10 Screamingly Funny Horror Films (That Weren't Supposed To Be Comedies)

This is the second Japanese sequel to One Missed Call, Takashi Miike’s Ringu rip-off, but don’t be fooled: it has all the idiot victims, cheesy effects and stupid plotting of American multiplex fodder.

After teenager Asuka commits suicide, her classmates take a school field trip to Korea, where they’re picked off one after the other using this franchise’s modus operandi: they receive a call from their future selves, then die at the date and time of the call. And they don’t go quietly: one girl is dragged along by a motorcycle, a guy is attacked by electric cables (don’t ask), a body is found inside an industrial dryer etc.

As a keen student of Ringu knock-offs, you’ll know that the heroes in these films usually solve the ‘mystery’ by finding the ghost’s mortal remains and burying them, which they think solves everything when in fact the spirit is still there and in a vendetta kind of mood. If you want to defeat Asuka, however, you have to send her an e-mail. If she receives over forty thousand in two minutes, this will of course cause her computer to explode, thus trapping her in limbo for all eternity.