Ring (Ringu) - A 1998 Japanese Supernatural Horror Movie
Ring Tagline
One curse, one cure, one week to find it
Ring Synopsis
Within a week of watching a mysterious videotape, a group of teenagers are dead. The bodies are found gruesomely contorted, their eyes frozen as if they had seen something more terrifying than any physical threat.
The video becomes an urban myth. Insidiously, an unseen force is pointing it's deadly finger at those poor souls unable to resisit their curiosity. One of those people is the cynical journalist Reiko, who soon finds herself unwillingly drawn into a spiralling nightmare of fear from an unseen, omnipresent threat.
The most unsettling film since The Exorcist, with an unnatural presence that touches every nerve in your body, Ring is a breast of an entirely different order. Critically acclaimed as one of the most frightening horror movies in years, Ring delivers a tense spine-chilling atmosphere, filled with an overwhelming sense of dread and a potent presence of unworldly evil.
Dark, sinister and genuinely horrifying, this is a movie you will never forget.
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Ring Movie Review
Ring (AKA Ringu) is probably one of the best know Asian horror movies and started the craze for Japanese horror in English speaking countries and inspired a number of poor Hollywood remakes of classic Asian horror. The reason for this is that Ring is a truly original and frightening movie, especially due to the fact that Asian horror was relatively unheard of in these parts, the Japanese method of horror directing must have seemed strange and new and an unsettling experience for the unadjusted viewer.
The movie revolves around a mysterious videotape containing bizarre imagery that is becoming a bit of an urban legend amongst the teenagers of Japan. The legend states that after watching the tape the viewer will receive an ominous phone call and within a week they will be dead, with a contorted expression on their face as if they had seen the most terrifying thing ever. Obviously this inspires curiosity and before long news of the videotape has spread.
Reiko, a sceptic journalist decides to write an article about the videotape of terror and her investigation soon turns up a copy of the tape. Having watched the tape she is convinced the legend is true and when she discovers that her only child has got up in the night and viewed it also she has one week to unravel the mystery and save her offspring.
He investigation leads her to the family of a now-dead troubled girl with supernatural powers named Sadako. Due to her disturbed upbringing she has vowed to get bloody revenge on the world and the videotape is her way of doing it.
This movie is not full of gore or shocks but is a very haunting and disturbing story and the low-budget special effects are used to great effect to create a feeling of fear, plus you are left at the end of the movie wondering if the phone is going to ring and seal your fate in one weeks time.
This was the first Japanese horror movie that I had ever seen and I must admit that the style of movie was very alien to me… it had a big impact on my horror movie watching habits and I am truly grateful for it!
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