The Ring | | Cast : | Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, Brian Cox | | Director : | Gore Verbinski | | Studio : | Universal Studios | | Format : | Color, Widescreen, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound | | Released Date : | October 18, 2002 | | DVD Released Date : | February 08, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
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| Rating |  | | Date | August 09, 2005 | | Summary | The ONLY horror movies that give me nightmares! | Content
 | Back in the 1980's, when I was in Elementary School, I saw my very first horror movie, Nightmare on Elm Street part 4. After that, I didn't see another horror movie until Middle School in the early 90's, I saw Friday The 13th part 7. After seeing Friday the 13th, I started really liking horror movies and started watching everything from Stephen King, every Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th, a lot more that aren't so popular and of course the Halloween movies. I was able to watch horror movies for years and years without being affected really. It was to the point that some horror movies were just putting me to sleep because they weren't scary. That is, until I saw The Ring and The Ring Two!
I saw The Ring in the theatre and from that first time, it scared me to death. I literally jumped during many scenes and after it was over, it wasn't really over for me. That night after I got back home, I couldn't sleep with the light off. I didn't want to see any static on my TV because I was so scared. My friend who I saw it with kept mentioning a static TV just to scare me and it worked. I have also had a few nightmares about Samara coming after me since I saw The Ring and especially, The Ring Two. The scariest thing that has happened to me was right after I saw The Ring Two in the theatre and that evening after I fell asleep, I swear I heard Samara speaking to me!! I swear it!!! It was her same voice that you hear in The Ring and it was like she was talking right in my ear!! The only thing I actually heard her say was the very first thing and very last thing she said. I heard her talking for a while but everything in the middle, I just didn't understand because it was like I was half awake and half asleep. All I was able to hear her say was "I never sleep because I'm not dead yet" and the very last thing she said was "wake up." After this happened, I decided to get rid of The Ring DVD, Rings DVD and not even buy The Ring Two because apparently, these films are going to just scare me to where I'll be terrified for the rest of my life!!
You know that saying, be careful what you wish for because you might just get it? Well I got a lot more than I wished for all right!!! For years before The Ring came out, I was wishing for a horror movie that would really scare me and this movie scaring me is an understatement!! I never wanted to be scared so bad by having nightmares!! Just the other day, I was watching The Travel Channel and there was this show on about different haunted places and this one mansion was built by an Opera singer who used to perform in her house to people and I thought it was interesting and it didn't scare me in the least UNTIL they had to show the Opera singer's ghost and the ghost looked EXACTLY like Samara, had her long black hair over her face like Samara and she started walking toward the camera which meant, towards me as well. For a second I was freaking out thinking she was going to come out of the TV!!! Before she got too close, I covered my eyes and then they showed another part in the mansion and I just changed the channel!! I think the part that freaks me out the most is when Samara is out of the well and coming toward the TV and in The Ring Two when you see her climbing the well, that creepy way she climbs the well!! For some reason, I cannot get those visions out of my head!!! So to say this movie is still affecting me to this day is a HUGE understatement!!! The thing I just cannot understand is WHY any other horror movie just either puts me to sleep or just wonderful to watch because of the acting or just cool to watch?? I'll NEVER understand what it is about Samara and The Ring and The Ring Two that just terrifies me!! Maybe it's the static TV and the fear of Samara actually coming out of the TV! |
| Rating | | | Date | August 05, 2005 | | Summary | great.....but not scary at all | Content
| Great movie, it starts with two teenage girls, katie and becca, talking about a tape that kills anyone who watches it in seven days. Until katie confesses that she saw the tape a week ago. Of course, she dies.
A while later at the funeral, Rachel learns about four other teenagers who died the exact same time as katie, all of them had watched the same tape.
So rachel goes to shelter mountain inn, were katie and her friends were staying, she comes across an unmarked video tape and watches it, it portrays disturbing images, like a nail going through a finger, and dead horses on a beach, when its over the phone rings, and a creepy voice says "seven days"
Now rachel only has a week to figure out how to live, but while watching the tape again she learns about Anna Morgan, a horse breeder who died of suicide. Rachel is determined to find out why Anna killed herself, and even travels to the morgan ranch to speak to her husband, Richard Morgan.
While reading the newspaper, she finds out the Anna Morgan in fact has a daughter, but when she asks richard, is only response is "I have no daughter"
Meanwhile, Rachel's son, Aidan, as been drawing strange pictures, When rachel calls him to ask him, he says "because she told me to" but who is she?
Still desperate for answers, Rachel goes to the Morgans family doctor, who tells her the anna suffered for hallucations, and they only happened when she was near her daughter, Samara.
A while later rachels travels back to the morgan ranch, were she watches a tape of Samara in the hospital. She doesn't see the ending though, because richard stops her, right before he kills himself.
now rachel and noah (her ex husband) go up to the barn where richard kept Samara so she couldn't hurt anyone. While there, they discover a strange tree burnt in to the walls, Rachel soon learns that its excatly the tree at shelter mountain inn. So they travel there. Soon, they find the well the Samara died in. Rachel falls in herself and has visions of Anna suffocating Samara and pushing her down the well. Rachel finds Samara'a body.
Now you might think that the movie would end there, but it doesn't and i'm not telling you how it ends.
Theres just one thing about the movie, the only thing that really scared me was katie's face in the closet, not because the way it looked, but because it was so unexpected. Samara's face at the end was probably the least scariest thing in the whole movie.
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| Rating | | | Date | August 05, 2005 | | Summary | Creepy, but very unrealistic | Content
| This movie was scary, but really it's so unreal. Who's ever really heard of if you "Watch this tape" then in ten days or whatever you're going to die? That's so ridicholous. When I first saw this movie I had to watch the rest of it just to see what would happen at the end, and I was just thinking I was so glad I rented this. Overall I don't think it's the best suspense/horror film out there. There are some parts in there that will make you a little scared but really it's not the best movie. Rent it if you want to see it. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 24, 2005 | | Summary | THE RING | Content
| I REMEMBER I WAS WATCHING THE RING AND SUDDENLY MY DOORBELL RANG, I PUT THE DVD ON PAUSE. IT WAS MY BEST FRIEND AND HER DAUGHTER AT THE DOOR. SO, I TOLD THEM TO JOIN ME AND WATCH THIS MOVIE. WHILE WE WERE WATCHING THIS MOVIE, MY FRIENDS DAUGHTER DID HER HAIR LIKE THAT LITTLE GIRL IN THE MOVIE AND SAT BESIDE US. SO, ME AND MY FRIEND WERE ASKING HER TO PASS THE POPCORN. WE LOOKED OVER AT HER AND SHE SCARED SOMETHING TERRIBLE OUT OF US. THAT'S WHEN YOU KNOW YOU ARE WATCHING A GOOD MOVIE, I WOULD RECOMMEND THIS MOVIE TO ANYONE. JUST DON'T HAVE ANYONE NEAR YOU THAT LOOKS LIKE THAT LITTLE GIRL IN THE MOVIE! |
| Rating | | | Date | July 22, 2005 | | Summary | wow! truly amazing! | Content
| After I was done watching this movie, I went around to all of my friends at school, asking them if they had seen The Ring. I would even ask people who I hardly KNEW if they had seen it! Even after seeing this MANY times, it would still give me goosebumps if I watched it again. The movie is about a reporter, who suddenly is interested in a case of two teenagers being killed at the same time on the same night. She soon finds out that the teens watched an sick and twisted VIDEO tape and died seven days later. Racheal, the reporter, ends up watching the movie herself and struggles for the answers before her time is up. After watching it, I was unable to sleep for weeks. this is truly a thriller! A MUST buy! |
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