"I read books, not movies." This is the motto of your typical American moviegoer, who would rather jump out a window than watch a film in any language other than English.
If there's one type of film that I really can't be bothered with, it's boring modern Asian ghost stories. But if there's one type of film that tends to be even worse it's American remakes of boring Asian ghost stories.
Interesting concept. So this movie is based off a Japanese legend about a missed call.
A very visually-pleasing traditional J-Horror flick, with Miike's signature criticism of the state of family and domestic decaying, without delving deeper philosophically nor psychologically of course.What makes most of the Japanese horror film industry appealing is its capability of delivering suspense and actually building a compelling atmosphere while not relying much on seat-jumpers and Hollywood scares, as well as keeping up with non-linear time-line, fragmentation, and other experimental techniques.
After her friends start mysteriously dying off, a young woman finds that her friends are being called on their cell-phones broadcasting their death screams from the future through a ghostly curse featuring a thought-dead girl coming back for revenge through technology and races to stop the curse that is wiping them all out.There was some good stuff here when this one tried to.
This Japanese horror film - directed by Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer, Dead or Alive, The Happiness of the Katakuris and a few other movies that will either upset you or make you happy) and written by Minako Daira (who wrote all three films in the series) - is all about a psychology student named Yumi Nakamura (Ko Shibasaki, Battle Royale) whose friends begin getting messages from the future that gives the time and date of their deaths. And then - you guessed it - they die.
Derivative to Say the Least. This Hodgepodge of Better Films can Only be Recommended for Horror Movie Completest.
One Missed Call was directed by Eric Valette, written by Andrew Klavan who adapts from the novel by Yasushi Akimoto, and stars Shannyn Sossamon, Edward Burns, Ana Claudia Talancon, Ray Wise, Azura Skye, Johnny Lewis, and Jason Beghe. It's about a girl who receives a message containing her date of death trying to save her friends, who have also received them, from their incoming deaths.
I have not seen the original this was based off and I've heard its actually good.Do not mistake this film for good.
