Unanswered Call is a supernatural horror film 2008 directed by Eric Valette and written by Andrew Klavan. An international co-production between the United States, Britain, Japan and Germany, this is a remake of the 2003 Japanese film of the same name directed by Takashi Miike, based on the novel Yasushi Akimoto Chakushin Ari Shannyn Sossamon, Edward Burns, Ana Claudia TalancÃÆ'³n, Ray Wise and Azura Skye.
The film was released in North America on January 4, 2008. Despite being a moderate box office success, the film is highly panned by film critics, often regarding it as the worst J-horror remake to be released. It became the worst movie of 2008, received a rare 0% rating approval at Rotten Tomatoes, and won the Tomato Berlogik Award.
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Plot
The movie begins with a young girl who was rescued from a burning hospital. A fireman asks her if her mother is still inside, which makes her speechless.
Meanwhile, Shelley, a student, sits outside near a koi pond in a Japanese-style house and after chatting over the phone with Leann, she hears her cat make strange noises. Shelley walks towards her but after a few seconds, she finds it standing on the other side of the pool. Puzzled by the situation, he suddenly heard a strange murmuring in the pond and out of nowhere, a hand appeared and dragged Shelley into the pool, drowning it. The red candy then appears on the surface and proceeds the same hand to drag the cat and drown it as well.
A few weeks later, Beth Raymond's students were talking to his friend, Leann, who attended Shelley's funeral. Leann's cell phone rings with a ring tone like ninabobokan, and says it's from Shelley. Leann listened to the voicemail, who shouted to himself. Voice messages dated three days in the future. Leann began to experience hallucinations that made him even more anxious. As she walked home a few minutes before her voicemail, she called Beth. Beth runs to get Leann, but unfortunately, she arrives at the same time where Leann accidentally fell off the bridge and landed on the speeding train, killing her. A red candy appeared from his mouth and Leann's hand called an unknown number on his phone.
At the funeral of Leann, Beth's roommate, Taylor, was talking about Shelley receiving a strange voice message before her death, just like Leann had. Brian, Leann's ex-boyfriend, began to see disturbing appearances, and left the funeral in a hurry. Beth catches Brian outside the coffeehouse and Brian shows him the voicemail he received the night Leann died, from Leann's phone. Beth noticed voicemail just a few seconds away. The explosion at a nearby construction site sent rebar through Brian's body. Similar to Leann, Brian coughs red hard candy and faints, as Beth stares in horror.
When Beth got home, Taylor, desperate, waited for her. Taylor says he knows he's next, even though he has not received a voicemail. Beth assures her that it will not happen, and takes the battery from both of their phones to make sure they can not receive the call. That night, Beth and Taylor were awakened by a luminary ring tone coming from Taylor's cordless battery. Despite not having a power source, Taylor's mobile screen featured her death video message, dated two days in the future.
The next morning, Andrews visits Beth, saying that his sister is the one who called Shelley, even though his sister died at the time of the call. He also said he was searching for an abandoned voicemail on his sister's phone and would find out more about the person who sent him, Marie Layton. Andrews went through a local autopsy report, and found a report for Ellie Layton, Marie's eldest daughter, who died of an asthma attack. They found a record for a hospital visit to Ellie and Laurel, who was Ellie's sister. Laurel is often hurt, which causes Beth to suspect abuse from her mother. As Taylor approaches, Beth races with him, and sees Taylor choked to death by an invisible force. Hard red candy fell from his mouth. Suddenly, Beth's phone starts ringing and she finds a dated note for tomorrow. In an effort to save herself, Beth decides to find out more about the hospital fires alone.
At the hospital and in less than 30 minutes, Beth was scared by the various sightings. He ran to Andrews, and both tried to escape from the hospital. They were then separated and Beth found the crawl space. She found Marie's body, burned to death and held the phone. At the time of Beth's death, Marie's corpse struck her with tears. Then it was revealed that Marie was really protecting Beth, not trying to hurt her. Remarkably, Beth survived her expected death.
While visiting Laurel, Andrews went to his room and found a teddy bear with a video disc on his back. The disc is a video of the camera Marie hid to monitor Laurel and Ellie. The disc indicated that Ellie cut Laurel's arm with a butcher knife. Marie had come in and realized that the harassment she blamed her all along was Ellie. He then went to take Laurel to the hospital, locking Ellie in the bedroom. Ellie suffered an asthma attack and died while pressing her mother's cell, making Marie the first real victim of a curse when she died in a hospital fire after leaving the room. Laurel tells Andrews that even though Ellie hurt her, she always gives her a hard red candy, which is found in the mouths of all the victims. Andrews's phone started ringing with a voice mail dated 30 minutes later.
Andrews realizes that the power behind the murder is Ellie, and the race to Beth. After he arrived at his house, they both heard a knock on the door. When Andrews looked through the peephole, the knife stabbed and killed him. Ellie's spirit emerges and reaches out to kill Beth. Marie's spirits then appeared and grabbed Ellie, rescuing Beth again. Red candy spilled from Andrews's mouth and his cell started calling his own number, revealing that Ellie's ghost was still out there, and more people would die.
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Cast
Production
One Missed Call was announced in 2005, before being officially broadcast by Warner Bros in early 2006, with the signing of Eric Valette as the film's director. The film began production in June 2006 in Atlanta, Georgia with Edward Burns, Margaret Cho, and Shannyn Sossamon signing a contract. On 3 August 2006, Ed Harris and Gabriel Byrne both signed to appear in the film, but both withdrew due to unknown circumstances.
The sound designer uses the voice of front man Skid Row Sebastian Bach in the hospital basement. The right clip comes from Bach's scream at the beginning of "Midnight Tornado", a song from the band's 1989 debut album, Skid Row .
Distribution
Release
The film was intended for release on August 24, 2007, but was later pushed back to January 4, 2008. On August 30th, 2007, this movie trailer aired on Yahoo! The film and late September/October 2007 movie posters were released along with many other promotional images. The song "Life is Beautiful" by Sixx: A.M. used in television commercials for movies.
Marketing
In December 2007, the official website was launched as well as many websites running the competition to promote the movie with the first prize is the Apple iPhone.
Home media
DVD, HD DVD, and Blu-ray was released on April 22, 2008 none of which contain special features. The film is also released on iTunes and on Xbox Live Marketplace.
Reception
box office
One Missed Call opened in 2,240 theaters on January 4, 2008. The film earned US $ 5.2 million on its opening day and $ 12,511,473 on the first weekend, ranking # 5 in Box office North America. The film grossed $ 26,890,041 in the United States and $ 18,957,710 overseas for a worldwide total of $ 45,847,751.
Critical reception
The film was not filtered for criticism. It was panned by critics. It received a 0% Rotten 0% approval ratings and an average score of 2.5/10 based on 80 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, which gave it their Moldy Tomato Award for the worst movie of 2008; the site's consensus states "One of the weakest entries in the J-horror remake lottery, One Missed Call is paralyzed by bland performances and shopworn shocks." The film is rated as the second worst movie of the 2000s decade behind Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever . Metacritic reported the film has an aggregate score of 24 out of 100, based on 14 reviews.
Although it is a remake of Chakushin ari , the film is heavily criticized for borrowing plot elements and similar to Scream (1996), Final Destination (2000) The Ring (2002), The Grudge (2004), Dark Water (2005), and Pulse (2006 ).
Relationship with One Missed Call (2003)
One Missed Call includes some scenes in the original movie. This includes scenes of exorcism, in which one of the characters was killed while filming the show American Miracles . The characters of Beth, Leann, Taylor, Jack, Brian, and Shelley are each based on the original characters of Yumi, Yoko, Natsumi, Yamashita, Kenji, and Rina respectively. Other references are contained in the theater trailers; while Leann walked down the street, a piece of the original ring tone from One Missed Call (2003) played in the background until he fell off the pedestrian bridge.
References
External links
- Official website
- One Missed Call on IMDb
- One Missed Call on AllMovie
- Missed Call in Mojo Box Office
- One Missed Call on Rotten Tomatoes
- One Missed Call in Metacritic
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