SmugKitZine Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

SpecialsTarget Disturbing yet enthralling

Iseerphia All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

paulclaassen Man, this film gave me the chills! Quite a few scenes might not make sense until the ending explains why and how it all fits together. One doesn't really understand the young girl's obsession towards her father at first, but it all makes sense with the big reveal. I did feel some details were mentioned over and over for the sake of the story, and did not make believable everyday conversation. The film also jumps backwards and forward in time and one has to understand this storytelling method to fully understand the story. The twist ending was unexpected and a great turn of events.

BA_Harrison I'm not the biggest fan of yūrei-based horror in general (although, strangely, I do seem to have collected rather a lot of them for someone not enamoured with the genre), and judging by it's first hour, Korean contribution Phone didn't look set to change my opinion; in fact, for much of its running time the film could be mistaken for being nothing more than a simple rip-off of Japanese hits such as Ringu, Ju-on and Dark Water, with many of the familiar ingredients in evidence, including a slow-burn approach, lots of rain, fleeting glimpses of creepy kids, and long black hair sprouting all over the place.As the film progresses, though, it thankfully forms its own identity (albeit one influenced by the work of Edgar Allen Poe), the story developing a decidedly more twisted approach, incorporating infidelity, betrayal, obsession and paedophilia into its basic theme of vengeance from beyond the grave.A bevy of attractive Korean actresses also help to make this movie a tad more memorable (gorgeous Jeong-yun Choi as the victim in the film's opening scene, lovely leading lady Ji-won Ha, the aptly named Yu-mi Kim as yummy mummy Ho-jeong, and Ji-yeon Choi as troublesome jail-bait Jin-hie); the best performance of the film, however, has to be from five year old Seo-woo Eun, whose turn as possessed child Yeong-ju is disturbingly convincing.6.5 out of 10, but not quite good enough to be rounded up to a 7.

MovieGuy01 I watched the film Phone, and i thought that it was a great film. It is about a journalist called Ji-won who keeps receives threatening calls on her mobile phone, she has been writing articles about paedophilia, so she changes her number. Her friend Ho-Jung and her husband Chang-hoon invite Ji-won to move to their house which is empty. One day the young daughter of her friends Young-Su picks up her mothers phone and she answers a phone call on her mobile phone, the girl screams and her behaviour towards her mother changes very quickly, and she ends up rejecting her mother. Ji-won keeps receiving weird phone calls,so she investigates her phone number. Ji-won discovers that the original owner of the number, Jin-hee, had vanished and the two next owners of the number have mysteriously died. I thought that this was a great Asian horror film and is one of my favourite films as i watch quite a lot of films from Asia, I thought that the acting in the film was also very good, and had a very creepy feel to it.

Claudio Carvalho After writing a series of articles about pedophilia, the journalist Ji-won (Ji-won Ha) receives threatening calls on her cellular and she changes her number. Her close friend Ho-jung (Yu-mi Kim) and her husband Chang-hoon (Woo-jae Choi) invite Ji-won to move to their house in Bang Bae that is empty and closed. When the young daughter of her friends Young-Su (Seo-woo Eun) answers a phone call in her mobile phone, the girl screams and changes her behavior, feeling a great attraction for her father and rejecting her mother. Meanwhile Ji-won receives weird phone calls and sees and listens to a teenager playing Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" on the piano. After investigating her phone number, Ji-won discovers that the original owner of the number, Jin-hee (Ji-yeon Choi), had vanished and the two next owners of the number have mysteriously died in unusual circumstances. Her further investigation about Jin-hee discloses that the teenager was absolutely disturbed with her obsessive love for a man that had broken the relationship with her, and later she unravels dark and tragic secrets about the fate of Jin-hee."Pon" is a scary and consistent ghost story that uses elements of many other horror movies but works very well. The association is immediate with "Fatal Attraction" and "Memento Mori" with the obsessive love of Jin-hee; "The Exorcist", with the possession of Young-Su; "Whispering Corridors" franchise with the ghost in the high-school; "Ringu" , "Dark Water", "Ju-on the Grudge" and many other Asian horror movies with the shape of the haired ghost and supernatural situations. The screenplay follows the standard of most Asian horror movies, with non-chronological sequences and a strong twist in the very end. The actresses are excellent and extremely gorgeous, but I was impressed with the performance of the very young Seo-woo Eun, specially after her possession, with her face changing abruptly in many situations. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "O Telefone" ("The Telephone")