“The Ring” is one of my favorite remakes of an already
effective Japanese horror film called “Ringu”. The American version stars Naomi
Watts as a reporter for a Seattle newspaper that has seven days to figure out
the mystery of why people are dying after watching a bizarre video tape. It’s a
creepy ghost story that has an excellent set of pacing, spooky clues, and a
seemingly original ghost concept. I say seemingly because the original Japanese
version of this ghost is a part of their culture and history and is a
reoccurring theme in their own ghost stories. It’s also interesting when a
movie takes place at a location that you are familiar with and notice what
details the film makers get right and what they get horribly wrong.
Rachel Keller is a journalist who begins investigating an
urban legend after her teenage niece suddenly dies. The legend concerns an
unmarked VHS tape and anyone who watches the tape will die after seven days.
Rachel learns that her niece and her group of friends that had watched the tape
all died the same night at the same time. Rachel finds a copy of the tape and
watches it and after it finished, she received a phone call where a girl’s
voice simply says “Seven days”. With the
help of her son’s father Noah, Rachel discovers the truth behind the tape and
mystery of the young girl named Samara.
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