Like many other Asian ghost-story movies, this one is extremely well made. It really looks stunning! And the heroine is a quite well defined character, you do worry about her safety. After a giggle-inducing beginning ("Toilet films presents...") the movie starts with a bang when a women in an elevator is scared to death by some shadowy figure. Then we are introduced to our leading lady, a reporter who's getting threatening phone calls because of some article she wrote (that little side-plot is never fully explained and serves as a somewhat annoying red-herring). But things will soon be even scarier for her! First the 5 y.o daughter of her sister accidentally (or is it?) answers a call on the phone and is terrified by what she hears. Soon after she's beginning to show signs of a changed personality. As our heroine starts to unravel the mystery behind these calls and some unexplained deaths, she gets herself deeper and deeper into something that could possibly kill her!
I really liked this movie. Extremely well made and with a spooky atmosphere you could almost touch. However, the ending is almost a carbon copy of the ending in "Ringu", and the pace of the movie itself is erratic. These Asian ghost stories mostly tend to be on the slow side, but that is usually to their advantage. But in "Phone", we sometimes get scenes that tends to make one lose interest, because nothing happens that has any relevance to the story. Fortunately, these moments are quite few, and all in all, this is one horror movie that will give chills to most people, I think.
I really liked this movie. Extremely well made and with a spooky atmosphere you could almost touch. However, the ending is almost a carbon copy of the ending in "Ringu", and the pace of the movie itself is erratic. These Asian ghost stories mostly tend to be on the slow side, but that is usually to their advantage. But in "Phone", we sometimes get scenes that tends to make one lose interest, because nothing happens that has any relevance to the story. Fortunately, these moments are quite few, and all in all, this is one horror movie that will give chills to most people, I think.