Review – One Missed Call

This is mostly just a cheap casserole of leftovers from other movies. It has a strong flavor of The Ring, only the cell phone address book element gives it a taste of an old horror movie from the 80s called Ghost in the Machine. For awhile the apparently-accidental deaths suggest Final Destination, but then the boogeyman (or boogeyperson, as the case may be) comes out into the open. Overall this has a good visual or two, but the story’s just too much of a dull reheat to keep things interesting. The child abuse angle is also more icky than it is intriguing. See if desperate