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Oct 18, 2022 · The Ring is not scary, or at least not to yours truly, but that does not mean it doesn't deserve its status as a horror classic. It's a haunting, psychological nightmare, a race against a...
- Lloyd Farley
- Senior Author
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. Read...
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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.
The idea of Rings was so interesting though, with a group of college professors and students trying to approach the curse in a scientific way. Too bad it turns into the blandest, most generic horror movie you’ll ever watch. The whole big airplane scene completely misunderstands what made the original so good.
The movie focuses on the consequences of society's reliance on technology and its potential to turn against us. It examines how a cursed videotape becomes a conduit for supernatural terror, blurring the boundaries between reality and the digital world.
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With Carl Brisson, Lillian Hall-Davis, Ian Hunter. UK, 1927, 35mm, black & white, silent, 108 min. Print source: British Film Institute. Ostensibly a conventional melodrama about two fighters vying for the same woman, The Ring ’s experimental visual style reveals the full extent of Hitchcock’s audacity as a young auteur.
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