Glad I waited until it came to the discount theater

Rating: 6/10 (26 January 2003)

This movie is not nearly as scary as everyone made it sound. My friend had me believing it was so scary that while i was waiting for it to start I was wondering if I should have decided to see Die Another Day instead. Well, I'm glad I saw it for only $4 w/ unlimited soda and popcorn, but I won't be seeing it again.
Short summary: If you happen to watch this videotape, you'll die in 7 days. After her niece's mysterious death, Rachel finds the tape and watches it. She decides to figure out who made the tape and why, and how to possibly avoid death, before her time is up.
To me, there are different horror categories. First there are the realistic and the unrealistic. Realistic are the ones with human serial killers or ghosts. In the unrealistic, the "killers" may be some kind of robots, aliens, or in the case of The Ring, a videotape. I like watching both types, but the realistic kinds scare me more because I walk out knowing something like that could really happen, or have happened. There are 3 other groups to divide horror movies. There's the scary ones(like Scream), the creepy/spooky ones(like The Others), and the sad/freaky ones(like The Ring). This movie will probably scare some people, but not me. I usually get scared at movies that have a lot of suspense and moments that make me jump. This movie was suspenseful, but there was no moments to jump. And I don't understand why people would scream. It really is more of a mystery type movie than a horror movie. And even though I gave this a 6/10, if you like horror movies you should watch it anyway.