The Ring
The Rings starring Naomi Watts features a videotape filled with nightmarish images leads to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days and it's viewers will have to pay with their own lives.
14 May 1983, Santa Monica, California, USA
4 September 1952, Rockville Centre, New York, USA
24 July 1990, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
1 June 1986, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
2 August 1968, Jamaica
28 October 1939, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
29 April 1954, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
December 11, 2016
A very strong movie in all the ways you need a horror movie to be strong. But it is a movie that could very obviously be better.
July 25, 2014
The Ring doesn't have the wiliness or conviction to exploit either a single mother's guilt over child neglect or our collective queasiness over potential bad seeds. It merely alternates these themes and toys with them.
July 25, 2014
An edgy, watchable film, but one that makes you feel more squeamish than screamish.
July 25, 2014
The slow pace gives us too much time to think about the story's lapses in logic. And Verbinski's style is so conventional that the various scare devices and horror images he throws on the screen feel oddly more comforting than frightening.
July 25, 2014
Watching The Ring won't kill you, but it could bore you half to death.
July 25, 2014
The filmmakers have wisely stayed close to the original's mood, which is somber and flat, with quick (near-subliminal) inserts and a soundtrack full of watery-grave groans and murmurs.
July 25, 2014
I hated it, but I grant that it does tap into a vein of technological horror -- the fear of the VCR! -- that will have young videophiles chatting it up for weeks.
July 25, 2014
The Ring, about a videotape that kills people, is so full of inconsistencies and plot holes that I stumbled from a recent screening with few answers, and a ton of questions.
July 25, 2014
One of the most intelligent and genuinely scary ghost stories to come around in a long time.
July 25, 2014
Though more expensive and less atmospheric than the Japanese picture, the film isn't at all bad.
July 25, 2014
Gore Verbinski creates an air of dread that begins with the first scene and never lets up, subtly incorporating elements from the current wave of Japanese horror films along the way.
July 25, 2014
The Ring, an elegantly creepy film set in a perpetual Seattle rainstorm, is interested more in eerie, unnerving thrills than bloodletting.
