Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I loved Takashi Miike's ONE MISSED CALL. Loved it to death. It was everything I have come to love about Asian horror... yes, including the bizarre "what the fuck just happened?" ending.

But then again, I thought JU-ON: THE GRUDGE was one of the scariest theater-going experiences I have ever witnessed and then they remade it into a weak-sauce CG-laden piece of crap.

According to Variety, Ed Burns and RULES OF ATTRACTION's Shannyn Sossamon have signed on to star in the US remake of ONE MISSED CALL. For those who haven't seen the original, the really creepy premise is this: A person gets a call on their cell phone. A creepy-ass ring tone plays (I know it's silly, but the music used in the original was fuckin' killer) and the screen reads "One Missed Call." When they listen to their voicemail they'll hear their own voice saying something pretty out of context random and then they'll scream. The voicemail will be dated from a certain time and date in the future. And on that time and date you'll see where the audio came from.

Miike took this silly premise and made a film genuinely tense, atmospheric and creepy. The level of dread as the characters you're following get closer and closer to their deaths was real in Miike's version. I hope they can come close to recapturing that for the US remake, but I'm not going to hold my breath for it. What about you folks?