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Oct 18, 2022 · Looking back at horror movie classics, The Ring may not be the scariest horror film but it sure is worth revisiting.
- Lloyd Farley
- Senior Author
The Ring is just forced emotional moments for no reason, dumb main characters who run into everything scary without thinking twice, and then acting like its the most terrifying thing ever. Every moment in this movie is predictable and boring.
But The Ring is in a category of its own. Well-shot, decently acted and genuinely scary, this remake of the smash Japanese hit Ringu relentlessly betrays its audience’s trust. A happy ending suddenly and inexplicably becomes terrifying. Sympathetic characters turn evil in an instant.
- Gore Verbinski
With little gore and a lot of creepy visuals, The Ring gets under your skin, thanks to director Gore Verbinski's haunting sense of atmosphere and an impassioned performance from Naomi Watts....
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- Gore Verbinski
- PG-13
- Naomi Watts
August 20, 2020. The Ring (2002) Film Review. Copper Shock's blog explores the horror film genre by looking at how this classic horror film and how its origins are colored by the original Japanese film it was inspired from.
I love war and sci-movies where real human tragedies and experiences result in death, that's real life. One of the deadliest movies I've ever seen is Saving Private Ryan. When some inexplicable evil force just kills people because it's evil, that just doesn't really do it for me. Michael Meyers is the perfect example for me.
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Oct 10, 2002 · Imagine avant-garde cinema as terror mechanism. In Gore Verbinski’s anti-art remake of Nikata Hideo’s Ringu, a journalist counts down the days till her fatal demise. Rachel Keller (Namoi Watts) learns that her niece and three friends watched a mysterious videocassette before they met their deaths seven days later.