"Phone" is about a journalist named Ji-won. She recently got a lot of publicity because she was the first to report a sex scandal within a public high school. When one of the accused boys begins to stalk Ji-won, she decides to move and change her number. On her new number, she starts getting strange phone calls. And when her sister's daughter Yeong-ju answers the phone, she screams in terror. Over the next few days, Yeong-ju begins to get more psycho by the minute, and the strange phone calls continue. Has Ji-won stumbled upon a mystery too frightening to solve?
"Phone" was actually quite good, and had everything a good horror flick needs. Good scares, a great plot with a few twists thrown in, and the fast pacing keeps your attention. What this film IS majorly lacking is true originality. The plot is a fairly original idea; it's in the execution of the scares where the originality is. Haven't we all seen a creepy girl with long black hair already? What about hair coming out of a water fosset, or the internet terror? It's nothing new; we've all seen it before, which "Phone" kinda suffers from. But, if you watch this film open-minded, not caring about the originality (like I did), you'll like this movie. It just depends on how much unoriginality you can take. I liked this movie, and didn't care about the unoriginality.
This movie is recommended to see at least once. 7/10
"Phone" was actually quite good, and had everything a good horror flick needs. Good scares, a great plot with a few twists thrown in, and the fast pacing keeps your attention. What this film IS majorly lacking is true originality. The plot is a fairly original idea; it's in the execution of the scares where the originality is. Haven't we all seen a creepy girl with long black hair already? What about hair coming out of a water fosset, or the internet terror? It's nothing new; we've all seen it before, which "Phone" kinda suffers from. But, if you watch this film open-minded, not caring about the originality (like I did), you'll like this movie. It just depends on how much unoriginality you can take. I liked this movie, and didn't care about the unoriginality.
This movie is recommended to see at least once. 7/10