One Missed call seems like an odd choice for one of the world's most innovative directors.
It feels like he has been hired by some Hollywood producer to make a Japanese horror movie the way Hollywood sees them. Takashi Miike feels reigned in, putting out another version of the Ring or Ju-On.
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It's not to say it is a bad film. It has some genuinely scary moments, some additions to the scary woman/techno horror sub-genre such as the live TV exorcism and the occasional flourishes of Mikke's funny side, such as an invisible spirit taking a girls arm, breaking it, wrapping it around her neck and choking her with it till both head and arm come off.
Why miike chose this project is beyond me. Maybe he saw Ring and Ju-On and thought he could do it better. It's not better, but a decent addition to the j-horror genre.
7/10.
It feels like he has been hired by some Hollywood producer to make a Japanese horror movie the way Hollywood sees them. Takashi Miike feels reigned in, putting out another version of the Ring or Ju-On.
<Some mild Spoilers>
It's not to say it is a bad film. It has some genuinely scary moments, some additions to the scary woman/techno horror sub-genre such as the live TV exorcism and the occasional flourishes of Mikke's funny side, such as an invisible spirit taking a girls arm, breaking it, wrapping it around her neck and choking her with it till both head and arm come off.
Why miike chose this project is beyond me. Maybe he saw Ring and Ju-On and thought he could do it better. It's not better, but a decent addition to the j-horror genre.
7/10.