10 Film Sequels And Spin-Offs That Should Never Have Happened
4. One Missed Call: Final
This is the second Japanese sequel to One Missed Call, Takashi Miikes Ringu rip-off, but dont be fooled: it has all the idiot victims, cheesy effects and stupid plotting of American multiplex fodder.
When teenage monkey wrench Asuka commits suicide, her classmates celebrate in time-honoured fashion with a school field trip to Korea, where theyre picked off one after the other using this franchises modus operandi: they receive a call from their future selves, then die at the date and time of the call. And they dont go quietly: one girl is dragged along by a motorcycle, a guy is attacked by electric cables (dont ask), a body is found inside an industrial dryer etc.
As a keen student of Ringu knock-offs, youll know that the heroes in these films usually solve the mystery by finding the ghosts mortal remains and burying them, but this movie aint having none of that. If you want to defeat Asuka, send her an e-mail. Get your friends and your friends friends 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.