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Attempted J-Horror ‘One Missed Call’ Instead Grudgingly Makes Us Laugh

Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on January 5, 2008 - 7:04pm.

CHICAGO – Hello, J-Horror. Please hang up and dial again. In fact, the message “please hang up and dial again” should have given to Eric Valette before accepting Takashi Miike’s remake “One Missed Call” as his American directorial debut.

Hollywood’s successful calling to remake mediocre J-Horror films has finally ended with this tragic interpretation of “Chakushin Ari” in which an evil spirit haunts the cellular phone network for a group of bad-acting college friends.

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