Oct. 26, 2022

This Day in Halloween: "When a Stranger Calls" -- based on an urban legend -- opens across the U.S. in 1979. / Illustration by David Ford

When a Stranger Calls opens across the U.S. in 1979. Based on “the babysitter and the man upstairs” urban legend from the late 1950s or early 1960s, and is famous for its influential 20-minute opening sequence.