Looking at your Caller ID a little more closely the next time your cellphone rings.įor reviews of the three films in this set, please click on the following links:Īrrow has packaged this as a two disc release, with the first film and supplements on Disc One and the two sequels and supplements on Disc Two. Simply "scare people" with a horror film, and in fact (as Mes also mentions) there are elements in the first film in particular but also with regard toĮntire franchise that may not be "jump out of your seat" fright-mare inducing, but which are decidedly angsty and may in fact have you While he only was responsible for theįilm of the trilogy, it's perhaps instructive to note how Takashi Miike talks in a supplement included on this release about wanting to do more than In terms of technology run amok sprinkled liberally with what ultimately is a kinda sorta ghost story. That as even commentator Tom Mes gets into with regard to the first film, there's a kind of "been there, done that" quality to One Missed Call The fact that a joke can be made about interchangeable titles may point out,
Sinister ringtone on cellphones becomes a harbinger of death. It's perhaps only slightly cheeky to suggest that the One Missed Call "franchise" might have just as easily been called Ringu (or at least its Americanized version Ring), since a The annals of so-called "J Horror" are filled with films where technology is not a boon to Mankind, but rather a kind of threatening curse. Please see the individual reviews, linked below, for more information. Note: The technical scores above are averages. Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, February 29, 2020
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