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One Missed Call | 
 enlarge | Director: Eric Valette
Actors: Shannyn Sossamon, Edward Burns, Ana Claudia Talancon, Ray Wise, Azura Skye
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  37 reviews
Sales Rank: 7574
Format: Color, Full Screen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 87
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 113912
UPC: 085391139126
EAN: 0085391139126
ASIN: B00151QYOO
Theatrical Release Date: January 4, 2008
Release Date: April 22, 2008
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Yet more modern technology falls prey to the influence of eeeeevil spirits in One Missed Call, a horror flick following firmly in the footsteps of The Ring, Pulse, and other remakes of Japanese creepfests. Good-looking young people are receiving voice-mails that prefigure their gruesome deaths; Beth (Shannyn Sossamon, 40 Days and 40 Nights) and Jack (Ed Burns) race against time to find the source of this cell-phone curse, leading them to a dark and treacherous burnt-out hospital. Little is fresh here--One Missed Call apes every other Japanese horror remake, using corpse makeup, blurry images at the corner of the screen or just out of sight, lots of ambient rattles and gasps, spooky-looking children, and the slow, trembling turn towards a ringing phone... which stopped being scary about four or five movies ago. But for fans of this particular subgenre, One Missed Call may evoke the warm, enjoyable familiarity that devotees of 1970s horror feel towards the repetitive output of Hammer Films. Ray Wise (Reaper, Twin Peaks) has a bit of fun as a cynical TV producer; comedian Margaret Cho has such a brief, throwaway part as a skeptical cop that one wonders if the rest of her role is on the cutting room floor; and Meagan Good (Brick, Stomp the Yard) gets prominent billing but is hardly in the movie at all. --Bret Fetzer
Product Description
It happens to one. Then another. And another. College students discover eerie voicemail messages on their cell phones. Each call comes from the near future. Each call has the chilling voice of the student during his or her last moments alive. And each call comes true. Terror is One Missed Call away in this got-your-number shocker based on the hit Japanese thriller Chakushin ari. Does the viral spree of calls have a single source? Is there something that links the victims? Psych student Beth Raymond (Shannyn Sossamon) and detective Jack Andrews (Ed Burns) scramble for answers. And they?re working fast. Because Beth just discovered an ominous message.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR/PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER UPC: 085391139126 Manufacturer No: 113912
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 Yet Another Not-So-Scary J-Horror Remake August 9, 2008
In "One Missed Call" a group of young Americans receive a strange message. It is a voicemail apparently recorded by themselves at the moment of their own deaths that will happen in a few days. The premise is surely unbelievable, even absurd at times, but still interesting, I admit, but you have to be very careful in turning it into a film because this kind of story becomes silly on screen pretty easily. Sadly this is exactly what happens in the remake version of "One Missed Call."
Shannyn Sossamon is Beth, whose friends start to die in a bizarre way one after another. With a help from a police detective (Ed Burns), she tries to find out the truths behind the cursed calls, and stop the chain of deaths once and for all.
So far, so good. The problem with "One Missed Call" is that everything these characters say and do looks very silly. I cannot reveal too much about the details, but all you have to know is that none of the characters act rationally. One example: while terribly scared, all the would-be victims prefer to be alone. Also, it is not thrilling to see again the cliched horror techniques like watching shadows silently moving. And the film's latter part and conclusion is just a mess.
As you know, this is a remake of the 2003 Japanese horror of the same title directed by Takashi Miike. The idea of a curse transmitted through cell phones had already become familiar by the time the original was released (Hollywood version of "The Ring" was released in October 2002 in USA). Considering this fact, Miike did a fine job, toning down his usual over-the-top directing style to create several chilly set-pieces.
Unfortunately French-born director Eric Valette seems not to know what he really wants to do. The 2008 remake doesn't have enough gore or violence (that is not bad itself); it doesn't have atmosphere, twists and turns in story, dark humor or witty cultural references or social satire. (Miike did include all of them in his original.) New "One Missed Call" has none of them. The remake (first half especially) only copies its source material scene by scene without adding anything, and that is neither original nor scary.
 Pretty creepy for a PG-13 movie! August 8, 2008
I don't know what everybody's problem is. I guess these reviewers need a lot of sadistic gore (via Saw)to deem a horror movie watchable. OK, when I finally got to rent the movie (it seemed to always be out), I was disappointed to discover it was PG-13. So, after disappointing unrated junk like Dead Silence, I went in with very low expectations, and was delightfully surprised. This movie was creepy and tense and had many disturbing images and didn't have to resort to cheap (or expensive) gore effects to tell the story. And that haunting ringtone is still with me! A psych student and a cop race against time to find the source of a cell phone caller who calls intended victims from a dead person's cell with their own voices at their last moments of life...a day or two before it happens. (Yes, it seems that Japanese horror formulas follow the whole I saw/heard this and now have 24 hours to live). I will not spoil the movie with details, but it is very creepy and some of the images are sure nightmare-inducing. If you are bothered by gore but like a scary movie, I recommend this one. The acting is good, and it's always nice to see Twin peaks' Ray Wise acting again. My only complaint is that the victims aren't DRIVERS on their cell phones. At least they would deserve the abuse!
 MISSED my mailbox... August 3, 2008
Oye, Took TWO WEEKS to get here when my other items ordered same day arrived on the next business day or two. Good movie though and glad i ordered it...
 Ouch July 21, 2008
Ok, lets see what we got here;
Bad Actors Check
Terrible Plot Check
Plenty of Yawns Check
87 minutes ill never get back Check
Yep, looks like its all here...the making of a suck fest
Dont Waste your time.
Pretty generic but still creepy July 17, 2008
Ok so the movie had plot holes and a pretty funny scene where the poor cat can't even avoid the evil but other than that it did creep the ______
out of me. I put my phone to silent after watching this!
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