Rating of
2/4
"One Missed Call" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 01/29/12
A vengeful spirit transfers from mobile phone to mobile phone, leaving a message featuring the last words of the owner just before they are horribly killed. This film is everything that's wrong with the horror genre these days. It's the kind of film that was probably created in a "brainstorming session" by men who work in marketing called Brad and Todd, who wear red braces, play racquetball together and drink wheatgrass smoothies. They thought of the name of the movie first and then tried to fit a script around it. They had an "ideas board" upon which they "bounced ideas around" and had subheadings like "What teenagers like" with "cell phones", "hotties", "scares" and "gruesome deaths" written underneath (although not TOO gruesome-we've got to keep that 15 certificate to maximise ticket receipts after all...) They then discussed marketing strategy over decaf mocha lattes, while assistants "researched" Final Destination and Ring (US version of course) for ideas to rip off before they realised that the Japanese had already done all the hard work for them. As a film in itself, it's actually not too horrible; it has a few creepy scenes and adequate performances but it's such a soulless excercise in money making I felt quite dirty just watching it.
