A mixed bag.

Rating: Null/10 (14 June 2003)

Everyone seems to have mixed feelings about THE RING. Some (like me) think it was pretty damn scary. Others think it was pretty stupid.
THE RING is modeled after a Japanese horror film called RINGU. (It's supposed to be better, check it out.)
After the mysterious death of her niece, Rachel (Naomi Watts) starts trying to unveil the mystery. She finds and watches a videotape that, seven days after you watch it, will kill you. From there, she also finds the tragic story of the Morgan family. Rachel is determined not to die, and does her very best to figure out the videotape.
Does she? Watch the movie.
The videotape itself is pretty disturbing ... a bunch of random images is what you see at first, but as the movie goes on, you begin to piece together those images with parts of the plot. The only thing that kind of annoyed me was that, when one of those times comes, when something about the videotape begins to make sense, they show that part of the videotape and don't let the viewer figure it out for his or herself.
Anyway, this movie is sort of more of a psychological horror--if something like this really happened, you'd be pretty scared. Admit it. I would give THE RING an 8 out of 10.