i have to admit that at first i be capture by echo . the atmosphere create be great and the building that the plot be set in be pretty creepy and the actor do a great job and the back story of the main character come out of jail also give it a different and dramatic edge . after look at the trailer for the original movie sigaw it seem thy remake it pretty equal story wise and just put it in a new york setting . so here be my problem . why the hell do we need remake of these movie . if the original movie be good and watch it . i do not even know that this be a remake when watch it but the clue be leave and right . it just the same thing a ring and ju on and dark water and the like . the basic plot be about something bad that happen in the past and haunt a building and it new inhabitant . we have see it . the ghost be female again with the difference that they do not really go for a ghost look here but for a more realistic zombie kind look . the main character be portray really well and there be some nice scare but the more the story unfold the more you be let down by a plot that just make no sense to me . the end be a joke with no resolution whatsoever . funny thing be that it a clichéd happy end with ghost find their peace but top of with a rather bleak outlook for our main character . i hate happy ending but here i find it damn misplace . many thing seem random . the fingernail in the piano and the whole piano melody thing and the hole in the wall and the people around the main character die off like fly just because they knock at his door once ( why hector have to die make no sense unless you aim for the bleak end and do not care for logic ) . we never learn why the ghost can harm people by beat them up really bad and we never learn why it the good one that get kill by the good ghost ( yeah and there be a bad one in there too . ) . too many thing be just throw in there but most of it doesn not come together a a coherent story in the end . so if you take the mysterious unfolding of ring and the haunt apartment story of ju on and the rather down to earth story behind the ghost from dark water and put it all in a blender with a hundred idea from other similar movie you get the mash that echo be . sure and it atmospheric but if you do a remake of a movie it need to have a solid story and echo simply doesn not . the writing be just bad . so the really good casting and acting as well a choice of setting be just plain wasted because some idiot studio go for another asian remake because everybody do it nowadays . i never understand why they remake a mediocre asia movie like one miss call and i do not get this one either . stop waste money on this rubbish and invest it into good local screenwriter script who surely come up with fresh and more coherent plot than these . someone need to start a petition to stop remake of any kind and it gotten out of hand .