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The Ring
The Ring

2002 American remake of the 1998 Japanese horror film, Ring (also known as Ringu)

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If this is the scariest movie out there then shoot me now

  • May 25, 2003
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-3
Ok, I'm a girl, and going against my friend's reccomendations I watched this movie alone, in the dark at 3 am.
I slept fine.
This was not scary, it's all about halluciantions, and suspence, but nothing gruesome really happens. Not one drop of blood is spilled.
This movie left me with more questions than answers. I'd love to do a national survey and ask people what they found scary about htis. I know this review might not explain what I feel but, this movie is full of holes and ambiguity .

Rent it and satisfy your curiosity, but I doubt that anyone will need to spend money on purchasing it.

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review by . December 26, 2012
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High production quality (especially for a horror movie), detestable main character-- I'm rather ambivalent when it comes to Naomi Watts, but it's her shallow character that brings down this movie-- it's never explained why she's an awful human being, and I love awful human beings WHEN THEY'RE EXPLAINED. Nonetheless, I would describe this movie as "eerie" and not "scary". The actual film within the film is weird and unsettling, A+ on that. Admittedly I love …
review by . October 25, 2009
I have to preface this review by saying that I didn't actually see Ringu, but I've often heard that Ringu is scary as all hell.  So one day I'll see that.  On the other hand, I did enjoy The Ring and I thought some of its instances were quite good.  However, it is worth saying... The Ring has been branded (unfairly so) as a horror movie.  It isn't actually that much of a horror movie.  It's a Mystery/Suspense.  It has a couple of scary moments--some of which terrified …
review by . May 16, 2009
I'm use to seeing horror movies with zombies, vampires, blood and gore so when I saw this movie it really gave me the creeps. I don't know if it was all the hype behind the movie or the movie itself ,but the movie had us (my sister, niece and I) so scare that we did not want to answer the phone when it ringed.  That was probably because our house phone ringed right after seeing the 'ring video tape' on the movie.  There was not much detail as to why the little girl in the ring had …
review by . April 23, 2009
I'm not entirely on board with many of the J-horror remakes - there seems to be something deeply entrenched in the Japanese psyche that doesn't translate well (if anyone reading this is from Japan, please let me know why little girls are so paralyzingly scary, because I've always suspected that they are).   I don't think The Grudge pulled it off: if you were a neighbor of that house, you'd definitely wonder what in the hell is going on. Literally everyone who enters the house is dead: …
review by . May 02, 2009
Cheap thrills. That's a summary of the entire film. The Ring (2002) is a dumbed down Hollywood version of the Japanese horror film Ringu (1999). The Ring is actually two movies in one, it combines both elements of Ringu and Ringu 2. Instead of making a straight horror ghost story like the Japanese version, The Ring suffers from the old scheme of trying too hard. Yes, it tries to be scary, hip and an instant classic. The movie fails on all three levels. The subliminal scenes are of old hat nature, …
review by . June 22, 2008
posted in Movie Hype
(3.5 *'s) Nearly into the first thirty-five minutes of `The Ring' I got so many jolts, I nearly turned the DVD off. Popular, and often revered by horror fans, the film renders a favorably mixed bag. Conceptually it frightens and fascinates even if its premise is hokey, and there are many rules of thumb that are broken or inconsistent. Still, I was glad to take the journey. If the goal of a horror movie is to scare and tell a story, then the film truly has the goods to deliver.    The …
review by . April 20, 2004
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review by . April 01, 2004
I decided to buy this movie on the talk about it alone... I am glad that I did. I decided to watch it by myself, in the dark on a stormy night, with my bowl of popcorn, pop, pillow & blankie. I must confess that MANY, MANY times the blankie was very close to my eyes as The Ring is LOADED with HIGHLY disturbing images, jumpy parts that made me yell aloud more than once, and the ultimate dark scene with a a scary dead girl coming out of a TV!Interesting premise of viewing a video, getting a scary …
review by . November 01, 2003
posted in Movie Hype
THE RING is one of those films that makes you wish the writer and editor and director had spent more time with the released project. This little fright film houses some fine effects, gets you hooked into an almost implausible concept, and then sells out to sensationalism in the end. But the cast of actors includes Naomi Watts and Martin Henderson as contemporary lovers who have a strangely sensitive son (well played by young David Dorfman), Jane Alexander at her usual fine state as a physician, …
review by . October 11, 2003
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Disturbing images and a few good shocks don't stopThe Ringfrom being a hash of half-baked ideas. It's the kind of frightfest you'll watch to set a chilling mood or spook your susceptible friends, but when you try to sort it out, this well-mounted American remake (of the 1998 Japanese hitRingu, based on Koji Suzuki's popular novel) collapses into a heap of incoherent parts. The negligible plot follows a Seattle reporter (Naomi Watts) as she investigates the death of her niece, the victim of a mysterious videotape that, according to vague urban legend, causes the viewer's death seven days later. (Fear Dot Comborrowed the same idea while avoiding this film's lofty pretensions.) The reporter, her son, and her estranged boyfriend view the tape, and the film's countdown structure follows them into deepening layers of terror--all quite effective until the movie attempts to explain itself. At that you're better off shutting down your brain and letting the creepy visuals take over.--Jeff Shannon
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Director: Gore Verbinski
Genre: Drama
Release Date: October 18, 2002
MPAA Rating: PG-13
DVD Release Date: March 04, 2003
Runtime: 115 minutes
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