10 Terrifying Horror Movie Phone Calls You'll Never Forget
1. One Missed Call
Does it get any more terrifying than receiving a screaming voicemail from a future version of yourself, implying that you will die in just two short days? No, no it doesn't.
That's the key plot point at the centre of Takashi Miike's 2003 One Missed Call.
This isn't just a one-off, for One Missed Call dives deep on this premise and delivers a movie where this horrifying happening is taking place throughout Japan. While authorities initially peg these deaths as suicides, it becomes apparent to even the biggest non-believers that there is something far more sinister at play than merely a host of coincidental suicides.
One Missed Call has a great selling point and a truly unique way of utilising the telephone, although the lustre was lost a little by the time the film was spun as a franchise and began to be milked dry through One Missed Call 2, One Missed Call Final, a ten-episode One Missed Call TV series, and of course the 2008 English language remake of the original picture.
Still, even to this day, Miike's 2003 offering holds up as an undoubtedly creepy, atmospheric movie that hits so many gloriously tense beats.