One Missed Call (2008 film)

One Missed Call is a 2008 supernatural horror film directed by Eric Valette, with a screenplay by Andrew Klavan. It was produced as a joint effort between the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Germany, and serves as a remake of Takashi Miike's 2003 Japanese film of the same name, which was itself adapted from Yasushi Akimoto's novel *Chakushin Ari*. The cast includes Shannyn Sossamon, Edward Burns, Ana Claudia Talancón, Ray Wise, and Azura Skye. The movie came out in North America on January 4, 2008. Although it performed reasonably well at the box office, critics strongly disliked it, and it earned the title of the worst-reviewed film of 2008. It holds a 0% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and received a Moldy Tomato Award from the same site.

The story begins with a paramedic rescuing a young girl from a fire at Saint Luke's hospital, though he fails to learn where her mother is. Later, undergraduate Shelley Baum is drowned in her koi pond by a mysterious hand. After her funeral, college students Beth Raymond and Leann Cole talk about the incident. Leann receives a call from Shelley's number, playing a voicemail of her own voice dated for a future time. Leann then suffers hallucinations and dies after falling from an overpass and being hit by a train, with a red candy falling from her mouth and her severed hand dialing a phone. At Leann's funeral, her ex-boyfriend Brian Sousa experiences hallucinations and shows Beth the post-mortem voicemail. He is killed when a construction explosion sends rebar through his torso, also ejecting a red candy.

Beth meets Detective Jack Andrews, who reveals his sister Jean—an intern at Saint Luke's—died two days earlier. They connect the deaths. Beth's friend Taylor Anthony fears she is next, so Beth removes the batteries from their phones. Despite this, Taylor's phone rings, showing a video of her own death. Jack and Beth investigate nurse Marie Layton, the originator of the calls, and find an autopsy report for her daughter Ellie, who died from asthma. The report mentions past scars and a CPS file, and Beth learns that Jean had questioned Marie about multiple hospital visits, leading Beth to suspect Marie had factitious disorder imposed on another.

TV producer Ted Summers plans to record Taylor's exorcism, claiming spiritual energy can transmit via cell phones.