Awesome Music: An unconventional example, while the remake is very much contested, everyone can agree that the ringtone is genuinely pretty creepy.
Broken Base: It's largely debated whether the remake should be titled: "The Terrible Remake With Horrible CGI and Acting That Killed All J-Horror Forever" or "A Fairly Decent Horror Movie With A Few Good Jump Scares".
Critical Dissonance: The American remake did reasonably well at the box office, but was slammed by critics (earning a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes), though audience reception wasn't a whole lot better.
The trailer for the remake, with an ominous announcer voice saying, "When your call goes straight to voicemail, your world goes straight to Hell." Bonus points for the victim-to-be saying, "That's not my ringtone." in a terrified almost-whisper.
An exorcism being performed on a cell phone.
The incredible CGI Demon Baby Holding a Cell Phone in the remake.
Takehiro's death in Final. It would be terrifying, had they not died from barfing up feathers. The fact that this was a case of The Dog Bites Back plus the demonic growling they made while the evil feathers shot out of his mouth puts what should be Nightmare Fuel into the category of Funny Moments.
Laurel Layton, who was being abused by her sister. Also, Marie Layton, who was suspected of being behind the abuse of Laurel, discovered her elder daughter Ellie was the true culprit, locked Ellie in her bedroom not knowing she would suffocate and die from an asthma attack, was the first victim of the curse when she burned to death, died still suspected of being an abusive mother, left her youngest daughter alone and having to go into care, something she had tried to prevent by searching for the real cause of the abuse, and didn't have her body found for months. And then when she's found, her body WEEPS as it crawls towards Beth before protecting her. She later returns to protect Beth again, but then Andrews' phone starts to ring at the end of the film, meaning either her sacrifice was for nothing or her ordeal still isn't over.
Jin-wo in Final. He first explains to Emiri that at the same Sign Language Summit where they had first met, he had learned of the death call and how it worked from a deaf violinist whose girlfriend died because of it. He explains that the violinist regretted not saving his girlfriend by taking the call and dying in her place, and purposely punished himself until it made him go deaf. It’s at the end of the movie that we discover that hewas the deaf violinist, and he doesn’t make the same mistake again as he swipes Emiri’s cell phone from her and takes the death call in her place.
