One Missed Call (2003) poster
2003 · horror · j-horror · supernatural

One Missed Call

Directed by Takashi Miike1h 52m2003
ElsewhereIMDb4.035kRT0%Metacritic24TMDB6.2481
  • heavy
  • extreme
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Heavy, steady, extreme horror / j-horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.

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People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, in the form of the sound of them reacting to their own violent deaths, along with the exact date and time of their future death, listed on the message log. The plot thickens as the surviving characters pursue the answers to this mystery which could save their lives.

Our read · One Missed Call (2003) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive horror · j-horror · supernatural entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.

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You want creepy Japanese tech-horror where your phone predicts your death.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakengrabs you earlygrips by minute 6attention 4/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencejump scareschild peril

Skip it tonightSkip if disturbing child spirits and body-horror shocks will haunt your sleep.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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