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Wouldn't you know it? I'm hankering for horror movies right now and I just got done watching the American version of "Chakushin Ari" aka One Missed Call. After watching this movie I proved to myself once again as to why I never listen to critics. Critics gave this movie REALLY bad reviews and I don't really see why. Then again watching this movie is like having good sex with but with no orgasms. The sex was good.....but it lacked elements that leaves you really unsatisfied.

One Missed Call is basically about these groups of people that keep getting mysterious phone calls with one ringtone that isn't originally on their phone and every time they hear the voicemail, its a message that's from a day or two days ahead in the future and they hear themselves screaming in the message. So that's the basic premise. I've watched the Japanese version so I was dieing to see how the American version did. And I must say I thought the American version did very well. It kept 90% of the same story as the Japanese plot and elements, the cinematography was very well done and the acting was decent. A few things the American version has over the Japanese is that the elements it had throughout the movie were actually explained while there were a few elements in the Japanese version that seemed a bit random and out of place. For instance in the American version, the victims that were going to die would all see the same creepy elements, one of them being creepy crawling centipedes. I think its centipede...might be a millipede. I forgot the difference between the too, but the element was later explained. In the Japanese version there's a scene where it shows a cell phone with maggots coming out of it. Although most of the time movies like this have random elements just for creepiness, but in this case it DID feel a bit random instead of an "actual" element. You'd have to watch it to know what I mean.

Another thing the American had over the Japanese is that everything was explained well, including the elements that were thrown into the story. And what I mean by elements I mean like the things the victims see before they die. So I thought that was a big plus. But the one thing.....the ONE THING the Japanese has over the American version is the creepiness factor. I felt the American version could have been a lot scarrier. I don't know. Maybe its just me and because I've seen so many horror movies in my life that I'm used to specific factors that really get to me, but it seriously lacked that element and I was waiting for moments of something suddenly popping out at you to scare you or some REALLY disturbing image. I mean it HAD disturbing images but they were kind of "meh" to say the least. And because it was missing that element it left me really unsatisfied with it. The ending was a tad bit corny...just a tad bit, but aside from the lack of creepy, all in all everything was well done and executed the story of the Japanese original very well, and then some. It's worth watching at least once. Hence my reason for renting it xP

On a letter rating from A-F I give this movie a C.

That was a fantastic movie especially how it all tied together in the end and there were so many screwed up parts in the movie

Yes but it didn't look so obviously fake. Not like the train.

Well maybe all the doors were covered with fire and that was THE ONLY option???