Movie Review: One Missed Call
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Takashi Miike is one of the most prolific directions today who you probably have never heard off. He is most know for using extreme graphic violence and taboo subject matter in his films. Audition and Ichi the Killer feature some of the most extreme imagery put to film. However, Miike is not all shock and he is an accomplished film maker and story teller. He has directed around 14 productions covering a wide variety of subjects and genres. In the movie One Missed Call, Miike tackles the genre of J-Horror and applies his own unique vision to it.
The plot of the movie is that college students begin to receive strange ringtones on their phones and they find messages left from a few days in the future that feature themselves saying something and then screaming. The students then at the time of the message die do to some bizarre circumstances. The first falls off a bridge onto a train, then next down an elevator shaft. All of the characters that die have a piece of candy in their mouths afterwards.