The Ring (2002)
Average Rating: 6.6/10
Reviews Counted: 180
Fresh: 128 | Rotten: 52
With little gore and a lot of creepy visuals, The Ring gets under your skin.
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Critic Reviews: 39
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 16
With little gore and a lot of creepy visuals, The Ring gets under your skin.
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A disturbing videotape appears to hold the power of life and death over those who view it in this offbeat thriller. A strange videotape begins making the rounds in a town in the Pacific Northwest; it is full of bizarre and haunting images, and after watching it, many viewers receive a telephone call in which they are warned they will die in seven days. A handful of teenagers who watched the tape while spending a weekend at a cabin in the mountains scoff at the threat, but as predicted, they all
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Cast
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Naomi Watts
Rachel Keller -
Martin Henderson
Noah -
David Dorfman
Aidan -
Brian Cox
Richard Morgan -
Jane Alexander
Dr. Grasnik -
Lindsay Frost
Ruth -
Pauley Perrette
Beth -
Amber Tamblyn
Katie -
Rachael Bella
Becca -
Sara Rue
Babysitter -
Shannon Cochran
Anna Morgan -
Daveigh Chase
Samara -
Alan Blumenfeld
Harvey -
Keith Campbell
Ship's Mate -
Gary Cervantes
Painter -
Joseph Chrest
Doctor -
Art Frankel
Cal -
Chuck Hicks
Ferry Worker -
Ronald William Lawrence
Library Clerk -
Richard Lineback
Innkeeper -
Coleen Maloney
Mourner #1 -
Catherine Paolone
Mourner #2 -
David Povall
Girl's Father -
Michael Spound
Dave -
Aixa Clemente
Nurse -
Sasha Barrese
Girl Teen #1 -
Joe Sabatino
Orderly -
Adam Brody
Male Teen #1 -
Sandra Thigpen
Teacher -
Joanna Lin Black
Cashier -
Stephanie Erb
Donna -
Tess Hall
Girl Teen #2 -
Billy Lloyd
Darby -
Maura McNamara
Girl On Ferry -
Lindsey Stoddart
Grad Student -
Guy Richardson
Librarian -
Carl Brisson
Jack Sander "Round One" -
Lilian Hall Davis
Nelly -
Ian Hunter
Bob Corby the champion -
Forrester Harvey
Harry the Traveling Sho... -
Gordon Harker
George -
Harry Terry
Barker -
Charles Farrell
Second -
Clare Greet
Gypsy -
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Bombardier Billy Wells
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It's a treasure hunt reduced to isolated jolts and more clues than you can shake a stick at (every fly on the wall and child's drawing bristles with unholy significance), and an utter waste of Watts.
A stylish Hollywood remake of the Japanese horror sensation that unfortunately has little personality of its own.
Elegantly shot by Bojan Bazelli and designed by Tom Duffield, with a chilling Hans Zimmer score, this visually stunning movie serves up generous dollops of designer creepiness.
Not everything it might have been, then, but decent enough to have you tracking down the original.
I found The Ring moderately absorbing, largely for its elegantly colorful look and sound.
The boo! factor is waaaay up there -- a nine on a scale of 10. But the makes-sense factor is something like a three, at best.
A well-made remake that adds quite a bit to the original story. Alas, The Ring also feels dated and dull.
For a remake and a modern Hollywood horror, it's pretty good.
This movie is very, very scary.
The movie is a dog from start to finish, with enough genre inconsistencies and plot holes to make it a textbook example of borrowing from too many divergent horror films to get anything right.
The one thing that stood out from this movie is the incredible cinematography.
The American version retains much of the original but does little to justify its existence beyond the commercial considerations of relocating the setting to Seattle and filling the screen with Caucasian faces.
The creepy exploration of the unknown and unexplainable is far more frightening than the violent killings that typify most horror films.
What if you watch the tape twice, do you get three and a half days then? If you fast forward through it do you get fourteen? How about pausing it to go to the bathroom? Or only watching half, getting bored and turning it off?
As a concept, it's flawed. As a remake, it's good. As modern horror, it's a firecracker.
Seat-moistening ... shot-by-shot faithful to the original film in many instances, yet fully capable of conjuring up molar-grinding moments of its own invention.
Based on a 1998 Japanese box-office smash, this electric shocker runs rings around its recent competition.
There were two points where I thought it was over, and both would have made for better endings than eventual finale.
Just in time for Halloween comes Gore Verbinski's chilling-to-the-bone suspense ride... guaranteed to have you biting your nails long after the film is done.
sets an atmosphere of creepiness that doesn't let up
Audience Reviews for The Ring
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- Dr. Grasnik: It means ever since that girl's been gone, things have been better.
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- Samara: [singing by the well] : Here we go, the world is spinning. When it stops, it's just beginning. Sun comes up, we all laugh. Sun goes down, we all die...
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- Becca: You start to play it and it's like somebody's nightmare. And then this woman comes on, smiling at you, right? Seeing you... through the screen. Then when it's over, your phone rings, someone knows you watched the tape... and what they say is, "You will die in seven days".
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- Noah: I can't imagine being stuck down a well all alone like that. How long could you survive?
- Rachel Keller: Seven days.
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- Librarian: You know, I'm not an idiot. You try and walk out of here with my file, and I'll be on you like white on rice, you understand?
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- Ruth: I spent four hours on the internet and I couldn't find one single case of a 16-year-old girl's heart just stopping. I spoke to three different doctors and not one of them could tell me exactly what happened to my daughter.
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Latest News on The Ring
April 27, 2010:
Paramount Preps The Ring 3-DParamount is moving ahead with plans for another sequel to "The Ring" -- and yes, it will be in 3-D.
January 8, 2007:
Remaker Focused on "The Host" and "The Ring 3"Since producing the American version of "The Ring" in 2002, producer Roy Lee has stayed...
October 18, 2006:
Naomi Watts to Star in Bay's Version of Hitchcock's "Birds"?Apparently Naomi Watts is itching to become the Queen of the Horror Remake. She's already done...
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