Trailer - One missed call 2008

About the movie One Missed Call 2008
The supernatural horror film One Missed Call has just concluded its theatrical run, attempting to deliver scares to a teenage audience. Directed by Eric Valette and starring Shannyn Sossamon as a young woman investigating a series of mysterious deaths linked to chilling voicemails, the film also features Edward Burns, Ana Claudia Talancón, and Ray Wise. The screenplay was written by Andrew Klavan, based on the successful Japanese novel and film series. Produced by Warner Bros. Pictures and Alcon Entertainment, this J-horror remake aimed to bring a proven Asian horror concept to American shores. At the box office, One Missed Call performed poorly, failing to connect with audiences and becoming a significant commercial disappointment, especially for a horror release. Critical reception was overwhelmingly negative. Professional film reviewers universally panned the film for its confusing plot, reliance on jump scares, lack of originality, and weak performances, often citing it as one of the worst horror remakes. IMDb user reviews largely echoed these sentiments, with many viewers finding it unoriginal, unscary, and a poor adaptation of its source material, reinforcing its status as a forgettable horror movie. Below, you can watch the official One Missed Call movie trailer.

Cast:
Shannyn Sossamon as Beth Raymond
Alana Locke as Young Beth Raymond
Ed Burns as Detective Jack Andrews
Ana Claudia Talancón as Taylor Anthony
Ray Wise as Ted Summers
Azura Skye as Leann Cole
Johnny Lewis as Brian Sousa
Meagan Good as Shelley Baum
Jason Beghe as Ray Purvis
Margaret Cho as Mickey Lee
Rhoda Griffis as Marie Layton
Dawn Dininger as The Ghost of Marie Layton
Ariel Winter as Ellie Layton
Sarah Jean Kubik as The Ghost of Ellie Layton
Raegan Lamb as Laurel Layton
Karen Bayer as Mrs. Ford
Dave Spector as Gary
Mary Lynn Owen as Julie Cohn
Roy McCrerey as Dr. Painter
Greg Corbett as John
Bart Hansard as Howie
Katie Kneeland as Maddie
Jason Horgan as Dr. Brown
Kaira Akita as Jewel
Laura Harring as Mrs. Raymond
Wilbur Fitzgerald as Lieutenant
Lauren Peyton as Reception Nurse

Director: Eric Valette

Sinopsis: After the death of their friend Shelley, Leann Cole receives a voice mail from the future of the date and time when she would die. On the scheduled day, Leann sees weird things and in the precise informed hour, Leann is attacked by a supernatural force on a footbridge over a train station while talking to her friend Beth Raymond. Beth meets Leann's boyfriend Brian, who also received a call, and witnesses his death on the street. When her roommate Taylor Anthony receives a call, Beth befriends Det. Jack Andrews, who tells her that his sister was the first victim of the phone call. They decide to investigate the connections of Jack's sister and find the name of Marie Layton, who apparently abused of her daughters. Jack and Beth run against time trying to save Beth from her fate.

Trailer One missed call



PLOT
A paramedic rescues a young girl from the blazing Saint Luke's hospital before unsuccessfully inquiring about her mother's whereabouts. Sometime afterwards, undergraduate Shelley Baum hears her cat meowing near her koi pond. After she heads over to investigate, a hand appears and drowns her and her cat. Days later, college students Beth Raymond and Leann Cole discuss Shelley's funeral. Leann's cellphone rings in a lullaby-esque ringtone, with a call from Shelley. She opens it to an eerie voicemail of herself, dated for June 12 at 10:17 PM. Subsequently suffering from disturbing hallucinations, she calls Beth while returning from a study session. Beth rushes to her location but arrives just as Leann falls off an overpass and is struck by a train. A red candy pops out of her mouth, and her severed hand dials a number on her phone. At Leann's funeral, her ex-boyfriend Brian Sousa departs after experiencing hallucinations. Outside a coffee shop, he shows Beth Leann's post-mortem voicemail, dated minutes away. An acetylene tank explosion from the adjacent construction site launches debris into the air, and a rebar impales Brian's torso. A red candy is ejected from his mouth, and he collapses.

The next day, Beth meets police detective Jack Andrews, who mentions that his sister Jean interned with Shelley at Saint Luke's and died two days prior. They determine the events are interrelated, and he provides his contact card. Beth consoles her friend Taylor Anthony, who is distraught by a premonitory feeling of being the next victim, by removing the batteries from their cellphones to disable them. That night, Taylor's cellphone rings, which she opens to a video of her apparent demise. The following morning, Jack and Beth research geriatric nurse Marie Layton, originator of the calls, and find the autopsy report of her eldest daughter Ellie, who died from an acute asthmatic episode. The file, mentioning "no bruising but evidence of past scars" with an attached CPS file for further consultation, indicates that Jean, a psychiatric nurse, questioned Marie at Saint Luke's and noted nine admissions between April and May for Ellie and her sister Laurel, concerning several causes, leading Beth to assume that Marie had FDIA.

Meanwhile, TV producer Ted Summers, who approached Taylor earlier, prepares to record her exorcism, explaining that spiritual energy operates in the same electromagnetic spectrum as light/microwaves and is therefore transmissible via cellular phones from which it manifests as hallucinations. Noticing the show's advertisement on TV, Beth races to the site, arriving to an unseen force fatally choking Taylor. Her phone then sounds with a voicemail dated for tomorrow. Assuming that finding Marie will settle the matter, she ventures to Saint Luke's and encounters Jack. As they enter an operating room, Marie's spirit ejects and incapacitates Jack. Locked inside, Beth throws a chiming phone across the room, where it knocks the air duct's grill cover loose, revealing a crawlspace. Inside, she discovers Marie's charred corpse clutching a cellphone, which awakens. After pursuing and intercepting Beth, Marie weeps and murmurs, "Forgive me." Subsequently, Beth tells Jack that Marie might have brought her there to protect her.

At Laurel's foster home, Jack uncovers a compact disc from the nanny cam embedded in the eye of Laurel's teddy bear. The footage reveals Ellie incising Laurel with a knife in their bedroom. Marie entered shortly thereafter, discovered Ellie's abusiveness, and rushed Laurel to the hospital. Ellie, locked inside, began pressing wheezingly on the inhaler but was overwhelmed and collapsed, facing the future curse's constituents (millipedes, an uncanny doll of a mother with baby in a perambulator (hallucinations), and the lullaby-esque music emanating from the teddy, audible during every victim's call), before dying from asphyxia while dialing her mother's phone number. Laurel reveals that though Ellie injured her, she always provided candies. Realizing Ellie caused the curse, Jack drives to Beth's house, during which a colleague informs him of a new voicemail. After he enters, somebody knocks on the door. As he peers through the peephole, a knife stabs through it, killing him. Ellie appears and attacks Beth, but Marie's spirit intervenes, binds Ellie in Jack's phone, and reconciles with Beth before evanescing. Jack's mouth spills a red candy and his cellphone auto-dials.

Horror / Mystery / Thriller

Best Movie Trailers