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The babysitter and the man upstairs—also known as the babysitter or the sitter—is an urban legend that dates back to the 1960s about a teenage babysitter who receives telephone calls that turn out to be coming from inside the house. [1] The basic story line has been adapted a number of times in movies. [2]
The Sitter is a 1977 American short horror-thriller film directed by Fred Walton on which his 1979 feature film When a Stranger Calls is based. It is a suspenseful retelling of the classic urban legend of "The babysitter and the man upstairs" about a babysitter who is menaced by mysterious and frightening phone calls which are finally revealed to be coming from inside the house.
The film derives its story from the folk legend of "the babysitter and the man upstairs". [5] [6] The film was released in the United States on September 28, 1979 by Columbia Pictures. It was commercially successful, grossing $21.4 to $25 million at the box office against a $1.5 million budget, but it received a mixed-to-negative critical ...
Image credits: Ravenchef #3. Once my son looked at me and said "oh you're having a baby!" I had just found out I was expecting and hadn't told anyone. I asked him why he said that, and he just ...
The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs In Columbia, Missouri, Zeman and Mills investigate the legend of The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs, in which a babysitter is harassed and ultimately killed by a man already inside the house. Although there are no documented cases of serial killers who have targeted babysitters, Zeman and Mills describe how ...
The man, Piqua resident Michael Mayor, reportedly attacked the toddler, Vivian Gardner, on Dec. 5, after a babysitter left him alone with the toddler and other kids while taking some of the ...
The Ulster County District Attorney's office said a Highland man was sentenced to 56 years in prison after being convicted of rape ... Ulster County man sentenced 56 years for raping babysitter ...
Jill Johnson, a high school teenager who works as a babysitter at night, arrives to care for the children at a luxurious mansion in an isolated location. Their parents are leaving for the night, and the children are fast asleep. As she looks through the channels, she finds that a gruesome murder had taken place earlier that night.