The Killing Phone is a Khmer horror film

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

 released in Cambodia

Cambodia

Cambodia , officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia...

 in 2006

2006 in film

- Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2006...

. It is a remake of the Thai film

Cinema of Thailand

The cinema of Thailand dates back to the early days of filmmaking, when King Chulalongkorn's 1897 visit to Bern, Switzerland was recorded by Francois-Henri Lavancy-Clarke. The film was then brought to Bangkok, where it was exhibited...

 999-9999

999-9999

999-9999 is a 2002 Thai horror film directed by Peter Manus and starring Sririta Jensen and Julachak Jakrapong. The story, about the deadly consequences of receiving a telephone call from the number 999-9999, is similar in premise to Final Destination or 976-EVIL.-Plot:A young woman who was given...

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Several Asian horrors are given a nod in this movie. The ghost woman in white dress come out of the television and the death of kim are a nod to Ringu

Ring (film)

is a 1998 Japanese horror film by Hideo Nakata, adapted from the novel Ring by Kōji Suzuki, which in turn draws on the Japanese folk tale Banchō Sarayashiki. The film stars Nanako Matsushima, Hiroyuki Sanada, and Rikiya Ōtaka as members of a divorced family...

. The exorcism scene in this film is a nod to that of One missed call.

Plot

The story happens after the mystery death of a young girl at a countryside school. Rumors circulate that her death was caused by a mysterious number 000-0000. The rumors spread throughout a university in Kampot, Cambodia, when a female student transfers from her old school which had "mystery deaths". However, the new death begins to happens when a group of IT students start to call 000-0000 for a wish after midnight. When every wish has been granted, the terrifying soul starts to kill them one by one. Accidents happen and the survivors must find a way to stop this evil phone number....

The Deaths

Two parts of the movie outline the deaths from two locations.

1 A countryside school:

• Sampuat is the first victim who calls to 000-0000 for help passing an exam, and suffers a fatal fall from the math building.
• 'Kanha is the next victim who calls for love and drowns in her house pond.
• Vibol is the third victim who calls to 000-0000 for an unknown wish before going missing. She is found dead by lightning two days later.
• Jidtra is the last victim who calls to the evil number in this school, and is killed most brutally. Her body is impaled at the top of a bamboo tree, her blood covering the leaves.

2 The University of Kampot:

• San Panith calls to 000-0000 for his wish of a luxury car and is killed by a car accident.
• Srey Tou asks to win "Miss Cambodia's" crown. She is killed when her head hits the toilet, causing her to bleed to death.
• Van Ann is killed by stabbing after he calls about a friend's death.
• Ping Pong dials the evil number to help her lose weight. She is found dead with her intestines spilling out of her stomach.
• Kim calls the number to be able to study in Japan; her body is found pale and grotesque.

External links

• Khmer Music Blog