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Created Jan 13, 2008 02:01PM PST • Edited Jan 13, 2008 02:05PM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Pretty Awful 0.5

   I cannot put into words how awful this movie truly was. I tried to find something in it that was at least minutely enjoyable, but alas, ONE MISSED CALL was a terrible excuse for a horror film. It’s plot was even similar to the premise of THE RING, when an unsuspecting victim receives a missed call, received the precise date and time when they will meet their fate. Instead of a haunted video tape (like in THE RING), it’s a cell phone call. Whether this film has an underlying anti-cell phone message I’m not sure, but it seemed like it was an attack on society’s dependence on cell phones. The plot was full of holes and completely inconsistent. It was hackneyed and unoriginal; it stayed true to all of the horror movie ‘rules’: main character is a distressed young woman whose friends are all mysteriously dying; main character seeks help of detective (whom she goes on a wild goose chase for the villain and ultimately falls for); the jerk and the slut die. Overall, the film was ridiculous and unnecessary.

4. Acting

   Pretty Awful 0.5

5. Male Stars Pretty Awful 0.5

6. Female Stars Pretty Awful 0.5

   Shannyn Sossamon, I’m disappointed you would resort to doing such a crappy film!

7. Female Costars Pretty Awful 0.5

8. Male Costars Pretty Awful 0.5

10. Film

    Pretty Awful 0.5

11. Direction Barely OK 2.0

12. Play Pretty Awful 0.5

13. Music Pretty Awful 0.5

14. Visuals Pretty Awful 0.5
15. Content

16. Edge

    Risqué 1.6

17. Sex Titillating 1.6

18. Violence Fierce 1.6

19. Rudeness Salty 1.6

21. Reality

    Surreal 2.1

22. Circumstantial Surreal 2.1

23. Biological Surreal 2.1

24. Physical Surreal 2.1