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Things We Learnt From One Missed Call


1) Taxis don't expect to get paid- they will happily drive off when you get out of the car, moneyless.

2) It's fine to touch evidence with no gloves, especially if you are a qualified worker.

3) If you get a missed call, don't worry -For no apparent reason, you may be lucky enough to have the demon mother protect you but no one else!

4) Babies are awesome texters.




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and everyone in the neighbourhood had the same type of mobile phone! lol

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Very true!!

6) Motorola flip phones are the only type of phone in the world.




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1) Taxis don't expect to get paid- they will happily drive off when you get out of the car, moneyless.

She probably paid between shots - from the inside of the taxi to her getting out, she maybe handed over a note and didnt ask for change considering she thought she was going to pop her clogs anyway...

2) It's fine to touch evidence with no gloves, especially if you are a qualified worker.

Who did that?


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I Can't remember when specifically, but i assure you 100% someone did :P

I think it was them getting it out of the bag then putting it back, but cant be sure


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I thought you maybe meant the cop at the end, the one who put the box on the shelf then heard the phone. He had gloves on but then he put the phone up to his face so that was a bit stupid!

One thing I learnt from One Missed Call is to avoid Japanese remakes - with the exception of The Ring, so far they've all been crap!

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Ooh too true.

I havent seen any japanese horrors, apart from The Messengers which was directed by two japanese men, but japanese horrors are the best of the best!

Yeah he was pretty silly hehe
why would you answer it anyway?!:P

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Maybe he wasn't really clued in as to what actually happened...I imagine they would try and keep it quiet, seeing as it sounds totally stupid!
haven't seen that one but defintely watch the ring if you get a chance, it's terrifying!!

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You mean chinese (the pang brothers) they did the original "the eye" movie too, check it out pretty scary

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Oh was it? woops i forgot hehe

Well Asia in general xD
awesome

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People who are terrified love it when you make sudden noises directly behind them.

You can jimmy a solid steel lock with a business card.

As long as the cleavage is slammin and the special effects are cool, the story can be trash.

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good ones xD

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Thank you.

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1. In case of danger when unprotected by your shallow detective friend, climb into
the confined eerie vent for quick and simple escape. Duh?

2. A girl of around 8-10 years old is tall enough to stick a knife through a peep-hole. (Her aimlessly jumping trying to stick it through wouldn't explain the pointless loud knocking on the door would it?)

3. If a live decayed corpse lays on top of you and strokes your face for a while, don't get weirded out. It's trying to protect you.

4. When listening to a voice mail of yourself saying things before your death, the best thing to do ISN'T to note down what you said and make damn well sure you don't.

5. Little girls get pissed off at random people pretty easily with no explanation. Even after death. Makes you want to give that sweet little girl down the street some candy now huh?

6. If your daughter is caught slicing the arm of your other daughter in a sadistic
way wearing a dark jumper with her hood up, the best thing for her opposed to mental health care, is time-out.

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14) To all your mothers out there who can't decide whether to give your young daughters a mobile for their Birthday or not, if you choose to, for god's sake make sure the voice mail option is disabled.

15) Due to stupidity from the characters and clashes from "The Ring" crew team, mobile phones shouldn't be answered anymore, merely left until a message of death is recorded.

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7. If you ever lock a child in a room don't give them a mobile or atleast leave them in a room with nothin in it so that evil babies, nannies, millipede things and teddies can come back and haunt your ass.

8. Failing this dont ever close a metal door on said Evil Baby it will go to town on its own face in an attempt to make you run.

9. If you know you're goin to die while on teh phone to someone STAY THE FRELL OFF IT!!!!

10. MOST IMPORTANT! If you ever see a parent hang themselves through a hole in the wall, DO NOT GET OVER THAT FEAR!!!!!!!! Small children will stab you in the eye if you do its common knowledge people use your senses.

11. Don't ever trust policemen who decide to phone you after just solving a case about being killed via cell phones.... It's just not right.

12. Everyone complains about wanting to be original..... If you want to be original don't all by the same phone from the same company!!!! Although the batteries dont even need to be in to work and seem to last indefinately when you live in the ventilation system of a burnt out hospital.

13. If you are changing you serice provider, Go with whoever the women in the dead vent had... 3 years later and she was still makin that same phone call.

The list can go on and on but i'm tired....

Back again and I'm awake so i can try and be funnier....

16. When tryin to exorcise a mobile phone, don't call it satan and through water on it. This will send it into a rage and it will hort out your electrics while wiping all video footage to show no evidence. (The true "Smart Phone")

TBC...

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Haha, love number three.. all too true.

But then again if a girl ghost couldn't float to poke the knife through then its hardly as ghostly as itd hope! however:

7) Little girls can drive cars :] and knock people over with force



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When did someone get run over :S?

There was a point when i left did i miss it?

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How come you left?

It was her male friend who forgot his phone, crossed the road again to get it and got knocked over.


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I had summat in my eye

No he was stabbed after some explosion across the street sent debris everyhere, he as almost hit by a car...

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Oh yeah, i completely forgot about that, silly mee. thanks



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1. In case of danger when unprotected by your shallow detective friend, climb into
the confined eerie vent for quick and simple escape. Duh?


She wasn't trying to escape. She heard something and decided to follow it.

4. When listening to a voice mail of yourself saying things before your death, the best thing to do ISN'T to note down what you said and make damn well sure you don't.


And just because you don't say what you said, it means you're young to live.? Maybe, but unlikely.

Oh baby. I can make your dreams come true.

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Kk then Mr. Pedantic.
The corpse that she found AFTER investigating the noise was of the dead mother, who wanted to protect her from her daughter.

Every character managed to act out their death according to what they said. You could take notes from what you said, work out what you were maybe doing. It could be construed that the messages could be deciphered as clues. But this wasn't attempted once in the movie, and near every characters time of death they were always somewhere completely retarded.

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17 (I think)- If you get a voice message of your own voice screaming from your dead friend's cell phone at a time and date in the future, it makes perfect sense to wander the streets alone, in the dark, at the exact same time and date.

18. If you find a living corpse that's trying to protect you, STAY THERE. Once you leave said corpse's side, you WILL die.

19. If you discover that your older daughter is hurting your younger daughter in gruesome ways, like cutting her with a butcher knife while wearing all black and a hoodie, the best way to handle the situation is not to take both daughters to the hospital to get stitches and pay a visit to the psych ward, but to lock the older one (who also happens to be asthmatic) in her room while you tend to the younger one.

20. If you find yourself at an abandoned hospital half an hour before you're supposed to die, it is perfectly okay to wander into said hospital after some invisible force unlocks the door for you.

"Veni, Vidi, Velcro"
I came, I saw, I stuck around.

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21. Woman with names like "Taylor Anthony" sometimes speak in Mexican accents that come and go every few sentences.

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Cats have cellphones too

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bump.

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22) Shannyn Sossamon cant act. she looks grreat, but cant act; or she was extremely bored by the whole thing. Seriously, I though she was great in Knights Tale but in this, her expression didnt change one bit, i couldnt tell if she was upset frightened or planning her shopping list.

23) i also learnt not to trust lovefilm reviews that recommended this trite.

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You all forgot the Number 1 thing in this movie. Dolls in a burned down hospital can move and talk on cell phones!

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Is everyone forgetting the most miraculous one? When your daughter gets cut by a butcher knife and you pick her up wearing all white, if there is no blood to be seen, she is a miracle child and should be institutionalized.

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Do not get Boost Mobile. They do know where you at.

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Ed Burns has no pride.

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24. that when writers have ideas for a shock value scene, they make it into an entire movie

25. it was all about shock value

26. if this was a novel, it probably had a couple chapters in it

27. you will not get this movie, no matter how well you're able to make sense of it

28. its only one law enforcement officer that'll remotely believe supernatural things are going on with you, while the rest are going on about their lives

Monkey B is not a person...Monkey is a soul, that LIVES, in many bodies.

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29. While watcing the opening scene you wonder if Megan Good's eyebrows are actually tattooed on and by the end of the scene you're certain they are.

30. When a detective sees burn marks all up and down the forearm, the first thought isn't self inflicted harm brought on my depression but child hood abuse and most likely from a mother

31. Women with mouths for eyes staring at you and zombie guys on busses are simply 'strange peoople following you'



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4. When listening to a voice mail of yourself saying things before your death, the best thing to do ISN'T to note down what you said and make damn well sure you don't.


As I understood, they were gonna die anyway, the phone sound was just kind of a record of what was gonna happen when the death came. First was were talking or yelling, but later was weren't talking and there was some sound or somebody else talking.

Therefore, it's not what they say that make them die, it's the day and time. They could change what they were saying, but not avoid death. Also, they said it so spontaneous that they didn't even remember, or couldn't avoid in time.

5. Little girls get pissed off at random people pretty easily with no explanation. Even after death.


It's not random people. Her soul was trapped on the phone. When she killed somebody, she phoned next one, and that call was her jumping to next phone. The call simbolized the dead person calling his dearest one for help. Since the call was missed, they died. As happened to the girl that called her mom for help and she didn't answer. The dead girl gets mad because the call for help isn't answered then she kills him.

If you get a voice message of your own voice screaming from your dead friend's cell phone at a time and date in the future, it makes perfect sense to wander the streets alone, in the dark, at the exact same time and date.


Nah at all. First girl hadn't clue yet what the phone meant. Then the guy didn't wanna believe it. Third one was at home trying to be safe. Then she was trying to find mother's body to break the curse, instead of hiding.

If you find a living corpse that's trying to protect you, STAY THERE. Once you leave said corpse's side, you WILL die.


Wrong. She was saved and hopped, then the dead girl went on the guy. He was next to die and died. But then the girl saw her and tried to get her because of that.

If you find yourself at an abandoned hospital half an hour before you're supposed to die, it is perfectly okay to wander into said hospital after some invisible force unlocks the door for you.


She was sure she was gonna die anyway. She believed her best chance was to find the body that could still be in the hospital.

When a detective sees burn marks all up and down the forearm, the first thought isn't self inflicted harm brought on my depression but child hood abuse and most likely from a mother


He deduced that from the things she told.

Women with mouths for eyes staring at you and zombie guys on busses are simply 'strange peoople following you'


She didn't wanna provide details, afraid her friend wasn't gonna believe. She was scared enough to call for help, but not enough to not fear being called crazy lol

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5) we also learned that your mother is an anal whore.

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