Just as creepy as The Blair Witch Project

Rating: Null/10 (4 November 2002)

Wow, talk about a movie where you want to cover your face half the time because of the insane pyscho crap happening on the screen. The Ring has one of those great moody plots that is never resolved and is filled to the brim with dark images, shriek-inducing scares, and almost no time to breathe. It revolves around a reporter who investigates a VHS tape that kills anyone who watches it after 7 days prior to the viewing. The actual tape makes no sense the first time you watch it in the movie, with avant-garde shots of a ladder, a woman brushing her hair in a mirror, and much more. But as the mystery unfolds everything starts to fall into place, but will our heroine have time to uncover the biggest secret of all before her 7 days run out? Tension is raised with some help from a 'cinema cooking timer' of sorts that tells you how many days she has left. The only thing I have to say about this movie, and it isn't really negative, is that it tries to be a lot like The Sixth Sense. Think about it. It has a somber, depressed tone where everything is a dark black or blue, an eerie little boy who hears voices, and an ending that tries to be shocking by revealing the clues we might have missed. I think The Sixth Sense definitely had a better ending, since The Ring confused me somewhat before the credits finally rolled, but it still succeeded in making me think twice about shadows in the corner or strange sights at the corner of my eye. It doesn't take much to creep me out, and The Ring sufficiently scared the bejeezus out of me. I give it 4/4 stars.