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Summary: THE RING!!!
Review: This is seriously the best movie out right now! It is frightening, and it is intelligent. This isn't some stupid teen terror film, this one is for fans of Rosemary's Baby, Jacob's Ladder, The Exorcist, and The Haunting (1963)! This is a great movie and a bit of a thinkier, so younger viewers probably won't get it. This is the scariest film of this year! The first three minutes make you think that it is just another teen horror flick, but it is decieving. Some people in the theatre were screaming in some parts, and one person ran out of the theatre crying! I wouldn't say it was that scary, but this is a good one. The best in new horror. Maybe Ghost Ship will be good, but I doubt it. Ghost Ship looks like it'll be like the new House on Haunted Hill.
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Summary: An injection of darkness Hollywood needed
Review: I feared of a cliche ridden film as I watched the Candyman-esque opening sequence, but I was very pleasantly surprised. Inspired by the 1998 Japanese movie Ringu, The Ring tells quite the haunting tale. It can be said that with a premise as intriguing as The Ring presents, the best method of moving the plot would be subtlety, allowing the contents of the legendary tape to the imagination of the viewer. However, Gore Verbinski managed to create imagery far more penetrating than my imagination could conjure up. Paced like a lucid nightmare, The Ring will burn itself into your mind. I'd love to go into detail but review space strongly encourages brevity. Let me just say The Ring is one of the better horror movies to come along in a while, possibly in the upper tier of the genre.
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Summary: Way better than the original
Review: I just returned home from a sneak preview of this film and I still have goosebumps! It sticks to the amazingly original story of the Japanese film, but this new version answers a lot of the questions that the first version did not. I thought the original was a bit boring and didn't expect too much from the American remake. Whoa, was I wrong! Expect to be scared. It will definately make you a little leary about putting that unmarked tape you find befind the cabinet into the VCR next time. Beware Samara (Satoko)!!!
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Summary: Scary for a bit, but fails in the end.
Review: The first 15 minutes of this movie were great. Very scary and filled with tension. The movie doesn't collapse immediately afterwards but it goes on a steady decline, until finally, it goes off the edge and totally looses all sense of coherency. The movie plays out like a mystery movie, except there is no mystery, and no clues barring supernatural flashbacks and little kids that know too much for no apparent reason. I will say one thing tho'. The images do stick with you for a bit after you watch it. Its just too bad they couldn't give you a half-decent plot with those images.
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Summary: WOW
Review: "The Ring" is the best horror/thriller movie I have seen since the 2 other landmark films of this genre; "The Blair Witch Project", and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre." A truly brilliant mind created this piece of art. I wasn't expecting much after seeing the trailers for this film, but after the first 20 minutes, I was blown away with its originality and intellegence. It didn't ooze with cheese and was not predictable like so many other horror films I've seen. This movie evokes thought and feeling for days after its viewing. There is no fluff about it.
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Summary: THE RING
Review: Looks interesting, but I haven't seen it. According to the critics, this is one of the greatest films of the year. I heard that it is better than Star Wars Episode II, and unfortunately, that is the greatest film of this year so far. If it's better than that, I'm there!
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Summary: Crummy trailer misled me
Review: I saw a preview of "The Ring" expecting to be bored. Having seen the trailer, i had very little interest in seeing the movie but was offered a free viewing. The movie is great. It's well written, cannot guess what is going to happen next, stirs up every possible emotion from fear (Naomi Watts is as good as she was in Mulholland Drive)to panic. In fact the kid (David Dorfman) who I saw in a movie "Panic" which he deserved an oscar does it again. In a smallish part in this movie as he did in Panic with a small part, gives every bit of real feeling to the movie. He will blow you away. When I saw him in Panic I thought maybe he had just adlibbed the whole movie makimg him seem so real but he repeats his performance again. He is the only kid actor that is as good as Haley Joel Osment in "The Sixth Sense". THe movie is so fun. I was really taken into a different world for a bit and plan to see it again when it is released. This is the best movie of the year so far.
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Summary: Before You Die, You See
Review: As a lifelong fan of horror films, I have constantly looked for something new, something frightening. After having the intense, frightening "pleasure" of seeing the smash Japanese horror sensation "Ring", directed by Hideo Nakata, I knew that a certain part of my horror film desire had been satisfied. When I heard of an American remake, I wasn't surprised. I was kind of worried, yet excited at the same time. I was hoping that the original film would not be ruined by an American attempt at a remake. Fortunately, I was able to catch an advanced preview screening of the American remake, and boy was I surprised. It was able to capture the same bleak, creepy atmosphere that the original Japanese hit had, and the performances were very well done. The story concerns Rachel Keller, a journalist who is investigating the death of her teenage neice, who apparently died of an "urban legend" that concerns a cursed videotape which causes the viewer to die after seven days. Her investigation leads her and her boyfriend to the tape, and the bizaare, chilling images on it. It then becoems a race against time for them to solve the mystery of the cursed tape, before a hideously unspeakable, evil force comes from beyond the grave to kill them. This remake follows very close to the original film, with just a few small changes and twists added in. But that's to be expected. Naomi Watts is fantastic, perfectly cast as Rachel, while Martin Henderson portrays her boyfriend Noah. The young boy who plays Rachel's son is also very creepy and pulls off his "Shining"-type role in the film. The movie builds in suspense, just like the original, slowly tightening the screws. It is a very well-done antidote for horror fans who are sick of the "Scream"-type films that have been overdone recently. This is a smart, creepy, well-acted chiller, with some very disturbing visuals (especially the corpses of the videotape's victims, and the infamous, skin-crawling final scene--which I won't spoil for you). It definitely surpassed my expectations, and joins the ranks of the recent horror triumphs: "The Blair Witch Project", "What Lies Beneath", "The Others", "Signs", "House of 1000 Corpses", and "Jeepers Creepers". If you are a fan of the original, or just a horror/suspense movie fan, and are willing to sleep with your lights on, then you definintely need to see "The Ring". Beware!
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Summary: Great Movie, Although There Are A Few Problems
Review: This is a great movie, but there were a few problems.
The first one was, they never explained who calls and says that you're going to die in seven days. The second one was, they never explained who made the tape? The biggest problem with this movie is, I was really wondering what would happen if the person who watched the tape was next to a very small TV on the seventh day. I mean, how would the girl fit through the screen? The last problem I had with this movie was, what would happen if you out in the middle of nowhere, where there wasn't a TV for miles in each direction. How would the girl come and kill you. This movie is scary, not extremely. I saw this movie when I was barely twelve and I didn't even flinch. So if your not too sure you want to see it because everybody said that it was so horrifying, then take my advice and see it anyway because it isn't even as scary as "The Sixth Sense." My Ratings: Horror Factor: 7/10 Special Effects: 9/10 Acting: 9/10 Overall Rating: 8/10
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Summary: scariest movie ever
Review: The Ring is about a freaky little girl that kills you seven days after you watch her messed up video.This movie is so screwed up that it'll make you go under your covers with a flashlight and make you want your mommy.P.S. you'll have to find the ending out yourself.
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