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Fans of the Japanese genre known as "J-horror" will recognize the pattern: a seemingly innocent piece of technology turns out to be the malevolent agent of some virally replicated evil force. In Hideo Nakata's "Ringu," the offending item was a videotape. In "One Missed Call," the object of dread is the cellphone — no
Fans of the Japanese genre known as "J-horror" will recognize the pattern: a seemingly innocent piece of technology turns out to be the malevolent agent of some virally replicated evil force. In Hideo Nakata's "Ringu," the offending item was a videotape. In "One Missed Call," the object of dread is the cellphone — not any one cellphone, but the system of wireless communication itself, which becomes a kind of superhighway for the transmission of bad karma. Where "Ringu" derived its power from the simplicity of its premise and the purity of its execution, "One Missed Call" staggers under the weight of its director's taste for baroque excess. The director Takashi Miike, famous for the extreme violence and bizarre imagery of films like "Audition" and "Gozu," has a wildly prolific visual imagination, but his energy seems ill-suited to the demands of what is essentially a genre film, another variation on the now-canonical formula of the "ghost in the machine." — Dana Stevens, The New York Times
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Take note.. this is a japanese release.. not phill one...
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