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Phone Movie Review - Buy Movies - Rent MoviesUnlike Cellular where the mobile phone is the hero, here it is well and truly the enemy. Phone follows in the tradition of all good horror films from Japan, China and Korea such as The Eye, Dark Water, and Ringu. However this effort from director Byeong ki Ahn is even more chilling and frightening...
Jin Won (Jin-Won Ha) plays a journalist who wrote articles exposing a sex scandal involving some very unpleasant characters who then decided to intimidate her. She decides for her own safety to change her mobile phone number and move away for a while with the help of her friend and her husband. Strange happenings occur on her new phone and even more peculiar things start to happen when her friend’s daughter Yeong-ju accidentally answers her phone. Jin Won realises that something is amiss when Yeong-ju’s behaviour becomes erratic, worrying and down right scary ever since she inadvertently answered her phone. Using her journalistic skills she starts to delve deep and uncover the truths about the strange occurrences happening to her and her friends ever since she received her new phone number.
Top notch directing, writing and performances culminate in a quality chiller. Phone possess the right blend of atmosphere and chills to stop this movie being pretentious and also crossing the line into the plainly ridiculous that Hollywood so often does. Ji-won Ha has the perfect combination of beauty and intelligence to carry off the part of the talented reporter who takes it upon herself to unearth the mystery of the phone. Her performance shows she is more than adequate to land a role as another leading lady. However the show stealer is See-hoo Eun who plays Yeong –ju, the little girl who is has been haunted and troubled ever since she answered Jin Won’s phone. Her performance is out of this world oozing maturity but at the same time blood curdling terrifying.
Byeong- ki Ahn direction is first-rate and the manner in which he moves the film along is spot on. His style of direction is also very impressive and he goes against the grain by showing that an atmospheric movie does not have to be slow in pace, plot development and character growth but can move along at a fairly decent tempo. However this film still follows the basic Asian horror formula of reporter/ordinary woman investigates a series of deaths… little child (usually a girl) becomes haunted and show signs disturbing behaviour… woman solves mystery… justice or retribution has been exacted. This effort from our friends in Korea, even though it has been seen and done before in Asia, does continue the tradition and trend of the South-east Asians churning out quality movies not just in the horror/chiller genre but also across the board.
No doubt Hollywood will get their dirty mitts on this movie and remake it but plain and simply this is one of the best modern horror movies not just to come out of Asia but also to be released. Tinseltown take note. This is the real way to make a horror film. Leon Nicholson
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