A Scary Horrer Movie? How did that happen?

Rating: Null/10 (9 May 2003)

The Horrer Genre over the years has degredated into teenage supermodels running around half naked in the woods being picked off by Axe murderers. Somewhere along the line people forgot that Horrer movies were suposed to scare you beyond a few startles. Enter: the Ring, this movie was an exelent example of what a horrer movie SHOULD be. It's not just another blood and guts slasher flic, in fact the movies suceeds in scareing the crud out of you wihtout showing more than a few drops of blood in the entire film. The ring follows a female reporter who investigates a mystrios video that suposadly kills you seven days after you watch it. After veiwing the video, she finds out not only that it's real but that it kills you in the most horrible way possible: It scares you to death. Victems of the video are found with a horrible looks of terror etched on thier face. Not only does this woman have to figure out how to survive the vieo by solving it's mysteries, she has to save her son who watches the video himself! The director does an exelent job of being very spooky. Scenes don't jump around like most movies, it uses very slow cuts and disoves to give the movie a very slow pace, and belive it or not the slow pace makes the film. You find yourslef stuck in a slow process of anticipation, you don't know what's going to happen, but you fearful of it. The reason this movie is so freak is it INCLUDES you as part of the film. You have to think that since you yourself saw the video, that your in the same situation as anyone else. You know that it's just a movie but in the back of your mind you can't forget what you saw and the fear is still there. Basicly your freaked out, and will stay freaked out for days after you've seen it. You won't be able to walk though a dark hallway with the same vigor ever agian. And don't think your to big a man to be freaked out this movie: that kind of man does not exist. This is the first move to ever really scare me. My advice? Check it out, you won't regret it. It's a purly entertaining, and it'll have you guessing until the very end.