Stop that, that's silly!!

Rating: 4/10 (9 June 2003)

(Very mild spoilers)
Remember that classic Monty Python skit about the old women stealing babies? Mid-way through, a man in a British army officer uniform breaks in and stops the skit, Complaining that "this was a perfectly good skit about stealing babies and then it got SILLY so next time hat happens I'm going to stop it.
Right? RIGHT!".
Something like that needed to happen in the last 20 minutes on The Ring. What started out as a perfectly good B horror movie got ridiculous. Not the "it's coming out of the TV" part (I apologize to those who genuinely were scared as horror is a very personal thing) or cheesy "sucked dry" corpse, but the sad "answer" at the end that points out about 40 plot holes big enough to dive a
MAC truck through (already listed by many others) What could have been an
unsettling vague ending with a memorably creepy Surrealist B&W video
(reminiscent of NIN "Closer video) to haunt your dreams is spoiled by the
implausible explanation.
The film is undeniably well crafted and the acting is above "B" quality, but many "B" films have been more unsettling simply by witholding the answers and letting the visuals or atmosphere linger without Zombie Stalker horror or
ridiculous coicidences and plot devices. Reference the original "Phantasm",
"Blair Witch Project", "Picnic at Hanging Rock" or "Dead Ringers" for films with similarly implausible subject matter that are extremely effective by what they DON'T include. As stated above, horror is a personal experience and what
scares some may make other (me) laugh in the theatre despite my best efforts. A little subtlety at the denoument could have made this an eerily effective thriller instead of something that falls apart at the end.