An action-adventure set in the time when Vikings tried to conquer North America, a young Norse boy is left behind after his clan shipwrecks on the Eastern shores. Despite his lineage, the boy is raised by the very Indians his kinsmen set out to destroy. Years later, as the Vikings return to stage another barbaric raid on his village, the 25 year-old Norse warrior wages a personal war to stop the Vikings’ trail of death and destruction. Forging his own path, his destiny is revealed and his identity re-claimed.
Star(s) to watch : Karl Urban (”The Lord of the Rings”, “The Bourne Supremacy”) as Ghost.
Sydney Wells is an accomplished concert violinist who has been blind since a childhood tragedy. Sydney undergoes a double corneal transplant, and her sight is restored. But Sydney’s happiness is short-lived as unexplainable shadowy and frightening images start to haunt her.
Your eyes are at work from the moment you wake up to the moment you close them to go to sleep. They take in tons of information about the world around you — shapes, colors, movements, and more. Then they send the information to your brain for processing so the brain knows what’s going on outside of your body.
First, some specifics about the eyethe human eye is about 2.5 cm in length and weighs about 7 grams. Light passes through the cornea, pupil and lens before hitting the retina. The iris is a muscle that controls the size of the pupil and therefore, the amount of light that enters the eye. Also, the color of your eyes is determined by the iris.
Star(s) to watch : Parker Posey (”Superman Returns”, “Blade: Trinity”, “Scream 3?) as Helen Wells, Alessandro Nivola (”Face/Off”, “Jurassic Park III”) as Dr. Paul Faulkner, & Jessica Alba (”Sin City”, “Fantastic Four”) as Sydney Wells.
For photographer Ben (Joshua Jackson) and his new wife Jane (Rachael Taylor), his new assignment — a lucrative fashion shoot in Tokyo — was supposed to be a kind of working honeymoon. With this exotic professional opportunity and the limitless possibilities of a new marriage, Ben and Jane arrive in Japan. But as they make their way on a mountain road leading to Mt. Fuji, their new life together comes to, literally, a crashing halt. Their car smashes into a woman standing in the middle of the road, who has materialized out of nowhere. Upon regaining consciousness after the accident, Ben and Jane cannot find any trace of the girl Jane believes she hit with the car.
Shaken by the accident and by the girl’s disappearance, Ben and Jane arrive in Tokyo, where Ben begins his glamorous assignment. Having worked in Japan before and fluent in the language, Ben is comfortable there, and he eagerly reunites with old friends and colleagues. Jane, a newcomer to the city, feels very much like a stranger in a strange land as she makes tentative, unsettling forays through the city.
Ben, meanwhile, has discovered mysterious white blurs — eerily evocative of a human form — that have materialized on an entire day’s work from the expensive photo shoot. Jane’s concerns escalate as she believes the blurs in Ben’s photos are the dead girl from the road, who is now seeking vengeance for them leaving her to die…
Star(s) to watch : Joshua Jackson (”Urban Legend”, “Cursed”) as Benjamin Shaw.
One Missed Call is the 2008 American remake of the Japanese film Chakushin Ari. The film was released in North America on January 4, 2008 and is directed by Eric Valette and written by Andrew Klavan. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros.
The set-up is at least intriguing. Several seemingly-unrelated people start receiving voice-mails from their future selves with messages that include the date, time, and details of their deaths (these messages are usually accompanied by visions of random strangers with ‘Exorcism of Emily Rose’-type creepy-faces, perhaps provided in order to have something cool to put on the movie posters). Stumbling into this nightmare is Beth Raymond (Shannyn Sossamon), whose friends begin dropping one by one, so she enlists the aid of cop Jack Andrews (Edward Burns), who, strangely, believes her. Together, they set out to solve the mystery, while the script piles one incomprehensible plot twist on top of the next as the film lumbers to its illogical, cheap-shock climax.
The concept for this one includes haunted cell phones possessed by angry vengeful ghosts. Yep One Missed Call is yet another J-Horror remake, this time of Takashi Miike’s Chakushin ari, which itself was sort of a rip-off of a Korean horror film about phones. The film is probably only unique for the fact this might be the first horror movie to hang together on the concept of Munchausen syndrome by Proxy. The genre clich?are getting less and less scary, and they feel like parodies of better efforts. Making appearances as expected are mysterious figures that dart around the screen, creepy crawly CGI bugs, loud noises, creepy childish cell phone ringtone, and an origin that deals with abuse and murder to make the ghosts angry enough to start calling people.
Star(s) to watch : Edward Burns (”A Sound of Thunder”, “Saving Private Ryan”) as Jack Andrews.
