"The calls are coming from inside the house": is this phrase dead?
I am a member of Gen X. For most of my formative years (let's say, 1990 to 2005), there was a phrase we used: "the calls are coming from inside the house". This was a reference to the 1979 movie, "When a Stranger Calls", in which a murderer/stalker person is terrorizing and threatening a babysitter with threatening calls about the safety of the children and at the climax, it is revealed that the calls were from inside the house she was sitting at and she was in danger.
Culturally, the phrase has always been sort of a "the problem was internal" or "no, we didn't need any help fucking this up, we did it all by the power of our own bullshit". . .basically indicating that the problem we are/were trying to solve in that context was a product of our own process or choices.
I tried using this phrase recently with a co-worker who is about 30 years old and it did not land at all. So I would like to ask: is the phrase "the calls are coming from inside the house" culturally dead? Will younger people have no idea what I mean if I use this in conversation with younger colleagues or peers?