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Watched with the lights out and a healthy dose of innocence, One Missed Call will make you jump, laugh and very likely spill much of your recently microwaved popcorn.

A Hollywood remake of a chilling 2004 Japanese horror, One Missed Call is a clunking gorefest that, if you check your expectations at the door, is something of a guilty pleasure.

The premise, as in all the best horror flicks, is simplicity itself.

A group of people begin to receive phone calls revealing the time, date and place of their deaths.

“With his preferences for static, colourless visuals and exposition-laden dialogue over conversation, the director has now set the bar for the worst film of 2008,” decried Premiere magazine, perhaps a little harshly.

The plotline, though patently (and hopefully) ridiculous, will nevertheless make you swallow the next time your own phone vibrates.

“The nonchalance of Ed Burns [as an investigating police officer] slows down the film,” argued Joe Queenan in the Guardian. “You literally can’t wait for some creepy little girl to crawl out of a deep, dark well and eat him.”

But Variety countered that “on the plus side, the director demonstrates considerable assurance maintaining suspense (even if it’s often of the anticipating-the-next-false-scare variety)”.

“It’s polished and atmospheric.”

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