I’m not actively trying to promote the sure-to-be-shitty ONE MISSED CALL (which opens today), but I’ll admit these new photos sent to us from the visual effects company (Zoic BC) prove to be slightly disturbing, especially that baby. I’d say it’s his weird face or the chunky vomit/piss combo he’s sitting in, but I actually think it’s that he’s holding a cellphone. He’s probably got a Myspace account too. Damn this new generation of kids with their technology and their Lindsay Lohan and their shitty PG-13 J-horror movies!
Anyway, the early reviews point toward this one being nothing less than a moldy turd (The Arrow should have a review up in the next day or two), but it’s the box office anyone really cares about (including Warner Bros.). If this makes more than, say 13 or 14 mil opening weekend, it will be considered a hit and we can expect at least one direct-to-DVD sequel and a whole new slew of this kind of crap (we’ve still got THE EYE and SHUTTER to look forward to in the coming months).
In One Missed Call a chain of people receive terrifying cell phone messages of their own final fatal moments. Though the messages can be deleted, their number is up. Beth Raymond (Shannyn Sossamon) is traumatized when she witnesses the gruesome deaths of two friends just days apart. Even more disturbing, she knows that both of them had received chilling cell phone messages actual recordings of their own horrifying last moments. Impossibly, the calls were received days before they died, but each death occurred precisely when and how the messages foretold.
If you’ve seen this flick, or plan on it, be sure to chime in below with your thoughts!