By Lindsey Wojcik

Mix/Scene Editor

If you’re looking for a reason not to answer your cell phone or check your voicemails for a few days, look no further than “One Missed Call.”

The movie is director Eric Valette’s remake of the 2003 Japanese horror flick “Chakushin Ari.”

The plot follows young Beth Raymond (Shannyn Sossamon) who becomes obsessed with the possibility of a paranormal serial killer as her friends all begin to die the same way — they receive a phone call and a voicemail with the exact date and time of when and how they will die.

A mysterious red candy is always at the scene of the deaths, too.

When Raymond reports her suspicions to the police department, they tell her there is no way a dead person is making those calls. But Detective Jack Andrews (Edward Burns), who is mourning the death of his younger sister, believes Raymond’s claims and decides to help investigate.

Raymond and Andrews trace the calls and find out they are coming from Marie Layton, a nurse who’s been missing since the hospital in which she worked, caught fire.

Raymond tries to prevent her friend’s deaths, but they begin to disappear one by one.

And as soon as she becomes the next target, receiving the fatal phone call, she tries to cheat her death by going to St. Lukes Hospital.  

A few plot twists and some seriously enhanced ghost effects — think of those digitalized, lame yet creepy ghosts seen in “The Ring” and “The Grudge”— make the movie only mildly entertaining.

The PG-13 rating erases much of the normal gore you would see in a horror flick.

It’s the kind of thrill that would only satisfy high school students looking for action. But they’ll be sad to discover they won’t find it in this movie.