A fatal call

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Movie
German title A fatal call
Original title One missed call
Country of production USA , Japan , Germany
original language English
Publishing year 2008
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Eric Valette
script Andrew Klavan
production Broderick Johnson ,
Andrew A. Kosove ,
Scott Kroopf ,
Jennie Lew Tugend ,
Lauren Weissman
music Reinhold Heil ,
Johnny Klimek
camera Glen MacPherson
cut Steve Mirkovich
occupation

Deadly Call (Original Title: One Missed Call ) is an American - Japanese - German horror film from 2008 and at the same time a remake of the Japanese horror film The Call from 2003. Directed by Eric Valette , the screenplay was written by Andrew Klavan based on the novel Chakushin ari by Yasushi Akimoto .

action

Beth Raymond experiences that four people in their immediate vicinity receive phone calls informing them of the time of their death. The call is made from their cell phone shortly after the time of death of the last deceased. After that, they die at the specified time. Beth turns to the police. However, most police officers consider them to be mentally confused. Only police investigator Jack Andrews, whose sister was second in the line of death, believes you.

Raymond and Andrews research the background of the events together and learn that it all started with a geriatric nurse with two daughters. They search their house and first find out that the mother apparently injured her youngest daughter in order to get attention (see Munchausen proxy syndrome ).

When Beth is called, they have little time to solve the riddle and they search a burned down hospital where the geriatric nurse allegedly perished. In the hospital, Beth's time of death is approaching. Beth and Jack are separated.

When Beth crawls through the ventilation duct, she finds the corpse of the geriatric nurse. The corpse comes to life, pursues Beth and finally catches her. When Beth utters the predicted last words before her death, the corpse suddenly "protects" Beth, and so she survives.

When Beth and Jack leave the burned down hospital and split up for the time being, Jack receives a message from a colleague that Beth's cell phone has received another death call that was scheduled for 11 p.m.

Jack visits the foster parents of the nurse's surviving daughter, who has not spoken since the fire. Through a nanny cam in their teddy bear, they learn that the older daughter, Ellie, has inflicted the injuries. When the mother found out, Ellie locked her up. At that moment, however, she suffered an asthma attack. Ellie used her cell phone when she died, at this point in time all the factors of the future doomed were next to her in her room (millipedes, scarred zombie dolls, the teddy bear who played the "death music").

When Jack has finished watching the video, the younger daughter comes into the room and talks again for the first time and says that her sister had hurt her, but she always gave sweets. The candy, the last factor (one falls out of the mouth of every victim), makes Jack understand, and he drives to Beth.

When he gets to her, there is a knock on the door, Jack looks through the spy and is killed by a knife that pierces through his eye in the brain. The door opens and Ellie's ghost enters. When Ellie tries to kill Beth, her mother's ghost appears behind her and banishes her back to the cell phone.

The last thing you see is a new number being typed into the cell phone. Beth stands by, shocked and desperate; she realizes that she will survive, but that the chain will continue inexorably.

Reviews

James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that the film was yet another remake of a Japanese film that showed the Japanese people's fear of technology. He is uninspired and painfully well known. Shannyn Sossamon and Edward Burns are not bad actors, but they play without energy. The storyline doesn't hold together (“the storyline doesn't hold together”); the supporting characters are uniformly poor and uninteresting. In the end, Berardinelli hoped that such films would die out.

Dennis Harvey wrote in Variety magazine on Jan. 4, 2008 that the film was another re-use of a Japanese horror film for Western audiences. The innovations of the director, who is making his debut in the English language, deserve some respect - including the half an hour shorter playing time. Sossamon seems emotionally too unaffected ("too emotionally neutral") compared to the earlier victims, Burns plays appropriately. The portrayal of the abused child is clichéd.

The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was "a completely failed horror thriller". He lined up "superficial shock elements without ever giving the story a primer".

Oliver Noelle wrote in TV Digital 6 on March 7, 2008 that the Japanese wave would die down because of such films. The viewer has seen a lot before and entire scenes and sentences would seem familiar.

backgrounds

The film was shot in Atlanta . It opened in US cinemas on January 4th, 2008. The German theatrical release was on March 20th, 2008.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for One Fatal Call . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2008 (PDF; accessed on February 8, 2018).
  2. ^ Film review by James Berardinelli , accessed January 6, 2008
  3. ^ Film review by Dennis Harvey , accessed January 6, 2008
  4. ↑ A fatal call. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 4, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ^ Filming locations for One Missed Call , accessed January 6, 2008
  6. ^ Opening dates for One Missed Call , accessed January 6, 2008