One Missed Call is a 2008 American remake of the 2004 Japanese film Chakushin Ari. It was directed by Eric Valette and written by Andrew Klavan. The

General summary: In typical fashion, young college students are dying. Mode of death: a predictive phone call that when missed, tells the time of death of the victim, usually about a day in advance. Several young adults die over the course of time, and the source is traced back to a strange mixture of unrelated death, Munchausen by Proxy, and an angry, disturbed spirit.

Okay, so this film...it sucked. No other way to put it. It just sucked. Big time suck-ola. Yeah. The problems with this film are numerous. The acting is so bad that you could have stood up 2 x 4s and taped pictures of faces on them and had more expression. Every time one of the lead actress' friends dies, she just gets this forlorn look and moves on. I mean, seriously. With a friend like her, you might as well be friends with a hand puppet. And the plot made about as much sense as Paris Hilton at a Mensa meeting. The connection between the start of the curse and those that died was ridiculously vague, not to mention that the use of cell phones at the time when the curse started seemed quite unlikely. And the addition of the candy, which dropped out of each victims mouth, was related to a living entity, not the angry spirit of her dead sister. Hmm. But I will give it props (is that term still in use?) for some disturbing images. But other than that, there is nothing you can learn about good filmmaking from this movie. You could, I suppose, learn a lot about what not to do. Perhaps starting with not casting Shannyn Sossamon, who apparently studied at the Pinocchio School of Acting for Wooden People.

Overall rating (which, as always, is just my opinion. Waste your time as you feel necessary): 1/2, and only because there were some cool, creepy images.