10 Most Messed Up Horror Movie Openings

Time for more child death, I’m afraid!

This film is not only famous in its own right, but is also the thing that inspired Wes Craven’s 1996 masterpiece, Scream. Yes, he may have been inspired by the way he hated the rest of the film after its intro, but that’s besides the point - the opening is still killer.

Babysitter Jill Johnson is just chilling after putting the children to bed when she receives a weird phone call. The caller asks her if she has checked on the children, which for some reason she takes as a prank call rather than being really freaked out. Well it doesn’t take long after that for the situation to escalate and Jill to lose her cool.

The calls keep coming, gradually getting more aggressive and threatening. Jill decides to call the police, who tell her to keep the caller on the phone so they can track his location. Have you worked out where this is going yet? The call is traced - you guessed it - to inside the house.

All the while, the killer has been right there with Jill and has already offed both children before sparing her life. She’s alive but the trauma, I’m sure, will never die.