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Summary: Scared me silly!
Review: The Ring moved me in a way no other "scary" movie has...it actually gave me the creeps so much at the end I got sick to my stomach. A movie like that, I had to go out and buy! I won't rehash the plot here because it's been done before. But I will say I DO NOT understand all the naysayers who say nothing is explained. It is! All the who, what, when, where, why and how...and how and why she and her son survive! I would say more, but I don't want to spoil it for others.
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Summary: Incredibly scary! Excellent film!
Review: Right after I rented this one, I rented the original Japanese version (Ringu), and I don't see any comparison. The American version is far superior, with much better special effects and a much better storyline! I also loved the visuals in the U.S. version, like that lone tree on the hill. It's creepy in a positive way! And the casting was brilliant! Go ahead and see Ringu first, if you'd like, but "The Ring" is far better, at least in my opinion.
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Summary: A fine successor to The Sixth Sense
Review: This is one creepy movie, and a fine successor to the film The Sixth Sense. Naomi Watts Plays a reporter who stumbles a cross a tape that not only messes with your mind but kills you within seven days after you see it. The movie plays with your senses thought out it's viewing, and grabs you so tight that when it's over you will try to surface from your couch for air. Creepy, scary, and down right disturbing, this film will go down as one of the great ones.Grade: A
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Summary: "When you live on a island, your cold is everyone's cold."
Review: The opening scene of the movie 'The Ring' takes place in the bedroom of a teenage girl, where two teenagers are sitting in school uniforms and watching TV. The visitor to the household (a suspicious looking black-haired girl with big lips) tells her friend an urban legend about a videotape that kills you within seven days of watching it. After she's finished the frightening tale, her friend (who we soon get the impression owns the room and everything in it) tells her that the weekend before, while on an overnight trip to the mountains with her boyfriend and two of his friends she watched a mysterious tape that they found in the cabin they were renting. After the confusing footage had finished playing, the telephone rang and a little girl's voice informed them that all those present in the cabin had no more than seven days to live.
Well in the next ten minutes of the movie, the teenager (who we later learn was named Katie Emery) dies a violent, painful death and is found later that night on the floor of a closet, her face unrecognizably contorted in horror.
The next hour and forty-five minutes of the film are about her aunt, a reporter named Rachel Keller, slowly unraveling the mystery behind the deaths of Katie and her three friends. Although that is a true statement it doesn't begin to explain how magnificently horrifying "The Ring" actually turned out to be.
After deciding that the only way to conduct a proper investigation is to go to the cabin and watch the tape herself Rachel scrambles to solve the mystery behind the tape before Day Seven roles around. As in any decent horror movie, our well-intentioned heroine gets into more than a few spooky predicaments in the process. Ultimately discovering that the images on the tape are all things that any viewer will "see" over the course of the next week. The notorious "ring" is the last of these jumbled depictions, and the final thing you see before you die. As this becomes evident, the real question becomes: what does it all mean?
I didn't completely understand 'The Ring'. The intricate details of the plot - which I noticed, didn't understand, and assumed would be explained by the end of the movie - were never made completely clear.
However, this was absolutely the most terrifying movie that I've seen in quite a while. Let me assure you, there are few things more truly and deeply horrifying than watching a possessed little girl rise from her watery grave and begin staggering towards you on your television set, only to go on and prove that the plastic screen is not any kind of boundary she plans on yielding to.
I won't reveal anymore about the details of this frightening flick. I'll only say that finding out yourself is worth the week of sleepless nights you'll most likely experience after sitting through this one.
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Summary: Very boring
Review: Someone told me to rent this because it was scary, and I am a hardened horror fan, which maybe this person didn't quite know. I want to watch movies that scare the living hell out of me, make me almost afraid to turn the lights off after I go to sleep. I watched it, and I kept waiting-and waiting-and waiting to get scared, until finally, I decided this wan't the movie for me. In fact, I couldn't even finish watching it. I gave it an hour. Some people may say that I'm being unfair to review a movie I haven't seen in it's entirety. But the way I look at scary movies is this-If an hour has gone by and I'm still not scared, it's eject time. It was more like a mystery movie than a horror movie, and very Alfred Hitchcock/Stephen King styled, which also turned me off. Less hardened horror fans may like this movie more than I did. The movie is about a videotape that if you watch, you will end up dying after 7 days. It sounded kind of cool, and the movie does have a few VERY attractive young ladies starring in it, but it was the wrong movie to focus on hot girls with-it was supposed to be scary. It is also very, very long winded and it drags on and on. If you want movies that WILL scare you, check out the Blair witch Project or the Amityville Horror 1 and 2.
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Summary: Good remake...
Review: but I prefer the original. I do feel this movie was overrated and not that scary. My mom even laughed when Samara came out of the T.V. She may have looked dirtier than Sadako/Ringu, but she also looked fake, computerized. I hated the fact that you saw her face many times. That was the one thing I really liked about Ringu, you never saw Sadako's face, only her left eye. It made her more sinister, more of a mystery.
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Summary: scary as hell
Review: This Movie is one of the scariest movies i've seen. if your looking for horror not gore buy this now!!!!! definnatley worth every penny!!!!!
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Summary: Creepy, but unremarkable
Review: A Seattle reporter (Naomi Watts) tracks down the truth behind a cursed videotape that kills those who view it within seven days. The strength of this film is its creepy atmosphere, which is quite skillfully achieved. However, it just seems to drag on after a while and does nothing to improve on the Japanese original. Having seen both versions, I was struck by the way that needlessly expensive special effects, however well done, have the effect of distancing the viewer from the potential horror of the image. Although the Japanese version was clearly made on a much smaller budget, each of the creepy set pieces packs more impact than this over-produced American remake.
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Summary: One of the scariest and most original thrillers
Review: I rented the widescreen edition of the ring and watched it alone at about 12 in the night while everyone in my house was sleeping with all the lights off...Wow it really got to me. I didn't sleep 3 days after watching it and for about 1.5 week i was feeling very uncomfortable being in dark places alone. The ring is the most original psychological thriller/horror movie in years. I have been watching horror movies since i was 9 or 10 and thaught most of the hollywood ones were funny in a way rather than dusturbing. Gore Verbinski's The Ring was the only movie to have disturbed me. It involves no gore and very small amounts of blood, what really scares you is the strange atmosphere the music and sound the plot and some veeery disturbing images that stick in your mind and will hardly go away. It has some plot holes but in my opinion its those things that will make your eyes fixed to the screen until the end, not to mention that once the movie ends u will surely be waiting for a sequel. I believe that this is not just the best scary movie of 2002, but one of the best 2002 movies.
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Summary: Scariest on big screen
Review: I have seen The Ring several times, and it seems the more you watch the movie, the more you begin to get out of it. All of these little things that people have told me make no sense, to avoid the specifics, the pictures as an example, can be explained if you think about it enough. I'm not going to go into why that is, for the fact that I feel anybody who truly wants to figure it out can do so for themselves. I was fortunate enough to be a projectionist who helped to put this movie together when it was in theaters, and therfore was allowed to watch it with only employees at a theater after hours. We had the sound up a little higher than usual, and were prepared to be scared. For those of you who were not fortunate enough to see it in either DTS sound or big-screen surround sound, I feel sorry that you missed the full affect of the films soundtrack. The sounds that accompany the movies images and scenes that are designed to frighten you are ear breaking on a big screen with sorround sound, but leave something to be desired on the TV. Moving past that, the images were disturbing, and I like the VHS opening with the video from the movie, rather than going straight into previews, however, I feel this ruins the affect the video has when it is first seen in the movie itself, so, for those of you who buy this on VHS, my advice is to fast-forward through the first, ohh, 1 minute or so, rather than watch it from the onset of coming attractions, and then, if you are interested, watch the very begining. I do believe this is the scariest movie ever made, at least that I have seen, and I challenge people to find a scarier movie than this. I feel it completely blew away the 1960's "The Haunting", which I was once told was terrifying, and the remake of that movie. "House on Haunted Hill" didn't even come close to measuring up to this movies ability to disturb you. Remember, everybody has a different idea of what scary is, and this movie was just a series of nightmares that I had as a little kid put on the screen, so naturally, it terrified me, I recommend watching this movie, scaring your friends with it, but remember, if you must watch it on a standard sized TV, do it alone, in the dark, and with the volume as loud as it can go.
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