Thank Heaven for Little Girls ...

Rating: Null/10 (1 March 2003)

Linda Blair in "The Exorcist", the twins in Stanley Kubrick's version of "The Shining" and now this girl in this movie. CREEEEPYYYYYY!!!!
I've been watching movies filed under "Horror" since I was about 8 years old and I'm in my early 30's right now. There are very few "Scary Movies" I've found to be genuinely scary and able to make one feel uneasy: "The Exorcist"(especially if you have your VCR hooked up to your stereo), "The Shining" (again, the sound among many other things), "Hallowe'en" (mainly the music), David Cronenberg's version of "The Fly" (for his audacity to put in everything he DID put in), ...
And now, THIS MOVIE.
Okay, there are a whole bunch of things that can be found wrong with this movie; a lot of it seems like you're watching This Movie meets That Movie meets Another, and so on. But originality (or lack thereof) aside, THIS MOVIE SCARES.
Oddly, there are movies I find scary that don't get filed under Horror, even though they do scare. For example, there were quite a few times during the first half-hour of "Saving Private Ryan", I had to keep reminding myself that I was not in danger of getting drilled into Swiss Cheese or being blown up, I was sitting at home in my Living Room watching the most unsettling battle scene I'd ever seen on ANY screen.
I'm not saying "Saving Private Ryan" should be filed under Horror; I'm just giving an example of the difference between a Movie that Scares and a Scary Movie.
The Ring is BOTH of these. To the folks who made it, both behind the camera and in front, TAKE A BOW.
That's a wrap.