The Ring is a 2002 American remake of the 1998 Japanese horror film (also known as Ringu). Both films are based on the novel of the same name by Kôji Suzuki. Directed by Gore Verbinski and starring Naomi Watts and Martin Henderson, The Ring was a critical and commercial success.
The film focuses on a mysterious cursed videotape which contains a seemingly random series of disturbing, black and white images. After watching the tape, the viewer rece...
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The Ring is a 2002 American remake of the 1998 Japanese horror film (also known as Ringu). Both films are based on the novel of the same name by Kôji Suzuki. Directed by Gore Verbinski and starring Naomi Watts and Martin Henderson, The Ring was a critical and commercial success.
The film focuses on a mysterious cursed videotape which contains a seemingly random series of disturbing, black and white images. After watching the tape, the viewer receives a phone call in which the voice of a girl condemns the viewer to death in seven days.
As the film opens, two teenage girls, Katie Embry (Amber Tamblyn) and Rebecca 'Becca' Kotler (Rachael Bella), discuss a supposedly cursed tape while home alone at Katie's house. Katie reveals that, seven days before, she went to a cabin at Shelter Mountain Inn with friends, where she viewed the video tape. The girls laugh it off, but after a series of strange occurrences in the next few minutes, involving a television in the house turning itself on,...
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