The US remake of Takashi Miike's One Missed Call has received mixed and indifferent reviews from critics and public alike. Variety gave it two-and-a-half stars, calling it "decent if derivative", while CHUD.com described it as "too bored with itself to muster even a measure of that cynicism".

Despite the luck-warm critical coverage the Warner Brothers produced film defied expectations with a strong showing on its opening weekend in the US, taking US$13.5 million. According to ICv2 News the film wasn't predicted to top US$10 million.

One Missed Call is director Eric Valette's first English-language feature. His 2003 prison/fantasy/horror French feature Malefique won praise on the international film festival circuit.

The national release of the film has prompted Takashi Miike retrospectives at independent cinemas across the US, such as the Silent Movie Theatre in LA. There is renewed interest in Miike's classic, groundbreaking titles like Ichi the Killer, Audition, Visitor Q and The Great Yokai War.

One Missed Call is being released in Australia through Village Roadshow and has no set release date yet.

Miike titles released by Siren:

Audition
The Bird People in China
City of Lost Souls
The Dead or Alive Trilogy
Fudoh: The New Generation
The Great Yokai War
Ichi the Killer
MPD Pycho
Visitor Q
Young Thugs: Innocent Blood
Young Thugs: Nostalgia

Next month Siren will be releasing what is arguably one of the strangest additions to the Miike catalogue, Gozu; a surreal tale of a low-level yakuza ordered to eliminate his boss (and only friend).