One Missed Call


Synopsis
Ringu (The Ring) leaps from television to telephone in this Japanese horror flick. (R, 2005)


Observations
The Japanese love to make technology-goes-crazy movies, and this is definitely in that genre. I wonder if that concept speaks to some deep-seated fear of the technology that has begun to encroach on all aspects of our daily lives. We want the technology; we need the technology, but ultimately we fear what we have created.

One Missed Call shows technology out of control. Cell phones getting crazy calls -- premonitions of the owner’s untimely death – then jumping to the next cell phone owner on and on infinitely. O, the horror!

This isn’t that good a movie. It’s not very frightening, bizarre or original. If you haven’t seen Ringu, try that instead. If you want to see something weirder, Japanese style, try Suicide Club for a uniquely grotesque portrait of contemporary technology and its hypnotic societal influence.

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