One Missed Call (2008)
Score: 2/10
Rated: 2 from 10
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This movie was terrible.
Read my review on my website, nevermind I'll paste it here for you below :)
As a webmaster of a site called Kitty Safe I realized quickly that this
movie was after my own heart.
Now first of all I love scenes of hallucinatory madness in a high
school classroom. The contrast between sheltered safety and that which
goes against everything we are taught from a rational standpoint has
made me horny ever since Heather Langenkamp fell asleep and was warned
not to run in the halls in Nightmare on Elm Street (1984).
One thing is for sure, special effects have always made huge strides.
The visuals, eye candy of horror has truly excelled, but stories and
direction have fallen far behind. That's why we get all these remakes,
sequels and prequels and re hashed crap for the last ten years or
longer even. I have found myself turning more and more to foreign films
for my prescription of good horror. South Korea (A Tale of Two Sisters,
Ghost House), Japan (The Ring, Dark Water), Thailand (Shutter) Hong
Kong (Inner Senses, Re-Cycle) and more recently
Mexico (El Orfanato), France (The Inside).
The biggest problem I have with this movie is it's complete lack of
character development, intelligent writing, and character direction. No
one in the movie acted with any believability.
We have a cop who jimmies a
lock with a piece of paper, everyone doing something really suddenly
behind a scared girl, whether it's setting off asthma medication, or
handing someone a cell phone, the only thing this movie had going for
it was decent special effects and amazing cleavage of the female
actresses push-up bras. Also I'm fairly sure I have that aquarium
screen saver used as the fish tank in the detective's office. Just
kidding.
Ever since I watched The Ring by Gore Verbinski, I've waited for a
horror movie made in the USA that could match it's seamless and intense
pacing, but nothing comes close. If only Richard Matheson were still
alive.
There simply was no logic to this movie or
cohesion in anything. It was as though Uwe Boll wrote the script. I
mean the original was pretty bad but at least that had the decency to
keep intangible provinces to themselves instead of dumbing them down
into something completely mundane. The ending was so bad I wanted to
strangle somebody.
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