One Missed Call
One Missed Call is the readout on the cell phone of a select few co-eds. Impossibly the message is dated some time in the future and when the message is retrieved it’s the wireless owner saying the last few words at her untimely death. Shannyn Sossamon is Beth Raymond who gets more and more creeped out as the messages seem to be making a daisy chain around her My5 local plan. After she witnesses the gruesome dispatching of two of her pals she tries to convince a sceptical police department of the call display connection. Ed Burns in yet another questionable career move is detective Jack Andrews, the only cop willing to listen to her because his own sister suffered the same fate. Along with Jack Beth discovers that her own tortured past has a connection to the mystery as do jawbreakers, a teddy bear and an autistic girl who survived a traumatizing fire. Like The Ring and The Grudge, One missed call is a Hollywood remake of a Japanese horror film. Those two were reproduced almost verbatim and if that’s the case here it would be one to miss at the theatres as well as the “foreign” aisle at the video store.