Phone is one of my favourite horror films. Although this film is not as scary and electrifying as One missed call. I found the scares in this movie to be quite unique and creative. This movie has a wonderful storyline about a love triangle between two women and a man. It is a really good story about love. This movie isn't really scary for the 2nd half of the movie, but really very sad. I cried and was shocked when the main character tore open the wall and found a dead person to be buried inside there. It just looked so sad and so real just like one of the articles I read in the newspaper years ago when someone was buried in the wall. This movie has good pacing, although it gets a little boring somewhere around the middle. It uses the technique of the young girl getting possessed. And her acting was really real. The scene which the girl commits suicide by making herself fall down the staircase was awesome. It is a good show on Karma. This show has very good mystery elements. It probably has one of the scariest opening scenes. However, this movie still has its flaws. I didn't quite understand why the main character threw her phone in the sea at the end. The second half of the story has a good storyline but wasn't really scary. Other than that this movie is awesome and highly recommended. Score:9/10

Phone focuses on young journalist Ji-won (Ji-won Ha) who begins to receive threatening calls on her cell phone after publishing a piece on pedophilia. To put a stop to the rush of her journalist life, Ji-won gets a new cell phone number and leaves town to get away. Soon after, a friend's daughter uses Ji-won's phone and begins to scream in terror and abruptly turns into a little daddy-obsessed weirdo. This triggers a series of strange & disturbing events that surround Ji-won and lead her to uncover a mystery of the past.If I'm going to start out with a good Asian horror, this feels like it would be a pretty good start. It hasn't been remade (yet), it's reasonably well known, and it's received a solid response from viewers. I can't say the story was completely original as the "cursed electronics" theme seems common in Asian horror these days, but it's just about how the writer uses the idea. This concept was done well enough for me. Byeong-ki Ahn's direction took the creepy script and translated it well to the screen and made it into a wickedly spooky little horror. The house Ji-won moves to really helped out with the spookiness using the mix of the unfinished interior and modern style for a creepy little setting. For me, acting quality is a bit more difficult to gauge when it comes to a language and culture I'm not familiar with, but the cast here seemed to deliver strong performances and played well with the rest of the film (especially Seo-woo Eun who played the little maniac disturbingly well). On the negative side, it does have a few problems when it comes to the cheap & cliché scares it goes for, along with some of the far overdone effects that we see in too many movies these days. Granted, it has been a few years since its release which has given plenty of time for other movies to do what Phone did here, but some of these effects were overused even before its 2002 release. Another issue I had shows as the film does go on. The story does get a little muddled once it starts to tell the backstory of Jin-hee (something that is not helped by the choppy dream & flashback sequences). Once the backstory has been established and the film heads toward completion, however, we're given a very creepy, very weird, and very interesting conclusion that makes for a well rounded film. Overall, while this variation on the tech-horror subgenre may not be the best, it does serve an interesting story with some well designed characters in a quite disturbing & reasonably well structured story.Final Verdict: 7.5/10 -AP3-

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")

All I can say is, pop some popcorn, turn off the lights and turn up the sound. This movie will entertain and creep you out. The actors do a great job, (especially the little girl), without the traditional overacting you find in this genre. This film is stylishly filmed and directed. Though the film covers some universal paranormal themes, it is still perplexing, surprising and very satisfying. The ending is often predictable in these types of movies, however I didn't see this one coming. I would love to see the little girl in other roles. Her acting is Oscar worthy. M. Night and Steven should use this "sweet" little one in one of their movies. You probably think I'm overstating it, but just watch and tell me if she doesn't do her job creeping you out better than you could imagine! Don't miss this one! It's worth your time!