movie never existed, what about the legend? Are we allowed to know about the legend? If soand maybe even if it isn't, if I were in that position, I would call the police and have them come out to the house quick and search the place.

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