The Ring (DVD)

...was a cocky one, with the big Hollywood Execs thinking that they could match the same level of fear that the original Ring gave us. The Ring has evolved much like the tape in the film itself, except without killing people. It has gained recognition and notoriety among people and has slowly become a stand out film in the crowded horror genre. It seemed unlikely that the remake would better the original or indeed come close, after all the Japanese ...
...big budget remake wouldn’t create the same atmosphere. Nevertheless viewing the remade version of the Ring should tried to be done with no preconceptions and judged to see whether it is good as a stand alone film and not just one that measures up to the Japanese original. The story of the ring is a tale you would find easily on urban legend websites. A strange video is doing the rounds depicting all matter of strange images and scenes, nothing too ...

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...Watts) vows to get to the bottom of the death. Rachel discovers that three of Katie’s friends are also dead; chillingly, all four teenagers died at 10 p.m. on the same night. Rachel’s search for the truth leads her to Shelter Mountain Inn, a secluded holiday retreat, visited by all four teenagers, just a week before their death. There she discovers a horrifying video tape which contains a series of haunting and terrifying images. Her ...
...days.” With the help of her friend, photographic expert Noah (Martin Henderson), Rachel tries to track down the secret of the video and tries to avert her impending death. Her search takes her to a secluded island and the mysterious Morgan Ranch, of which only the reclusive Richard Morgan now remains. Once a successful horse ranch, the horses are long gone, after a mysterious disease drove them mad and caused them to run suicidally into the ...

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...dismisses her school’s concern for the welfare of her son Aidan as merely symptoms of the child’s grief. It is only when the teacher points out that Aidan was drawing pictures of the girl’s death BEFORE it happened that Rachel becomes curious. Whilst at the girl’s funeral, Rachel comforts the girl’s mother who is inconsolable with grief and bewilderment. The wretched woman begs Katie to try and find out what led to her ...
...as the reason for asking her to do it. Unable to disappoint the woman, Rachel initially sets about investigating the girl’s death closer, by talking to Katie’s close friends. It transpires that a week before her death, Katie spent time with three other friends in a secluded woodland cabin. Even more strangely, it turns out that all four of the teenagers present that night were killed exactly seven days later, at exactly the same time. ...

LostWitness 29.01.2003 (21.02.2003) · Read full review
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...they decided on ‘Ringu’, being the most infamous one. My husband has seen both versions, and suggested that if I wanted to watch the original, it might be best to watch the remake first, as he found some of the original hard to follow (what with not understanding some of the Japanese references, and the whole language for that matter). Being a fan of Japanese horror, I was obviously planning to watch ‘Ringu’ eventually, so I decided to take his ...
...how it happened. After questioning the girl’s friends, it becomes apparent that she watched a video with three friends from another school a week before, and the other three students died on the same night, and at the same time as she did. Rachel follows the trail to the cabin they stayed in when they watched the video, and finds the tape for herself. She watches it, and finds it is a bizarre mixture of black and white images, showing horses on a ...

pesky33 26.05.2004 (30.05.2004) · Read full review
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Let's cut to the chase, 'The Ring' is the best film I've seen in ages. It's been a very long time since I emerged from a cinema feeling shaken, emotionally drained and in desperate need of a stiff drink, the last time was probably when 'Se7en' came out. Put simply, The Ring scared the crap out of me. There are two kinds of horror film these days, the first is the trendy, post-modern teen-slasher flick epitomised by the likes of Scream, I Know What ...
...call really 'scary', not like the classic horrors of the 70's like The Exorcist, The Shining and The Omen. Thanks to a little film called 'The Sixth Sense' though, proper 'scary' films - with proper 'scary' storylines, good acting, originality and genuine suspense are back in fashion again (Stir of Echoes, Blair Witch, The Others, What Lies Beneath etc..). The Ring most definitely falls into the latter of these categories and, for my money, is ...

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The Ring Cert. 15 Running time. 115 minutes Genre. horror/thriller Cast. Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman, Daveigh Chase, Brian Cox, Shannon Cochran, Amber Tamblyn, Rachael Bella Director. Gore Verbinski Distributer. UIP The opening sequences of this film emit false illusions into what the film could be like. Very 'Screamesque' like in appearance two teenage girls, Katie (Amber Tamblyn) and Becca (Rachael Bella) are in Katie's ...
...Becca: 'Have you heard the story about this weird videotape that kills you when you watch it, it looks like someones nightmare, after you watch it, your phone rings, you pick it up and the voice on the other line says you will die in 7 days' The look on Katie's face not only tells us she's heard about it but she's seen it too. The phone ringing downstairs interrupts the moment and terrified Katie answers the phone only for it to be her mother. But ...

WormThatTurned 14.04.2003 · Read full review
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...Ring" last weekend. I'd tried the week earlier but some idiot (that'll be me then!) didn't think to check the cinema times and phone up. I assumed those in the local newspaper would be correct, is that such a crime? Needless to say we missed the film and ended up seeing "Maid In Manhattan" instead. I can tell you right from the start, The Ring is a whole lot better than Maid In Manhattan. In fact it isn't in the same league as Maid In Manhattan! ...
...be even more disturbing than the remake). From the trailers you saw on TV you gather its about a video tape, and, with it being called a horror you presume someone not too nice happens. If you're like me though who avoids reading many opinions/reviews on a film before you've seen it in case someone gives a spoiler with no prior warning, you don't really know much more about the film from the trailers you see on TV. I went into the cinema not really ...

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I saw the first advert for this film about 6 months ago, and to be honest, it looked quite crap. The title itself seemed quite laughable, and many adolescent boys that I know pointed out the connotations of it. It looked like another rubbish teen flick (I know that sounds strange coming from a sixteen year old) with no plot, crap acting, and a pretty blonde. Since it came out, I’ve heard people raving about how scary and brilliant it is, but these ...
...blonde. But whilst at work the other day, I was talking to a friend of mine who likes many of the films that I do and said that ‘The Ring’ was worth a watch. So I thought ‘what the hell!’ Five minutes into the film, ‘what the hell?!?!?!’ is exactly what was running through my head. It begins with two sixteen year old girls talking about strange videotape, after you watch it the phone rings and a voice says, ‘Seven days.’ Seven days later, you die. ...

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...Keller decides to get to the bottom of this mystery. Once she herself has seen the tape, she becomes convinced she is going to die. Calling on the aid of her ex they both set to work peeling away the layers of a very disturbing story. What they find at the bottom is not pleasant. I was fortunate enough to see the original 'Ring' or rather 'Ringu' (Hideo Nakata 1998) before the US remake was announced and it stuck in my mind like a splinter. From ...
...by the artful and most notably restrained hand of the craftsmen who put it together. It was subtle and effective and left you feeling washed out, rattled and distressed; everything a great chiller should. I therefore had a mixed reaction when I found out that Hollywood had seen it too and wanted to make it accessible to a wider audience (read "American horror junkies with bottomless wallets and many friends"). I saw the sequel to the original and ...

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...who has to sleep with the lights on after watching a horror film. There’s nothing scary about your average, unimaginative Nightmare on Elm Street type stuff. Killers with joke shop type gimmicks, hockey masks or unfeasibly long fingernails, chase spoilt and quite stupid teenagers round houses with too many unlocked doors and dark basements. So many of them are the film equivalent of paint by numbers. Sitting down to watch The Ring, I was preparing ...
...the opening scene started with two teenage girls discussing an urban myth about a video tape. Apparently when someone watched this video, just after it finished they would get a phone call and the voice on the other end of the line would tell them they had seven days to live. Oooh spooky. So sure enough one of the girls has seen the video and the next thing we know she’s dead. So far, so typical teen horror flick. The dead girl’s aunt, ...

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The Ring was a film I had been looking forward to seeing for quite some time. I’ve read many an opinion on the Japanese version, also entitled The Ring and it’s follow up ‘Ringu’. When I heard that they were making an English version of the film I was getting a little excited. I’m one of those that cannot be bothered reading subtitles in a film as I think it takes away the enjoyment, so even though I had heard good things about The Ring, I never ...
...guess who was one of the first in line to see it, yes, me! I was looking forward to this, I was looking forward to being completely shocked and mentally damaged. I wanted something like The Blair Witch Project gave me at the cinema a few years ago, and this I thought was the film to do it. You see it only takes a few opinions, a few televised commercials etc and I believe the hype, just as I did with 28 Day’s Later. I can’t help it, I’m a sucker ...

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...face it hilarious!!!!) reference to the fact that this is an american remake of a cult japanese horror story itself based on a cult book, entitled ringu (no not pingu!!) that tells the story of a mysterious videotape that once viewed gives the viewer seven days before they are killed mysteriously their faces contorted in fear their eyes wide open. This is the stuff of urban myth a'la candyman that basically finds journalist, rachel keller (naomi ...
...secrets of the videotape after her niece is found dead days earlier. At the request of her sister (in law i'm not sure) she investigates the tragedy, first discovering that her niece had been on a dirty weekend away with her secret boyfriend and other friends a week earlier and that they had watched a videotape that, legend has it, kills the viewer. A real video nasty (sorry) So rachel sets of to the cabin where her niece spent the night and (a ...

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...Rachel Webb decides to track the tape down, to write about its supposed occult properties. But after watching it, the phone rings and she is told she only has seven days to live. And if that isn’t enough, her son subsequently watches. So the race is on to solve the riddle posed by the disturbing images, before it’s too late. This is a remake of the Japanese horror film "Ringu" (and no, it’s not about a claymation penguin or a member ...
...I cannot compere the two. However, this version is essentially a psychological horror film, playing on the fear that maybe those urban myths are true. It’s also a decent cautionary tale (in the tradition of the original Brothers Grimm) on the destructive power of television. A lot of the obvious shocks are avoided in favour of promoting the atmosphere of menace which pervades the movie. But there are enough jump moments slotted in where you ...

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...by this film. I saw the adverts on television and being the egotisical machosim-enthused child I am I asked my friends if they wanted to see it. On agreeing a time and place to meet and to go I set off, beginning to wonder what the film might be like. At about half past 9, just as I walked out the cinema, you could probably pinpoint the exact moment where both machoism and egoism waved a pleasant goodbye out the window and left me vulnerable to ...
...tape, a tape created in the most unusual circumstances, with images that could give the creeps to the strongest of mind and heart. Fingers, maggots, and even seemingly normal things like ladders and chair, just filmed and interwined into the film at seemingly random moments. Anyway, if you watch this tape, you recieve a phone call, quite depressingly announcing that you have 'Seven Days'. Whether this is the caller stating you have the wonder Sunday ...

Fuzzmaster2002 04.03.2003 (09.03.2003) · Read full review
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...However, instead of sitting in the front room and watching stupid American teen movies like we normally do we decided that we should sleep in his summerhouse in the garden and watch loads of films other than American teen movies. The first film that we watched was Malibu’s Most Wanted, which is an absolutely brilliant film that you definitely should watch, after that at about midnight we decided to start watching the scary films, the first of which ...
...really scary, however, one of the lead characters was played by Pippin (Billy Boyd) from Lord of the Rings, which in my view made the film more funny than scary as the character that was supposed to be a ‘hard-nut’ was actually a hobbit. Another thing wrong with that film was that it didn’t actually have a story line so we decided to turn the film off and play on the PS2 for a little while. About 2.30am, we decided that it was time to watch The Ring. ...

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