Jesus!! (spoilers)

Rating: 9/10 (14 April 2003)

Now this flick will definitely scare the sh*t out of you! Demonstrate it for you on a "scary" scale from 1-10: Evil Dead/House on haunted hill ('99) = 6, What lies Beneath = 7½, Signs/Exorcist = 8½, The Ring = right off the scale! If you are a wannabe (or perhaps to-be someday) horror movie director, I seriously suggest you give this a viewing, since this is by far the best example of getting the maximal effect out of minimal effects. Gore Verbinski, you a re a true genius. The plot has very much potential (just happens I had this idea of a net site that pops up randomly causing deaths... oh well...), but it's the sense for visuals of Verbinski that REALLY boosts it all up. And talk about the ending... that b&w chick coming through the TV screen is just one haunting image and an instant classic, deserving its place right up there with similar over-the top scenes in horror genre like "The chestburster" from "Alien", "Michael's gone" in the end of "Halloween" and "the twisting head" from "The Exorcist", just to name but a few. BTW, after seeing "The ring", I just can't take my eyes off the TV screen when it's not on... I swear, if it happened to turn on showing static, I'd die of a heart attack.