One Missed Call (Remake)
| release date | January 4 2008 |
| studio | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| director | Eric Valette |
| writer | Andrew Klavan |
| starring | Ed Burns, Shannyn Sossamon, Ana Claudia Talancon, Ray Wise, Azura Skye, Johnny Lewis, Jason Beghe, Margaret Cho |
| site | onemissedcallmovie.warnerbros.com |
| trailer 1 | Trailer #1 |
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I was excited to see this movie b/c it was the 1st 2008 horror movie. To be honest I thought this movie was way better than other japanese remakes like the grudge. the grudge sucked. I know i am going 2 get yelled at for this but i really enjoyed pulse and dark water also!!
I liked one missed call because it had a good story, no poor actors(Sarah Michelle Gellar-Grudge) and, on some parts this movie really freaked me out. It made me jump and, when that dead body grabbed Beth near the end me and the rest of theater screamed. This was one of the best movie experiences I ever had and, went 2 see this movie again the next day This movie was so far the japanese remake i’ve seen!
I am getting sick of these bad Japanese (Asian) horror remakes!
Horrible.
My friends and I went to watch this at the dollar theater (a theater where movies already on video are shown). We didn’t have enough bucks to spend $7+ each at the regular theater. We had already seen that boring I AM LEGEND (where the only character that inspires sympathy is the dog), so we decided to give ONE MISSED CALL a try. What did we have to lose, $1.25?
The moment it started, it was as if I was watching another THE GRUDGE, only this was confusing. Yeah, I know, THE GRUDGE had put the confusion bar really high, but this crap beat it still.
Why does everyone in the movie have a boost? And what’s up with the guy who got killed Final Boostination style? This movie, I guess, had to pay extra money to the MPAA to get a PG-13 rating.
I Thought it was okay until the end destroye it.
This movie is very good(but not scary)the only problem is that is very similar to the grudge,the ring and a PG13 final destination.
Keep the japanese remakes coming cause this was awesome with scares,deaths and alot of ghosts so dont be harsh its just an american remake of course it cant be compared with the original but damm this was great
It doesnt stands a chance against the original but this is one of my all time favorite horror movies i thing i liked the most was the eerie tone that appears in the movie.(so scary)
Well, it was going good until after about the third death… then, it all goes downhill as a suspenseless and death-free next 45 minutes destroys every bit of interest one might have in the movie. Horrible pacing, and Shannyn Sossamon is absolutely terrible (as she was in Catacombs, and that stupid show Moonlight).
trash
i think the movie was good but it had some bad moments
pretty good
despite the fact that i could kinda already guess what was gonna happen, i thought it was pretty decent. it kept my attention butttt it could have been better. it was ok. wouldnt buy it though. only good for theatres.
Could have been better.
Movie could have been so much better if directed by a master like James Wan or the original, Takashi Miike. I liked this movis alot, in my opinion, one of the best I’ve seen. The only reason I saw this because back in 2004 I saw the original on DVD at walmart. But wut really interested me was this amazing poster.
This and the Prom Night remake are the worst horror films of 2008.
I had to stifle a yawn as the lead female character began to fall for the lead male character. Yuck! And the way all the “clues” came together and suddenly all made sense at the end… Please. This was just a really crappy clone of The Ring trying to cash in… I’m glad it was a free rental — I wouldn’t be happy if I had spent money on it!
I really cant believe i liked this movie at the beginning because when i watched a second time with a friend we were laughing and saying oh look the grudge 3 because the ghosts were so unoriginal and weird and by weird i mean stupid and the acting except for Ana Claudia Talancon were horrible i dont know why but Shannyn Sossamon was so annoying i like wanted to enter the screen and punch her on the her ugly face oh and the story was so stupid a ghst killing by cellphones just because she died of an asthma attack and she called her mom and didnt answered its like watching the rings story but stupid so dont even give this movie a chance.
This was an okay movie. I hated Prom Night and Shutter, but One missed call is okay. It’s not a good film, but it’s not bad. The scares are cheap, the acting is mediocre, and the ending is bad. Overall if you want to see One missed call (2008) go for it. If not it’s really nothing new and your not missing much. I give One missed call a 5 out of 10 or 2 1/2 skulls out of 10.
Sad to say, but the best thing about this movie is the poster. Kudos to the designer. But the film itself is a waste of time, not scary or even believable. I guess I was expecting much more after seeing the original Japanese movie, which was by far better in every way. 2/10
Garbage. I would like to point out that an American remake of an Asian horror film, has never been good…EVER. The Ring, Pulse, and The Grudge are a few of the more noteworthy stinkers. They all carry the same PG-13 rating, which I hold firm in my belief that that is a death warrant for any horror film. If there was a point to this plot, I missed it somewhere. There is nothing even semi remarkable that is worth my mentioning.
This movie just sucks.
This movie was hilarous. I was laughing through like the whole thing. Especially the three eyed lady with the deformed baby. It was so stupid!
i so wanted to enjoy this….and there are a couple of things that are enjoyable about it…i thought ray wise was good but underused really and i didnt see the point of his charachter at all ?
i just thought the film was like a poorer imitation of the ring, but there isnt really anything there…the charachters are underdeveloped and this prevents all emotional involvment with the charachters like in the ring…just a poor poor film…not the worst horror movie ive ever seen…but i dont think i would recommend this
This was criticised for not being original but what they obviously didn’t realise was this is a REMAKE. It follows the same plot as the original in every way and those people who faulted it for that were faulting the Tai version. It reallt had no scares and was relatively boring. The best part was that it got straight into the horror instead of making you learn about the characters. One certain scene in the film captured my attention. The scene where where one of the daughters of the ghost was cutting her sister was breathtaking.
The acting was not on a high mark but was satisfying to a degree. What Shannan (Beth) failed to do was be realistic. It was obvious that her screams were “put on” and it was not an amazing role to act.
Overall it had some visual effects that looked real but it lacks in scaring the audience. It will not be a film that will go down as a memorable of 2008.
My rating is 2/5
This movie was one of the worst films ever made. I had no idea what I was watching but thought, hey lets give it a try. WTF! It was just plain bad. It had so many pointless scenes and elements that it probably could have been 30 minutes shorter and people could have been disappointed just that much sooner. One of the more ridiculous elements of the film was the letter from the main character’s mother, they had entire scenes revolving around these letters, but do they open it? Do they resolve any aspect of this major element in developing the main character? NO THEY DON’T! They just waste time showing it and do nothing with it. Anyway, this movie was awful and should not be watched by anyone. I would rate it lower than a 2 if I could.
One of the WORST effects, plot, acting, horror remake, horror movie, movie i have ever suffered.
It has everything a movie lover hates.
May this film BURN.
this movie was horrible, i was waiting around for this for so long. i was uber x-cited, and it had margaret cho in it. and i say “in it” very loosely cause she basicially had no role at all that was worth it.
basically if u liked prom night, shutter, or pulse then u will love this
but if u actually have taste and wanna watch a horror movie, i suggest skipping this one and never looking back, cause this is one phone call i with i missed.
wrong actors, bad directing, horrible deaths…this was a horrible remake…leave the Japanese horror to the Japanese film makers!
these teen approved movies are the worst thing to ever happen to Earth and beyond,
leave the japanese shit in japan all that j-horror makes me wanna throw up on a child and dig a hole.
Shannyn Sossaman is badass I don’t know what she was doing acting in this crap buffet!
once again i wish i could rate a zero….horrible movie
it has its moments but overall it’s pretty lame
Am I the only one here who actually enjoyed this movie? Yes, it isn’t THAT good, but it does have a slight fun aspect to it. The acting is horrible, and the plot sucks like a shit covered cake, but it’s a suspensful, fun movie, that should be watched with a huge boll of popcorn and a few drinks. The action is ok at times, and the suspenful moments really get you buzzing. A ok, American horror.
5/10
the plot was good but the
story itself was retareded!
I enjoyed this movie. Not my favorite but it was pritty great.
It was alright. Im sick of all this J-Horror coming to our shores ruining the classic ghost horror movie. Enough is enough.
I never thought that I would see a horror film that was so bad that making fun of it lost its appeal. While watching One Missed Call I couldn’t help but imagine aliens observing our planet through our horror films and trying to communicate by making their own, except that they due so without possessing any understanding of the human psyche or why these films scare us. One Missed Call is a paint-by-numbers tween wreck with poor acting, annoyingly frequent but ineffective fake scares, terrible CGI, and a script that is unable to tell even a simple, coherent story. What the plot is supposed to be about, though the film makes every effort to make you not care, is a group of college students who receive phone calls in which they hear their own deaths, and then die a few days later in that same way, which prompts ghostly phone calls to be sent from their phone to those in their calls directory, repeating the pattern. I have not seen the original on which this is based, but I must assume it was far more competent at making cell phones scary than this steaming turd, which is a critical failure on all levels.
You need not take my word for it, for the opening scene illustrates its ineptitude perfectly. After some shots of a hospital fire we see a girl talking on her cell phone with her friend in a backyard garden which has a small pond. The girl is startled by her cat (the cliché of clichés) near the pond and then turns back to her homework. When she looks toward the cat again it is gone, and she seems to think it fell in the water and drowned and goes to investigate, which proves this scene was written by someone who has never owned a cat. The cat appears at the other side of the lake and, just as the girl is relieved, a hand pulls her in into the water. As silence again settles, the cat is then pulled into the water as well, and the girl’s phone begins to magically dial her friends. Aside from the fact that this is all much more funny than scary, it is also angering how the movie cannot even stick to its own rules in the first few minutes. Did the cat receive a phone call? Did the killer hand not want witnesses? I could go on, but what’s the point? This movie is among the worst films I have ever seen, and that is certainly saying something.
I have seen countless terrible, mostly low-budget horror films that are easily forgettable and often times laughable. However, these bombs are usually made with the best intentions, and even though they are lacking in almost every other way, they contain some heart in their creation. This film, however, is nothing more than a cold, calculated profit machine meant to separate young teens from their parents’ money. It is the horror genre’s equivalent of a boy band, and contains no artistic integrity, and therefore deserves no respect. Hopefully, if these films cease to become the guaranteed cash cows that they always are, Hollywood might start trying a little harder to give teens the quality horror which they so greatly lack. Not likely, I know.
Lastly, the PG-13 rating need not be the death knell for horror films that it too frequently is, as some fine examples of the genre contain this rating: Poltergeist, The Others, The Sixth Sense, The Ring, The Grudge, The Skeleton Key, etc. The quality of these films is certainly varied and debatable, but it cannot be denied that all are far better entrance films for teens into horror than embarrassing products like One Missed Call, which is one call from Shannyn Sossamon’s agent that she should have missed.
F
sure its not the best movie ever but hey it wasted 1hr and a bit of my time who cares get over it…..
BD Review:
”It’s not scary, it’s silly. The movie is PACKED with obnoxious jump scares, and a full-on 2/3 of them are just because Ed Burns sneaks up on somebody, gets the jump sound effect, and then says something like, “Hey, it’s okay, it’s just me, Ed Burns, from 27 DRESSES….
ONE MISSED CALL is one of the worst Japanese horror remakes ever attempted.
Score: 2 / 10”
^^Fully agree. Can’t believe I thought it would be ok, it was so dragged out with no scares. Such a bore.
1/10 for Hollywood trying to scrounge undeserved money from unsuspecting horror fans off of Miikes’s ideas, not knowing they’ve been ripped off. But seeing as the lowest I can give it on here is 2/10, I’ve no choice
VERY FORGETTABLE!I’ve seen it 3 times and still barely remember it. It was laughably stupid at times but idk its just one of them movies where I felt like it was meant to be so that makes up for it.I cant say to much because,well, I dont really remember it.
Worst remake ever.
Dont waste your time with this sh*t-fest, i took the scary movie franchise more serious than this.
i loved this one i could watch it any day:), really creepy movie, awesome story and acting:)
This was The. Worst. Horror. Film. EVER. I couldn’t sit through half of it.
I couldn’t make it past ten minutes of this film. Such a shame, it was a decent idea that could’ve been worked into something good, but this is pure bullshit.
I honestly cannot understand how some few people like this movie. It is one of (if not the) worst horror movies I have ever seen. The acting is pretty horrid, the plot could work if done right. Sadly it was not. My advice is to take a pass on this one and spend the 90 minutes it would take to watch it on something more fullfilling like watching grass grow.
crap.
Pretty good. It’s not a bad film, but not a great one. Though, happy it features the “Sexy” Edward Burns!
Nobody should be asked to watch a movie like the U.S. remake of “One Missed Call”, just as nobody should be asked to make it. It’s a movie that probably couldn’t have worked as a remake, whether we liked it or not, but gosh, it could have at least been slick and mildly engaging. Why is it that so many of the worst movies I’ve ever seen end up coming out of the genre I favor the most? Maybe it’s because all people care about these days is money; how much they make, how much people watch the thing, and how much stupid little teenagers want to squeal at it. And with “One Missed Call”, if the teen crowd goes to be scared, then they will be.
The film is one missed opportunity. Within it are actors who have talent that they should not be wasting with this trifle, and better yet, there are also props and special effects that could have been used on a much better movie. Yeah, I get it; most horror movies are bad. But they have no right to be this bad. Here’s a movie that goes against all genre rules, and doesn’t give a damn about why I go to see horror films in the first place. It aims in the wrong areas, plays things “PG-13 safe”, and misses oh so miserably.
The film is a remake of “One Missed Call”; that Takashi Miike horror movie from, I think, 2004, that I didn’t even like. That movie alone was kind of a snooze-fest, but believe me, this film is even worse. A lot of the plot elements from the first film are dragged over to the remake, one thing which is, of course, the premise.
And this is a premise that you probably know of, since for some odd-freaking-reason, this movie was actually popular. The premise involves a ghostly ring-tone from beyond the grave that, when you pick up the phone, plays an audio clip/message (?) of your last few seconds before death. The premise, as before, attempts to tackle the paranormal and the technological; and it tries to make a statement. The original film came pretty close, but didn’t quite make the cut. And neither does the remake.
So just some of the victims, among others, are Beth (Shannyn Sossamon), Taylor (Ana Claudia Talancon), and Detective Jack (Edward Burns, who sounds like he has serious strep throat). These characters suffer hallucinations, one dying early on in the film due to the ring-tone of death reaching her cell. They see ghosts until they become their prey (since these ghosts do more than just stand there and stare at you).
The problem is not the premise. As I said with the first movie, the concept is OK. And I like what these “One Missed Call” flicks are trying to do, but message-making just doesn’t come their way too well. Instead of something intelligent and creepy, we get a movie that is silly, dumb, and lame to the point where it’s pretty much unwatchable. I can’t imagine a single horror fan finding it scary let alone entertaining, and if you know anyone who admires it or thinks it is scary/creepy, then I suggest you either tell them to snap out of the trance, or to get new friends.
The film does not scare, and I do not scare easily. The whole thing is jump scene after jump scene, to the point where the film might as well be pleading for me to jump out of my seat and scream at its attempted “Boo!” moments. The ghosts that we see are products of special effects rather than the imagination, and this is the problem. That doesn’t scare me, and it doesn’t scare anybody who’s actually seen a good horror movie in their lives.
As of now, the only good thing there is to mention about this excruciatingly bad attempt at a horror movie is a cat-death-scene, in which a defenseless feline is dragged underwater by a creepy hand. I feel bad for the cat for two reasons, (1.) because he just died, and (2.) because he had to suffer being in this mess of a movie. Poor kitten; poor movie.
“One Missed Call” really is not the worst American remake I have ever seen, in fact I think that they’ve had a really good crack at it and tried to add a new spin on the story. Seriously, it is no where near as bad as “Shutter” or the even worse “Prom Night” (not Japanese I know but it was absolutely hideous!) “One Missed Call” obviously isn’t a patch on the original but it’s still a watchable, well-paced psychological horror.
The beginning of it did leave me a bit on edge because it really wasn’t done very well at all with the seriously unscary hand poking out the water and taking the woman and then a cat!? But, luckily after that the story did pick up quite nicely and although some of the dialogue ws a bit stiff, it still managed to be quite suspenseful. I don’t know why people keep banging on about it being a PG-13 or whatever you call it in America because why the heck would it be an 18? Or R as you call it. The original “One Missed Call” is not gory in the slightest. I’d go as far to say that this remake is gorier and the death scenes are better done than the original’s as they seemed very confusingly executed.
Although “One Missed Call” does have some slightly creepy moments, I didn’t find it any where near as scary as the original (unsurprisingly) for example, the scariest moment in the original for me was the hospital scene with the ghost/zombie woman with her creepy slow movements and claustraphobic atmosphere. Here, they use speed for scares and it just looks more comical than frightening. Another example was the brilliant live exorcism in the original, which here seems extremely rushed and executed really badly in comparison with the original. but in a way I admire it for that because it didn’t copy it shot by shot and it had a go and I suppose for those who haven’t seen the original it would look OK.
However. For those who haven’t seen the original they might also find it very confusing because things are not as well explained as in the original. Questions are left unanswered and I don’t think that the makers of the film actually got the essence of the mystery or the rules. Things were not well explained. Having said that, the mystery is still engaging and highly original (obviously not here because they’ve taken the story).
So taking away from the original here, we have a remake that really does try very hard to be its own and in the end it does succeed if not always for the right reasons. Still, I really enjoyed it, I thought it was fun, entertaining and engaging with its pacing meaning that I didn’t get bored, but maybe some of you will.
God awful. Stick with the original Japanese version. Way more intense and realistic ( if missing one call would actually kill you ) I wonder what would happen if they changed their number? lol
Overall, I thought that this movie was good, but it did have a couple moments that I found unnecessary and/or stupid.
I usually like remakes but I know when im watching something that nobody even tried to do well. The original movie is done so much better their isn’t even a comparison. Skip this movie completely and just watch the original.