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One night at a
party, Yumi's friend gets a weird
voice message on her cell phone. The message is
dated two days in the future and she can hear her
own scream in it. Two days later Yumi's friend dies and
Yumi starts to wonder if it had anything to
do with the phone call. As fear starts spreading
among the students at Yumi's school, Yumi soon
realizes that she's also got one missed call.
Finally an Asian horror movie gets a wide theatrical
release here in Sweden, previously we've only gotten
limited releases of movies like "The Eye". So being
the horror fan that I am, I naturally gather a couple
of friends and head for the theatres in hope of
getting to scream a lot, considering that it is an
Asian horror film directed by Takashi Miike. Well,
my hope died as soon as the movie started. It opens
really quickly with the one missed call and the scary
polyphonic ring signal but from there on it just got
worse and worse until the final abysmal and
unforgivable nonsense ending.
The movie basically feels like a "Ringu" + "Phone"
rip-off, only with teens and with less scares to
begin with. Thirty minutes into the movie everyone
in the cinema has already laughed out loudly over
five times in the movie, including myself due to
the ridiculous and tasteless jokes thrown it everywhere
making it feel like it's really a parody. Now, as a
parody this works but as a horror movie it doesn't.
Sure, you will get to jump like two or three times
but that's not enough considering that the movie is
two hours long. Every time the film faded to black
everyone in the theatre was like "finally!" and then
it faded back to normal again and everyone was like
"ugh!". When I say tasteless jokes I just have to
give you one example. There's this one scene where
one of the main characters says to a cop that every
victim had a caramel in their mouth when they died
and he says that it's all nonsense and offers Yumi
a caramel. Now that's just plain stupid.
So the movie was a total rip-off but still offers
some chills here and there and so it was still
acceptable until the last half an hour. That's
where it really goes off track. It's impossible
to understand anything that's going on for the
last thirty minutes and the final 2 minutes are
the probably the two worst minutes in horror movie
history. It's so weird that this came from the
director of so many great movies. I am really very
disappointed. If you're dying to see this flick,
watch the trailer instead, it sure as hell is
a lot scarier than the movie itself.
A severed hand and some caramel’s are all the red
stuff that you will get to see in this flick. It
actually needed more gore to stay interesting.
Well I love the polyphonic ring signal, if only
it wasn't used as a soundtrack for the entire
movie. That really didn't work.
Takashi Miike shocks with his latest horror movie
but not in a good way, this was just a high budget
Ring rip-off. If you want to have a laugh and some
cheap jumps maybe you should check it out but I
don't think that this represents the Asian horror
movie business in a very good way at all.
Review By: AnthroFred
