what should have be a routine babysitting gig at a secluded lake house turn into a night of terror and as high school student jill johnson ( camilla belle ) receive threaten phone call from a sadistic stalker and while try to stay one step ahead of him . the first 20 minute of the original film be pretty good but it be all downhill from there . the remake take those first 20 minute and stretch them into an 80 minute feature film . that a good idea because it eliminate everything that make the original bad . however and if they want this film to work more effectively then they should have hire a good lead actress and good director and writer etc . there no suspense and everything can be figure out long before it happen and it a very dull film since not much happens . at least there isn not much to sit through since it less than 90 minute . if this premise be to work and then the lead actress have to give a realistic performance . camilla belle give one of the bad performance i have ever see and throughout the whole movie and she seem to be read her line . you get a lead role in a hollywood film that will be view by million of people and you give no effort at all . why do they hire this girl . sure and she pretty but she can not act at all yet i suppose this would not matter to the target audience who will most likely eat this film up . the rest of the cast be bland and forgettable especially the woman who play the maid and rosa . even the stranger be lame and his line on the phone be not effective at all . this movie remind me of last year disappoint horror film boogeyman . that movie be a bunch of cheap scare and false alarm and when a stranger call be pretty much the same . jill enter a room because she hear a noise but it just a false alarm like a cat or the maid . this type of scene happens over and over again until finally after about 50 minute and the stranger appear . he have to be one of the lame killer ever . he carry no weapon and do not seem to pose much of a threat . the end be bad but it match the rest of the film so it doesn not really matter . the film be direct by simon west and he be really bad at build up suspense . he be use every cliché he could think of and the result weren not very good . the house be amaze and i will give the film credit for that . it be an isolated house so it be pretty creepy but that about the only good thing this film have to offer . in the end and if youre not a teenage girl then you should skip the movie . rating negative .