The Ring

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[Vanilla]

One of the scariest films I ever seen,especially in the theatre.

[Hiccup]

Amazing film. Completely scary9.9/10

[Fanboy]

I haven't seen Ringu, so I don't know how it compares to that, but The Ring is a very creepy horror film. It works as a good mystery solving movie as well. Acting is good, direction is good and the story is very interesting. I just wish I didn't watch Scary Movie 3 before watching this.

B+

[75Live]

It's a decent little move. I enjoyed it the first time I saw it. I liked the tv scene and the end where the only way to save her son was to basically pass the curse to someone else.

B

[baumer]

I think this is the best horror film of the last 20 years. Completely freaky and so well directed. One of my top 100 films of all time.9.5/10My original review:Let's just get right to the point. The Ring is the scariest horror film I have seen in 20 years. Horror has been enjoying a healthy revival since 1996 when Scream got everyone interested in horror again. That is a good thing. What isn't so good is some of the cheap crap that has come out since then. For every film like The Sixth Sense and Blair Witch, you have a plethora of other films that have no idea what true horror is really about. Too many film makers think the best thing to do with horror is make a rockin' hardcore soundtrack and give us buckets of blood because this disguises the fact that most of them can't pace a film or invoke true chills. Gore Verbinski's The Ring returns to the roots of horror and pays homage to the early greats like Halloween and Psycho but almost goes a step past the greats, not quite but almost.The Ring does something that only a handful of horror films have done, and that is it stays in your subconscious hours and days and weeks after you watch the film. Gore Verbinski and Ehren Krueger have combined to make a masterpiece of modern horror that goes beyond anything that has come out for the last twenty years. This film is that good. For a guy who grew up loving films like Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street, I have been yearning for a film like this. A film that not only is a great scary film but a film that is a pure kinetic experience, one that makes me look behind me at my silent television sitting in the corner of the room. Is Samara there? When my radio begins to go haywire and search for stations on its own, is that Samara? This film gets inside of you and stays there. But it eats away at you like the nightmares that Malcolm McDowell is forced to watch in A Clockwork Orange. It attacks your mind and berates your senses. Samara is one bad ass villain. The Ring is a masterpiece and as I have already stated, this is the best horror film to come out since 1984 when Freddy Krueger stalked us in our dreams. The Ring may have it's roots in Japanese horror, but it owes much of its pedigree to all horror greats of the past, whether they are American, Canadian, Japanese or Italian. There is a bit of it all in here and the results are kinetic.When I watch a horror film, I know it is effective when that chill comes over you. Not the kind that makes you want to put a jacket on but the kind that literally starts from the nape of the neck and goes down the beginning of your butt. It's the chill that attacks your body and tells you that you are now at the mercy of the film and nothing you see from here on out is going to be expected. That is how The Ring is. The Ring had me scared. It had me nervous and it had me thrilled. Having fear envelop you is one of the most primal emotions you can experience. The Ring is a primal movie.There are a myriad of reviews in here that will tell you how amazing this film is, you should listen to them. This is a year that has been blessed with brilliant horror. With superb efforts like Mothman Prophecies, Frailty and now The Ring, 2002 should be known as the best year for horror films since the early 80's. If you only see one horror film this year, please see The Ring. If you want to be scared, see The Ring. It is a guarantee that this film will frighten and maybe even traumatize you. If films like The Changeling, The Shining and Halloween are synonymous with horror to you, then add The Ring to your vernacular.Oh, and you will never look at your television set the same again.And one final note. There is one infamous scene in this film, near the end, and I'm sure we all know what it is, and this is one of those scenes that will stand the test of time as one of the great images in horror films. I know horror aficionadoes will recall scenes like Hitchcock's shower scene, the bouncing ball in The Changeling, Michael Myers rising in the background at the end of Halloween, the head spinning scene in Exorcist, Freddy's tongue coming out of phone in Nightmare on Elm Street and Jason's first kill wearing his hockey mask in Friday the 13th Part III just to name a few. But *****************big spoiler here if you have not scene the movie********** when Samara comes out of the T.V., that is one of the most indefeasible and primal scenes I have seen in any horror film. It shocked me and thrilled me all at once. It is an image that will never leave my mind and it is just one of a plethora of scenarios that makes the Ring such an absolute masterpiece

[narniadis]

Decent as far as horror goes, not my favorite genre but I can appreciate how well crafted this one is....

[MovieMan89]

Probably the scariest horror film I've ever seen the first time I saw it, so for that alone it gets an A- from me. Not too many films have ever actually scared me. I will say I think it has awful repeat viewing though, where it loses almost all scariness. Still a cool concept, well executed.

[TheMovieman]

Not only is it scary but it's really the only good Western remake of an Asian horror film (and unfortunately spawned a few stinkers along the way, plus a sequel which was pretty bad IIRC).

[Warhorse]

A. Fantastic movie with an excellent cast and I just love the atmosphere all around. It's not the scariest movie I ever seen (Jaws to this day I find the scariest, probably because I find my ass in the ocean at least once a week) and, I also get more scares and chills from Poltergeist, but damn, The Ring is right up there.

[Jack Nevada]

I appreciate how the movie relies more on a nasty atmosphere rather than gratuitous jump scares and I like how high the production values are, resulting in better than usual cinematography and production design. It is a well made and scary horror movie.

 

I dont like, however, the fact that it was The Ring along with The Sixth Sense that created one of the stupidest and most cancerous horror movie tropes of the last decade. I'm talking about The Creepy, Monotonous Kids. I hate it, them with their pale faces and dark circles around their eyes and often wearing night gowns, babbling in a mock-innocent way "I wuv my mamma", "The voices tell me to do things" aaaargghhh I cant stand that shit. Its not scary, and it amazes me that using this plot element got as popular as it did. People are still doing today, the latest example being (albeit briefly) in The Conjuring. 

[DeeCee]

Just watched this again for the first time in years. Just about the perfect horror film. Very scary and nobody does anything stupid. Constant chills throughout.

[Omario]

one of the scariest movies i have ever seen.