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celestialmega · 3 months

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When a Stranger Calls by Fred Walton.

#movie caps #film #movie #Fred Walton #When a Stranger Calls #When a Stranger Calls 1979 #When a Stranger Calls (1979)#carol kane

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fanofspooky · 1 month

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“Have you checked the children?”

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schlock-luster-video · 1 year

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On April 21, 1980 When a Stranger Calls debuted in Sweden.

Here's some new Carol Kane art!

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haveyouseenthishorrormovie · 4 months

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SUMMARY: Seven years after murdering two children and terrorizing their babysitter, a murderer escapes from the psychiatric facility intent on finishing the job.

mod L says: I expected this movie to have a lot more phone calls than it did.

#when a stranger calls (1979)#home invasion #1970s #united states #north american movie #horror #movies #poll

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cappedinamber · 4 months

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When a Stranger Calls (1979)

Directed by Fred Walton

Cinematography by Donald Peterman

#when a stranger calls #fred walton #donald peterman #1979

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horrorwaveofgrain00000 · 8 months

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#when a stranger calls #1979 #70s horror #horror movie #horror movies #horror classic #classic #old horror #horror

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bragascreenshot · 10 months

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#quando um estranho chama #filme #when a stranger calls #fred walton #1979 #mensageiro da morte #terror

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junkfoodcinemas · 27 days

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Black Christmas (1974) dir. Bob Clark When a Stranger Calls (1979) dir. Fred Walton

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slayerbuffy · 2 years

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“While this trope has faded away in modern cinema, it’s hold on the human psyche still remains. If Jaws made us fear sharks, these films made us fear our own phones. If it’s night, and you’re all alone, and you receive a call from someone you don’t know, that ring is a chill down your spine. If you choose to answer, the possibilities are endless. It could be a simple wrong number or a telemarketer, or maybe it’s the unknown, a faceless presence in the dark watching you, waiting to strike. That fear never goes away.” (x)

Black Christmas (1974) dir. Bob Clark When a Stranger Calls (1979) dir. Fred Walton A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) dir. Wes Craven Scream (1996) dir. Wes Craven Scream 2 (1997) dir. Wes Craven The Ring (2002) dir. Gore Verbinski The Babadook (2014) dir. Jennifer Kent

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ice-cream-writes-stuff · 1 year

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Can we get human wally? And puppet reader

[Sure!]

[I'm going through asks as fast as I can! I know I missed the party!]

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《Human Au》

Wally hums along to the music playing from the old stereo his gramps' had pulled out from storage. Idly gazing at the strangers and a few of the neighbors going through the boxes.

"Wally my boy! Do you mind getting out a couple of other boxes! I left them in attic!" His grandpa calls out, helping one of the customers move a item to their truck.

Wally throws him a thumbs up, heading inside the creaky red home as he heads up the stairs.

Carefully avoiding a few loose boards, Wally's pampador loses itself as he trips over some hidden fabric. The young man scowls at the sight of his lose hair dangling down his face. "I should've used the ultra-hairspray today.." He mumbled sourly, pushing his strands away as he sat up.

Glaring at the rotten fabric that tripped him, but paused when giving it a closer inspection.

Moving the old thing away, a giant box was placed there. Definitely tucked away from the prying eyes of anyone coming up to the attic, no longer though. Now that Wally discovered it.

Pulling the tape and flapes away, Wally couldn't belive what he saw!

A puppet!?

Hesitantly pulling it out to take a closer look, his heart became mush when gazing at the felt friend lost to time. Not noticing the bright red marker words saying "1979. Don't Remember." Scribbled on the sides of where you came from.

"Look at you, your color scheme, design, even your hair! Aren't you just darling~!" The young man laughed, wiping a bit of soot and dust off the puppet's clothes.

"WALLY! WALLY DARLING! YOU ALMOST DONE UP THERE!"

The blue-nette, startled by his grandmother's wail, he drops your cotton stuffed form back in the box. Quickly giving you a apologetic glance as he calls back down, saying he was fine. Swiping close to his cardigan as he glances over at the box you came from.

He'll look at later, he silently promises. Hiding your puppet-y self away in his guest room as he comes back down stairs. Completely forgetting what he needed to get from the attic.

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[Dun dun! I wanted to go for a classic 70s horror movie vibe! Did I nail it? Comments, reblogs, hearts, are super, and always appreciated! Thanks u!]

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animusrox · 7 months

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31 Days of Horror Marathon 2023 ↪ Day 18: When a Stranger Calls (1979) dir. Fred Walton

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celestialmega · 3 months

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When a Stranger Calls by Fred Walton.

#movie caps #film #movie #Fred Walton #When a Stranger Calls #When a Stranger Calls (1979)#When a Stranger Calls 1979 #carol kane

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fanofspooky · 2 months

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When a Stranger Calls

1979 • R • 1h37m

A psychopathic killer terrorizes a babysitter, then returns seven years later to menace her again.

#horror #horror movies #horror movie #movie #movies #poster #posters #movie posters #poster art #when a stranger calls #when a stranger calls 1979 #70s horror #70s horror movie #70s horror movies #70s

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schlock-luster-video · 2 years

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On November 14, 2006 When a Stranger Calls debuted on DVD in the Netherlands.

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issdisgrace · 5 months

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THE START OF BILLY HARGROVE AND HIS METAL HEAD BF RELATIONSHIP

WARNINGS: Use of the word fag, nothing else

A/N: There will be a part 2 in the future eventually.

You and Billy officially met when you two were paired together for a History project. Both of you hated the idea of having to work with each other because why wouldn’t you.

You two were complete opposites. You were a 6’2 metal head that wore corpse paint, band tees, and arguably way to many rings. While Billy was a 5’10 blonde hair blue eyed fuck boy that drove a loud ass car.

So it was no surprise that you both asked the teacher if there was anyway to get a different partner.

Unfortunately or rather fortunately the two of you couldn’t get out of doing the project together. While neither of you really cared all that much for your grades you both needed to pass the class and the project would count as 50% of your grade. So you both had to do it whether you liked it or not.

Anyway you begrudgingly both shared your information with one another and planned to meet up at your place that Friday to work on the project together.

Eventually Friday rolled around and Billy showed up late as always in his blue 1979 Chevrolet Camaro.

To say Billy didn’t want to be there was an understatement. Fortunately for him you had all the information the two of you would need to put together the project.

So things went smoothly and you two talked back and forth as you worked getting to know each other.

Which was when you both found out that you shared a genuine love of cars. This definitely helped your guys acquaintanceship and made the project go by quicker.

Anyway in the end the project only took you guys 3 hours which was less than what you both expected it to take. After you guys finished Billy left your place and that Monday you guys presented to the class before you both went back to strangers.

You two stayed strangers again for 2 months until Billy had a problem with his Camaro and didn’t want someone he didn’t know touching his baby so instead of taking it to a mechanic and knowing you worked on cars, he showed up at your house asking for you to look at.

You were of course surprised by this visit and even more surprised when he asked you to take a look at his Camaro. You of course agreed and took a look. It ended up being something real easy to fix so you.

So you took off your rings and handed them to Billy for safe keeping. As you bent over the Camaro fixing the problem.

Billy quietly watched you from the side as you worked on the Camaro. He took note of everything about you from your height and build to your clothes and corpse paint.

As he watched you he felt something grow in his chest. Something all too familiar. Something that he frankly hated. Something he wished to ignore specifically being in this shit hole of a town.

This town wasn’t all to found of people like him. People that liked same gender. But Billy would never call himself a fag sure he liked men but he also liked women. He had no clue what he was but he knew he liked you.

Maybe it was the fact you were so openly yourself and didn’t care what others thought of you or maybe was it the way you held yourself and talked. Who knows because Billy certainly didn’t.

As you were finish up Billy realized he needed to pay you for your work somehow. He wondered if you were gay and would go out on a date with him as payment.

“You’re all set. Your baby should be working at 100% again.”

“Thanks……Um would you maybe want to go out on a date with me. It’s all on me, I just want to um pay you back for your work.”

“Sure that’s fine with me. I’m free this Saturday if that good with you.”

“Yeah that works for me.”

“Well it’s a date then.”

#billy hargove #stranger things #billy hargrove x male reader #stranger things x male reader #billy hargrove x reader #stranger things x reader

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noneedtofearorhope · 1 year

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What does tankie mean?

On October 27th 1956, Peter Fryer, a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, and correspondent for its paper the Weekly Worker, arrived in Hungary. This was four days into an uprising of workers calling for worker controlled socialism. Factories had been taken over nationally by workers councils, in a demonstration of workers self-organisation that was unprecedented at the time, and the first strike on its scale in an Eastern-bloc country. On the 4th of November, Russian T54 tanks rolled into Budapest to suppress the uprising. Street fighting continued until the 10th November, although the workers councils held out for two months.

Fryer returned to the UK horrified by the Soviet repression he had seen, but his attempt to write about it for the Daily Worker was suppressed - the editors were sticking to the official USSR line that the entire uprising was a fascist counter-revolutionary plot and refused to publish anything contradicting that narrative. When Fryer wrote up his experiences anyway, he was expelled from the CPGB. Hungary 1956 split Communist parties across the world; many who had supported the USSR up until this point became disillusioned and split or left individually, while those who stayed loyal to the USSR earned the epithet 'tankies'.

After 1956, the USSR was to invade Czechoslovakia in 1968, then Afghanistan in 1979.

feels like people have started to pick up the term without knowledge of what it means and where it comes from. the linked article is set up like a FAQ, if you need to get more in the weeds with it, but above is the most relevant portion.

#anarchism #communism #socialism #tankie #tankies #anticapitalism #leftism

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