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Director: Kiyoshi Yamamoto. Review: Adam Wing. We’ve all been in broken relationships before; you might toy with the idea of changing your Face book status in the hope that she’ll take a hint. Maybe send her a text message utilising a well placed smiley in order to ease the pain. You could always go for coffee and have a heart to heart, running the risk of being beaten to death with the remains of an amaretto biscuit of course. Thing is, the year is 1999. Face book hasn’t been created yet, coffee shops only exist in the movies and mobile phones are a relatively new (not to mention bricky) concept. The only option is to hope that she realises the relationship is doomed first, either that or hold out for another couple of years until text dumping has truly caught on. Point being, keeping in touch was an...

J-Horror End Call (aka Phone From Hell) is up for pre-order on R2 DVD. Directed by Kiyoshi Yamamoto, the film hails from the same producers who brought us the horror "Apartment 1303" and for a low budget affair, it looks pretty good to us so far. End Call hits the shelves March 9th. Synopsis: Struggling with exams, fending off the advances of a lecherous teacher and unable to find boyfriends, a group of high school girls would sell their souls for a change of luck. When they call a secret number at the stroke of midnight that urban legend says will make their dreams and desires come true, they don’t think they have anything to lose. Then their every waking hour becomes a living nightmare and people start to die, the race is on to uncover the truth. Yet when the Devil himself is on the end of the (whooa who knew!

J-Horror End Call (aka Phone From Hell) is up for pre-order on R2 DVD. Directed by Kiyoshi Yamamoto, the film hails from the same producers who brought us the horror "Apartment 1303" and for a low budget affair, it looks pretty good to us so far. End Call hits the shelves March 9th. Synopsis: Struggling with exams, fending off the advances of a lecherous teacher and unable to find boyfriends, a group of high school girls would sell their souls for a change of luck. When they call a secret number at the stroke of midnight that urban legend says will make their dreams and desires come true, they don’t think they have anything to lose. Then their every waking hour becomes a living nightmare and people start to die, the race is on to uncover the truth. Yet when the Devil himself is on the end of the (whooa who knew!

J-Horror End Call (aka Phone From Hell) is up for pre-order on R2 DVD. Directed by Kiyoshi Yamamoto, the film hails from the same producers who brought us the horror "Apartment 1303" and for a low budget affair, it looks pretty good to us so far. End Call hits the shelves March 9th. Synopsis: Struggling with exams, fending off the advances of a lecherous teacher and unable to find boyfriends, a group of high school girls would sell their souls for a change of luck. When they call a secret number at the stroke of midnight that urban legend says will make their dreams and desires come true, they don’t think they have anything to lose. Then their every waking hour becomes a living nightmare and people start to die, the race is on to uncover the truth. Yet when the Devil himself is on the end of the (whooa who knew!

J-Horror End Call is up for pre-order on R2 DVD. Directed by Kiyoshi Yamamoto, the film hails from the same producers who brought us the horror "Apartment 1303" and for a low budget affair, it looks pretty good to us so far. Synopsis: Struggling with exams, fending off the advances of a lecherous teacher and unable to find boyfriends, a group of high school girls would sell their souls for a change of luck. When they call a secret number at the stroke of midnight that urban legend says will make their dreams and desires come true, they don’t think they have anything to lose. Then their every waking hour becomes a living nightmare and people start to die, the race is on to uncover the truth. Yet when the Devil himself is on the end of the phone, is there really anywhere left to go?...

While you can make a pretty good argument that the J-Horror ship has sailed you also shouldn’t forget taht the reason the boom started in the first place is because when done right that distinctly Japanese approach to horror films is pretty damn effective. Is there still a bit of gas in the J-Horror tank? Well, back during the Cannes market I had the chance to see a reel of footage from Kiyoshi Yamamoto’s upcoming End Call and came away surprisingly impressed. It’s a very well shot and well constructed film and while the premise is nothing new - a group of high school girls make a deal with the devil via cell phone and end up dead - it looks to be very well executed. If you’ll pardon the pun.

Anyway ... we have just been given what I believe is the very first look at...

Did you know the devil had a cell phone? I can’t imagine why you would think otherwise; they are a tool of evil for most. But did you know if you call his cell phone at midnight, he will grant your wish? Yep. The only catch is he controls your life for the duration of the call.

Ah, there’s always a catch, isn’t there? In Kiyoshi Yamamoto’s End Call, that catch is the heart of the film; a group of high school girls make the call to get their wishes but end up dead. Now, before you brush it off as just another lame J-horror film about their fear of technology, know that some early word on it is actually pretty positive. Could this be the one that brings J-horror back to cool?

Twitch Film got their greedy little hands on the first teaser for End Call,...