Violence and tragedy set the mood during the first scene in the newly released film, “One Missed Call.”

It appears the film’s violent scenes have not turned too many people off. The film came in third in the top ten grossing movie recently.

The film is a remake of the 2003 Japanese horror film classic, “Chakushin Ari.” The film was written by Yasushi Akimoto he also wrote the sequel to that film.

The screenplay for this film version was written by Andrew Klavan and was directed by Eric Valette.

Beth Raymond, the main character is played by Shannyn Sassamon. Raymond is a young girl who witnesses the horrifying deaths of three close friends after each of them have received a missed cell phone call.

In the message each victim hears their own impending death. The twenty nine year old becomes desperate to solve the mystery and avoid her own demise when she receives a call herself.

The calls include a time and date stamp of when each one will die. An odd clue to the mysterious deaths is a piece of hard candy, found in the mouths of each victim.

Raymond finds help in solving the mystery from Detective Jack Andrews, played by Edward Burns. Andrews has a personal reason for solving the murders because his sister was one of the first victims.

The duo eventually traces the events to a tragic hospital fire and the death of a young girl who eventually end, up back at the burned hospital.

After viewing this film, movie lovers may begin to wonder if ghosts can actually communicate with the living through cell phones.

It had good special effects and several scenes will actually have you jumping out of your seat.

However, there were a few problems with the movie. For one, the initial victims were not given a lot of personal insight which may leave the audience not caring much about what happens to them.

Another problem is that there are parts of the plot that is never explained which can leave the audience a bit confused.

Who would enjoy this movie? Anyone who liked other such supernatural Japanese -based horror films such as, “The Ring” series and “Pulse.”