Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

One big miss of a horror movie.

Full Review | Original Score: D | Oct 18, 2008

For a would-be frightfest built around a supernatural premise, One Missed Call is so glum and businesslike that it's not nearly as much pulpy fun as it should be.

Full Review | Jul 23, 2008

Those coming to One Missed Call in search of ground-breaking horror have definitely dialed the wrong number.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 8, 2008

Do yourself a favor and go rent any Miike film other than this one. You've got somewhere in the vicinity of 75 from which to choose.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 1, 2008

When it comes to scary movies, the Japanese have it figured out. Unfortunately, commercial filmmakers in the United States usually don't.

Full Review | Jan 9, 2008

To redial applicable catchphrases, this garbled American remake of Takashi Miike's already staticky 2004 exercise in J-horror is a wrong number.

| Original Score: D | Jan 9, 2008

The direction is uninspired, acting is lifeless, and the script borders on the inept. A PG-13 rating means that it's short on shocks, too.

Full Review | Jan 8, 2008

If you missed the first One Missed Call, made in Japan in 2004, you now can miss the American remake.

| Jan 7, 2008

The best part of the movie is the fact that, at a running time of an hour and a half, it's mercifully short.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Jan 7, 2008

Given all the hoopla over the Apple iPhone, it's a wonder that no one has yet complained over an essential missing feature: It doesn't ring you up to alert you that you are going to die.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 7, 2008

Another demonstration of how certain studios and producers care neither about us nor the skill required to pull off a respectable work of garbage.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Jan 6, 2008

A brow-furrowing blend of child abuse and adult trauma, Andrew Klavan's screenplay sacrifices coherence for atmosphere at every turn.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 6, 2008

Give this call a miss.

Full Review | Jan 6, 2008

The script appears to blatantly rip-off plot devices and story elements from The Ring, but screenwriter Andrew Klavan avoids plagiarism by tacking on an incomprehensible second ending where Ring would have left off.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Jan 6, 2008

About as fresh and vital as a fifth-generation dub of The Star Wars Holiday Special.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Jan 5, 2008

Another mediocre remake of a Japanese horror film in which flashes of computer-generated ghosts are meant to compensate for lousy acting and a banal storyline.

| Jan 4, 2008

Decent if derivative.

Full Review | Jan 4, 2008

Takeshi Miike's original 2003 One Missed Call was second-rate techno-phobic J-horror tripe, meaning that Eric Valette's even lousier American remake is something like the next generation of suck.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Jan 4, 2008