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Summary: WOW
Review: Wow, i went and saw this movie at night time with a buncha friends, and boy was it awesome. It doesn't just give you that BOOM JUMP OUTTA YA SEAT! scare, but the imagery and sheer [reality] of it leaves you in horror as you leave the theatre. The first time through alot of things won't make much sense, that's my only negative, but if you see it more than once, it starts fitting together perfectly. The story alone has many twists that are unexplainable. It will send you flying out of your seat, and going out of your mind. It's a fun movie to watch with friends. I especially love it as one who loves to be scared. This movie definitely does it for me. The opening scene establishes the basis of the movie, and the big finale just....wow...ill let ya see for yourself. You think it's all done, but over a short conversation in a scene, you will once again be thrusted back into the scares. I think this is a great movie for any fan's of horror or people who just like to get scared, such as me.
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Summary: The Ring.A movie worth watching.
Review: I saw The Ring with a friend a week or two after it came out.We wanted to go because the scary previews for it intrigued us,in addition to the commercials with people who had saw The Ring saying it was the scariest movie they'd ever seen.It was a scary movie indeed.I the theatre people behind me weren't quite screaming,but they were jumping and gasping with everyone else at the scary parts. The Ring is a movie about reporter Rachel (naomi watts) who,after her neice's mysterious death,goes on a quest to find out how her niece (katy) died.She slowly finds out from various sources that Katy died form watching a videotape that is rumored to kill you 7 days after you watch it.Rachel,having watched the video tape along with her son and her estranged boyfriend,then hurries and does some major investigating.She finds out about a girl named samara who's parents murdered her and how samara had an incredibly evil way to her.On the 7th day she finds samaras dead body in a well underground.Later after all is said and done,Rachel realizes that samara is still out there and will never stop until everyone is dead...
I have only one complaint about this movie:The plot is confusing and hard to follow,and I spent hours after the movie trying to figure out why this and that happened.But all in all I think the ring is a movie all horror-seeking people should see.
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Summary: Not Scary As I Expected...
Review: I was "iffy" on watching this movie, but two weeks into its release, I decided to go check it out because all my friends (and critics) have been "raving" about how this movie was the "scariest since 'The Exorcist'. The movie was enjoyable, I don't feel like I wasted money on it, but it was not scary at all. Almost during the whole movie, I was just asking myself, wondering "What the hell is going on?". In fact, there were some scenes that made me laugh because they were ridiculous and did not make sense to me. There were some pretty "disturbing" images that kind of creep you out, but really, they had no place in the storyline at all. But maybe that's why it's supposed to be scary, because you don't know where the images are from? Regardless, I would not deem this as one of the scariest movies of all time. A cursed and haunted videotape... give me a break. 3 stars for not making me sleep through it. This movie was OVERHYPED. If you thought this movie was extremely scary, you've obviously been missing out on the real horror flicks.
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Summary: Subtly Terrifying
Review: When I saw the preview and basic concept of this film, I though, "Oh, great. Another teeny-bopper fright fest." The plot is fairly basic, and the concept is way too much like a ghost story you tell to your friends in high school to creep them out. But watching the movie, I found it quite interesting. And when it was over, I noticed that I was a bit queasy, though I couldn't explain why. While driving way home in my car, I heard a loud noise down the block and jumped. Suddenly, I realized that the movie had unnerved me. No, terrified me, though I really didn't know why. In fact, the only other movies that had left me this disturbed in the past were The Exorcist (when first released), Angel Heart and Silence of the Lambs. I still don't know why it scared me. Suffice it to say that it tapped into some deep-rooted fear in the human psyche, as it has obviously affected many others in a similar way. Perhaps it is the quasi-documentary feel to the movie, perhaps the fact that it involves root evil in the human makeup (both on behalf of the "bad guy" and the "good guy"), but in any event, it is a movie worth seeing. But don't watch it alone, just in case. . . .
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Summary: The Ring
Review: The Ring is a very scary and suspenceful thriller. This is a great movie if you like psycological thrillers. I don't suggest that you take younger children to this movie though. It can be quite scary at times. I hope this review helps you and if you do see The Ring, I hope you enjoy the show. I certinly did.
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Summary: SCARIEST MOVIE EVER!!
Review: Ok, this is a movie that isn't like "I Know What You Did Last Summer" or "Scream" 1, 2, and 3. This isn't a gore fest. This is a phsycological horror film, and can SO freak you out. I usually don't get scared by horror films cuz most of the time they are just gore fests, like the ones I named above. But when my friend and I saw this movie, we could not believe it! That movie scared us SO badly! But that didn't prevent us from getting a good night's rest, while some of our other friends were scared badly that it took them quite awhile to get asleep. We slept quite well, OK I'm rambling, but yeah, when the movie was over and the credit were going... Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE in the theater was speechless! No one said a thing, and until i made an outburst, "DUDE!!.....OH-MY-GOD!!!" Everyone then started talking, some laughed cuz of me. But my friend and I held onto each other throughout the whole movie. The only thing that I was wondering, and still wondering today is... What person in there right minds came up with a story like this?!?!?! It's great, trust me! It's a gotta see movie!
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Summary: You now have seven days...
Review: THE RING is one of those true word-of-mouthers: a piece of work which captures the attention and the
imagination of those powerful enough within their demographic to convey with efficient persuasion the idea that you must see it, at all costs, see it, before it migrates over to non-theatrical channels. Although I will not christen it as a perfect film by any means, I can state with reasonable confidence that the hype is primarily justified; THE RING is an achievement, a Shyamalanesque property which wraps a tasty bit of bait around a sharp hook (or impales it mercilessly I should say, the hapless living decoy still squirming in the current all bloody and moist and ready to be taken). Hollywood seems rapt with these kinds of supernatural/Final-Destination-like teen-targeted tentpoles, and why not? They mitigate the financial risk. And besides, it is still possible to produce a veracious gem every now and then. Let's talk about the gem in question. RING poses a simple interrogative: what if a short piece of film could kill you? Okay, you watch the film, it's really strange, somehow offputting, numinous in tone, but it's over before you know it...oh well, you move on with your life, right? Well, the next thing to happen is a phone call which informs you that you've got exactly the amount of time it took God to create the Universe and the Earth- plus that vacation day- before you cross over into the undesired realm of expiration. Depressing. And as the very effective, Scream-like prologue depicts, what was believed to be a silly urban legend is unfortunately highly fact-based. Naomi Watts plays Rachel Keller, a journalist who decides to get to the bottom of the whole ring film because of a personal connection to one of its victims; she then recieves a further impetus to suss out the mystery after she, her son Aidan, and Aidan's father Noah see the film. Aidan has a touch of the psychic to him, so he's constantly uttering cryptic statements about the other side and producing strange pieces of crayola artwork. Samara Morgan, a long-deceased little girl, seems to be the focal point of the chaos; a telekinetic personage in her own right, she somehow is behind the strange production which is offing the innocent folk. This really could have been done by M. Night Shyamalan, although probably not as well. RING is a quirky-yet-accessible movie which paints a richly-detailed ghost story on a fine canvass. Going into this, I possessed a much different set of expectations than what was eventually delievered to me; I had envisioned a typical Dimension-Films outing, replete with a younger-than-youthful hip cast plucked from the latest portfolio of programs currently steaming up the airwaves on the WB network, a group of high school archetypes whose ranks would be summarily culled by the evil charms of the cursed videotape, all of the action happening in between gratuitous slumber party games of Twister spontaneously held by nubile hotties. This kind of execution probably would have worked as well, especially considering today's marketplace, but the movie displayed a more mature, subtle presentation which, once absorbed, makes it difficult to think of it being done any other way. One of the best elements is the ring short itself (and one of the best lines is a comment made by the Noah character upon seeing it, dismissing it as just another banal student film [I wonder how many budding collegiate Spielbergs out there were secretly shattered by the implied satire]). The imagery within its frames celebrated an unrestrained indulgence for both the mysterious and the macabre, the lighting both shadowy and stark, like the ambience one finds during the evening of a calm and clear winter's solstice; it was, in essence, the centerpiece of the story, the potential weakest link in the chain, and if it had come off as anything close to tepid or uninspired, then the movie would have suffered, even if the rest of the plot was constructed with exemplary skill. I still find myself thinking of it with admiration. RING quickly developed a reputation as being one of the most frightening films ever set to celluloid. Now, although a person can be easily dissuaded from accepting such a statement as anything but pure hyperbole, it should be noted that the quantity of "creep-factor" is quite high on the graph- there are several quick inserts and a few tense sceneries and sequences which do explain the fuel stoking the fire of such gossip. The cinematography lends credence to the spooky nature of the piece, as do the performances of the prinicipals and supporting cast. And perhaps one of the greatest feats accomplished by RING is its quasi-ambiguous nature; moviegoers all around are presenting theories and interpretations as to what was really going on with the diabolical tape- indeed, I found myself floating in a somewhat state of confusion when the auditorium lights were activated. Yet, like a purloined letter, the answers were essentially there, right in front of your face; kudos to the filmmakers for sparking debate without resorting to any cheap red-herring-like devices. What one finds in THE RING is a superbly balanced project which offers a deep, resonant storyline which serves as a useful bridge for those who want to graduate from such fare as I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (not that there's anything wrong with the latter).
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Summary: Scary? No. Horrifying? Absolutely.
Review: I saw this movie with a friend of mine a few weeks after it came out. I think it was about 3 weeks after, and the theater was still packed. Every seat was filled. I watch alot of horror movies. They just don't scare me the way they used to. I get sick of stupid teen horror flicks like I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream. Murder movies don't really appeal to me either. You know, the kind of movies where some killer is running around with a knife. I'm all about the plot. If the plot is interesting, you've got my attention. The Ring starts freaking me out right when it starts. Becca and Katie exchange stories about a killer videotape and Katie confesses to have seen it. Then Katie pretends to choke and Becca realizes Katie is kidding about the choking. But she wasn't kidding about the tape. The movie is absolutely terrifying. However, for a while, I couldn't tell whether or not Samara's father was the evil one, or Samara herself. I avoid televisions now. Especially static-y ones. Girls with long, dark hair scare me....I loved the Ring.
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Summary: Best film of 2002 (so far)
Review: The Ring (Gore Verbinski, 2002) Here's something I never thought I would say: we have before us an American remake of a top-notch foreign film, and that remake is better than the original. All hail Gore Verbinski for finally showing his potential at creating commercially accessible fare (after all, the man created the Budweiser frogs!) on a big screen at feature length. Both his previous tries (Mouse Hunt and The Mexican) have been spectacular failures; The Ring is just as spectacularly a success. In this version, the doomed reporter is played by Naomi Watts (of Mulholland Dr. fame), who is neither as beautiful nor as calm as her Japanese counterpart, Nanako Matsushima. Watts' barely-contained hysteria throughout the film is one of the many things that makes Verbinski's adaptation of Koji Suzuki's fantastically popular novel better than Hideo Nakata's (though unsubstantiated rumor has it that Nakata was on the American set and gave it his enthusiastic stamp of approval). It should be noted that 'better' is a relative term here; saying Verbinski's Ring is better than Nakata's is like saying semi-sweet chocolate is better than milk chocolate. Either way, it's still pretty damn good. The main thing that gives Verbinski's version so much more punch is his unwillingness to let the viewer rest. Where Nakata lets the horrific aspects of his story fade into the background, Verbinski keeps them right up in the viewer's face throughout; things that Nakata's characters only refer to are shown in lingering, sadistic glee. For example, in one scene, both Nakata and Verbinski have their respective reporters find out that their respective cousins were not alone when they died, and that the other girl with them is in the hospital and refuses to be anywhere near a television. Nakata leaves it at that and lets the poor girl's ultimate fate for us to figure out; Verbinski has Naomi Watts go to the hospital to interview his, and it's one of the most chilling scenes in the middle third of the movie. Needless to say, when you take a film from Japan and place it in Washington, there will have to be some changes made to minor details. Verbinski used those to interject just a bit more distress (it will be the rare viewer who quickly forgets Watt's journey on the ferry). There are also some changes to the film's climax that make it, yes, even more over the edge than the original. Hideshi Hino would be proud. As in the original, the curse film in The Ring is a work of sheer genius (in fact, a number of scenes are so similar it's possible that it's the same footage; those who have seen both, take a very close look at the well in the curse film, for example). The changes are just enough to make the film slightly unpredictable for the legions who have already seen Ringu, but the film is still coherent and of top quality. A stunning piece of work. **** ½
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Summary: WoW !!!! best horror movie ever
Review: Hi.I like horror movies but most of them are not sceary at all
:( . waching this movie u cant relax even for a minute it always keeps you scared from the begining until the end :). By the way this is a new wersion of japanies movie.
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