One Missed Call (2008)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Following her friends' strange accidents, a woman comes to believe their claims of ghostly visions from the dead calling them on their phones which soon begins targeting her and joins up with a sympathetic detective to investigate the cause of the attacks and put a stop to it.This here turned out to be one of the more impressive and enjoyable remakes in the style. Among the great qualities here is the rather eerie and generally freaky atmosphere associated within the film as this one really plays off some really great suspenseful ideas. By utilizing the concept of the ghostly curse being passed on through the phones being called setting up some wonderful scenes here, from the thrilling scene on the bridge over the train tracks as the ghostly spirits move around her in great shock scenes, a fine sequence where the opening shot if a hand reaching out of a fish- pond to attack a victim and the rather fun highlight of the encounter at the movie studio where it appears during a hokey televised exorcism attempt that turns into an actual attack with the fog-enshrouded studio and mangled, distorted faces on the statues before the ghost appears in chilling fashion which becomes the best part of the whole film. As well, once the film moves into the investigation of the calls and begins tracing the origins back to the hospital incident that provides the source of his rampage this one gets quite a lot of fun here where that gathering and investigating becomes quite fun as the move that comes out about the incident the better the mystery works where it really sells a rather creepy setup that's perfectly in tune with a ghost rampage. In addition to the great detective work, all alongside the specter of the timeline of her death approaching for even more suspenseful matters, there's the great confrontation in the creepy, chilling abandoned hospital that looks incredibly dark and perfectly suited for a ghostly hideout as the fire-scared hallways certainly gives the crumbling location and dark shadows a great sense of foreboding atmosphere that comes off even better with all the ghosts hanging around before the tormenting action in the hallways leading to the confrontation in the corridors off the side of the room, where a chilling resolution in the air-ducts that settles the film's mystery angle in a pretty chilling manner. All told, these here are what make the film quite enjoyable though it does have a few minor, rather incidental flaws present. The biggest problem here is the tacked on finale, which is lame on all accounts not just for the utterly dreadful CGI used trying to make such a weak-looking being as intimidating which is a big part of this but also how it continues on when it's wholly unnecessary since the plot was already resolved, making this feel tacked on for no reason. Along with the rather tame rating holding back the kills and gore, it's what really holds this one back.Rated PG-13: Violence and Language.

Mercifully this slog put a death knell in the Asian horror remake craze that went for about six years. Sadly this Asian horror boom took a hit because of the interior American remakes galvanizing the marketplace at the time. While there are certainly good horror movies from Japan, Tawain, and the like, their increasing popularity in the early 2000s was set back by audiences tiring of Hollywood flooding theaters with rotters like One Missed Call. I read that the director didn't watch Miike's film nor would he allow the cast to, either. He should have...he could have used some pointers. Shannyn Sossamon is a pretty and emphatic actress but she has a lot of unflatteringly bad CGI, poorly orchestrated paranormal shenanigans, bland characterizations from actors undermined by underwritten victim friends, and boring plot (not to mention a dud of a reasoning behind why the phone terror takes place, a chain of future death messages to Sossamon's friends involving a fire at St Luke's, a nagging ringtone that is about as obnoxious as the jingle of Silver Shamrock from Halloween III, possible abuse towards a girl which could result from the mother or her asthmatic sister, cop Ed Burns' sister who was a nurse that knew a blond child with knowledge of the possible supernatural culprit, and a "nanny cam" hidden in a teddy bear) to work opposite, stranding her in a barren wasteland of bad, soulless crud.Somehow the phone ghoul can make windows break, push a victim into an oncoming train, cause a beam to impale a victim thanks to a construction disaster (what is this Final Destination???), use a knife to stab a victim through a door, strangle a victim in a church after causing statues of Jesus and Mary to come alive to spook her, and leave behind marbles in the victims' mouths. If this was shot tongue in cheek perhaps there might be some fun to be had, but this is all serious and empty. The thing about Miike is his films are made with a sense of jolly madness, and there's heart behind his direction. This Hollywood cash grab is DOA from the get-go. Meagan Good is dragged into her pond by a hand where she quite literally swims with the fishes. It isn't imaginative or shot with any flair. This film is just a dead fish flapping out of water, sucking air.

Derivative to Say the Least. This Hodgepodge of Better Films can Only be Recommended for Horror Movie Completest.Jump Scares to the Extreme only make the Back Story, which is the Movie's Best Part, feel Cluttered and Cliché Driven. The sometimes Creepy Moments are also rendered as Throwaways because the thing just can't figure out what works and what doesn't.Child Abuse is woven into the Script and makes for some Interesting Commentary and if that Thread was Cultivated Completely and the Silly Stuff, like Exorcising a Cell Phone was Totally Discarded, it could have been a more than Standard J-Horror Remake.It is Refreshing to See Cell-Phones get Stomped, Snapped in Half, Kicked, and Thrown in the Sewer. Hoorah.There remains among the Missteps enough to make it Worth a Watch with Low Expectations and Disregarding Knee-Jerk Reactions to Foreign Remakes and a Tolerance for Bad Directorial Decisions. There is Half a Good Story Contained.

OK, that's the last time I take a chance on a movie with that low a score.This might be the longest 87 minute movie I have ever seen. You know when you are just waiting for a movie to be over? Yeah, that's not a good thing, agree?This movie is absolutely not scary. It totally fails on creating tension. Someone is walking down the street and, oh, look! a creepy ass face.. Huh. Oh, there's another one! In the middle of the day - better just keep walking! Yes, the faces are kind of creepy, awfully CG-looking, but creepy, but they do not scare. And another thing, these people are seeing these creepy faces and stuff, and never do they ever react like a normal human being. Do they tell any one? Nope. A normal person would go: "whoah, I just saw a ghostly super creepy face in the window, what the hell"!? Instead they just, uhm, you know, keep totally quiet. Even when someone else is right there with them. The pacing is strange, the CG is poor, the story is.. it could have been cool, but it's wasted. The movie does slightly redeem it self towards the end, slightly though. It's still pretty darn crappy. The director could have gone for creepy, chose crappy.There are a couple of scenes that are, well, not terrible, I'll give the movie that, but that's not much though.Skip this one. I think I'll check out the original sometime. The director and actors never even saw it, so it's probably very different and much better.