The Ring (2002)
American remake of Japanese videotape horror Ringu, starring Naomi Watts and directed by Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean).
A mysterious videotape has been going around. Anyone who watches it dies in seven days. When her niece becomes the victim of this strange phenomenon, journalist Rachel Keller (Watts) investigates the situation only to get too deep. To save her son as well as herself, Rachel must do what others have failed to do and escape the cycle.
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- Writer:
- Ehren Kruger
- Cast:
- Naomi WattsMartin HendersonBrian Cox
Reviews & comments
Variety
pressComes across in muted fashion, with uninvolving characters and lack of genuine excitement or fright creating a second-rate, second-hand feel.
The Washington Post
pressThe creepiest, clammiest, twitchiest squealfest in months. It offers, among its many pleasures, the happiness of safe fear.
Entertainment Weekly
pressThe best thing about the movie, which is a very elegantly crafted piece of gothic snuff hokum, is the way it teases and intrigues us with the revelation of what's on that tape.
Variety
pressComes across in muted fashion, with uninvolving characters and lack of genuine excitement or fright creating a second-rate, second-hand feel.
The Washington Post
pressThe creepiest, clammiest, twitchiest squealfest in months. It offers, among its many pleasures, the happiness of safe fear.
Entertainment Weekly
pressThe best thing about the movie, which is a very elegantly crafted piece of gothic snuff hokum, is the way it teases and intrigues us with the revelation of what's on that tape.
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