The Ring
TITLE: The Ring
DIRECTOR: Gore Verbinski
RELEASE DATE: 18 October 2002
MPAA RATING: PG-13
IMDB: Link here
CAST:
Naomi Watts Rachel Keller
Martin Henderson Noah Keller
David Dorfman Aiden Keller
Brian Cox Richard Morgan
Jane Alexander Dr. Grasnik
Lindsay Frost Ruth Embry
Amber Tamblyn Katie Embry
REVIEWS:
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By Ian, 22 October 2002.
you all must go see the ring!!! come on please.... just do it!!! dont listen to sean. he speaks in lies!!!
By Sean, 23 October 2002.
Its a good movie, although it could use more on-screen corpse-time.
By Phil, 25 October 2002.
what a lame story line for a horror movie. Honestly we laughed at it. I think we have sick demented minds. The part with the horse and the boat was the best part, and we all laughed whith the part with the little girl and her mother at the well... We need help.
By Carey, 6 March 2003.
Who saw the movie "The Ring" when it was in theatres? That must have been one of the worst movies ever created. I've seen some pretty bad flicks too, like "Grease II", which was just terrible. I mean honestly, who sings about going back to school after summer break like they did in Grease II. But anyways, "The Ring" had the worst story line ever, I mean it copied off the "Sixth Sense", which wasn't all that great by itself, by using a small nerdy kid as a main character who communicates with the scary people. When I went to see the ring the people I went with and I all literally laughed the entire movie while everyone else was foolish enough to be scared at all. And now they're releasing "The Ring" on VHS and DVD, why can't they just spare us the agony?
By Ian (#2), 6 March 2003.
it was a good psychological horror flick. you dont get many of those these days. most movies these days are your over done "creepy guy runs around killing people" horror flicks. this one did something creative.
keep in mind this is an americanized version of a japanese horror movie, ringu, and they changed a lot of things. like throwing children into it, which i dont know if i really liked either.
but over all, the ring had a good creepy mood to it, and had a surprise twist ending, (which they expound upon on the DVD in special deleted footage).
i thought it was a refreshing glimpse at what horror/suspense movies can be in a day and age where devil toothfairies with porcelain masks fly around and have light phobias, or aliens invade earth, can jump 20 feet into the air without hesitation, but cant kick down a closet door and are killed by glasses of water.
honestly, i'd take the ring over the latest scream/know what you did last summer knockoff/sequel any day.
By Phil (#2), 6 March 2003.
They just overdid it on The Ring. They tried too hard to jam too many creepy things into an hour and a half, already crappy storyline. I dont know if I laughed harder when the fly on the screen gave her a bloody nose, when the woman dropped her daughter in the well, or when the horse jumped off the boat. I did not find The Ring scary at all. And the "scariest part", when the girl climbed out of the screen, how predictable was that? I remember thinking to myself, "what next, she gonna come out of the tv?" The Ring was a big let-down.
By Sean (#2), 6 March 2003.
I thought the Ring, for being a mainstream horror film, actually was entertaining and even did some surprising things at certain parts. I thought the atmosphere built up was pretty creepy, and the scenes with the decaying corpses were pretty cool (if those scenes had lasted longer, the movie would be a million times better.) Its not up to par with say, Blood Feast 2 or Suspiria, but its a pretty good film for being where its at. Probably has something to do with the fact that its a rip off of a Japanese film anyways.
By Alisa, 6 March 2003.
the ring scared the crap out of me. first movie since ghostbusters (i was 2) that scared me and gave me nightmares. i admit the kid thing didnt quite fit. well the fact that the kid could communicate with the creepy giril was hokey.
By Carey (#2), 23 March 2003.
The Ring was bad. i give it five turkeys.
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