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One Missed Call Details

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In this remake of the Japanese horror film "Chakushin Ari" (2003), several people start receiving voice-mails from their future selves -- messages which include the date, time, and some of the details of their deaths. Read more

Starring Shannyn Sossamon, Edward Burns, Ana Claudia Talancon, Ray Wise
Director Eric Valette
Genres Audio Descriptive, Horror

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One Missed Call

In this remake of the Japanese horror film "Chakushin Ari" (2003), several people start receiving voice-mails from their future selves -- messages which include the date, time, and some of the details of their deaths.

Starring Shannyn Sossamon, Edward Burns, Ana Claudia Talancon, Ray Wise, Azura Skye, Johnny Lewis, Jason Beghe
Director Eric Valette
Studio WARNER BROS
Run time DVD: 1 hr 27 mins
Blu-ray: 1 hr 27 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate 15.gif
Genres Audio Descriptive, Horror
Language English, English Audio Description
Released DVD: 29 Sep 2008
Blu-ray: 29 Sep 2008
Production year: 2008
Format DVD
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  • 2 stars out of

    Ringuringu Sounds like my Japanese cell is going nuts again. Technohorror had its moment right around the Y2K... read more on Time Out

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  • 33 out of 33 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    NEAR MISS

    It is a bit of a shame that what started off as the occasional more or less good remake of a Japanese Horror film (The Ring and The Grudge I thought were great) led to this year's flood of so-so retreads.

    One Missed Call hit the big screens right next to the likes of The Eye and Shutter and you would be forgiven for thinking it did not really stick out much amongst the rest. Watching it on its own and isolated for the first time now, I think it's neither as good nor as bad as it might have been, but it provides standard horror/slasher/ghosty entertainment- pretty much by the rule book.

    The victims in this Ring-meets-Final Destination style slasher all receive a call (or voicemail even, since they- you guessed it- miss the call) from themselves in the nearby future, screaming and apparently heading for the off. As they get closer to the point in time from which the original call was sent, they start seeing creepy faces, weird things and finally what was heard on the voice message gets a live play.

    Needless to say, someone goes and investigates where all this started. In this case it's Shannyn Sossamon and Ed Burns, both likeable and talented enough, although I have a slight inkling that given their past passionate and excellent performances their direction was mostly 'Don't act too well now!'. But it works here ok.

    One Missed Call is very formulaic, but has a few novelties, little twists, some ascerbic mickey take out of the media and a creepy ring tone that will stick in your head.

    All in all not for those who want fresh and new material, but those who like a good old rule book slasher with some interesting ingredients will find this to be staple diet.

    SEE THIS IF YOU LIKED

    * THE RING

    * FINAL DESTINATION

    * FRAGILE

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  • 6 out of 6 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars

    Good Japanese scare

    Well, do you like the latest Japanese scare? This is for you then, I like it and it scared me, particularly toward the end, don't mind the plot, don't mind lots of things really..., but when i am watching a scary movie that's mostly what i want, the acting is not great? it's got subtitle for crying out loud! how well can we judge the acting in a Japanese scary movie with subtitle? it sound silly just saying it!, a bit more gory than the 'Grudge' and with some big question mark in the plot but hey, it scared me! that's what i wanted!!

    Ciao Rosie

      • A customer from Edgware
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