Well, it's about as scary as Army of Darkness ... although, it does have one slightly creepy scene involving a nurse. Yeah, Bruce Campbell as Elvis. You gotta love it.

I enjoyed the film only because of the humor. The scares were weak, and it took too long getting started (Elvis doesn't get out of bed until a quarter of the way into the film). But, if you're a Campbell fan, you have to at least rent it.

It seems like it will be a comedy, and the premise is absolutely ridiculous, but it is amzing. it takes itself very seriously and actually ended up being not-very-cheesy at all.

To everybody
I just watched the ring last night, and I have to admit, it was pretty spine-chilling for many reasons. One of the main reasons I was scared was because of what all of you guys said earlier...the dreadful atmosphere. It was always raining, and throughout the movie they showed several scenes of darkened hazy clouds rushing across the horizon in a fast speed motion.
ALso, like STingy said...the imagination was left up to me in the end...I was not sure what was going to happen next. As I opened the dvd player after the movie I asked myself...WIll the killer keep killing? WHat is going to happen to the mother and boy? Will they die or what? As I played this out in my imagination, I basically feared the unknown.
The plots were sure suprising in that movie which left me "on the edge of my seat" the entire time. For one, that girl walking through the TV shocked me so much, I actually screamed and woke everybody up thinking I was on an LSD acid trip again. I had to shut off the TV for a few mins to regain my consciousness. If that movie wasnt for those elements of dreaded atmosphere, shocking terrifying plots, and the unknown, it would have been a PURE mystery movie without any horror in it. I am going to watch the Ringu Jappy version and compare it there. Was anybody as shocked as I was in that The Ring movie or what??!

Most people will tell you that ringu was better. I, however, will not. I liked the ring better, but judge for yourself.


Originally, the end of The Ring was going to have rachel somehow getting the tape into the posessionof a character played by Chris Cooper (The marine corps dad from American Beauty), who happened to be a convicted child murderer who had recently been released.

It would have ended things with some degree of finality, plus, it would have given some justice and an "up" ending to the whole thing. They decided against it and ended up with the dark cliffhanger that made the final cut, and made the movie great :)

i like the whole terror of it like sometimes you think one thing is going to happpen then something else does in stead

What really makes that movie great for me is the question: "What the hell did this ghost DO to these people to fuck up their faces like that?" We never get to see what she does to kill them, but the looks on the victims' faces are so creepy that your imagination goes wild. Which brings me to:

The Ring vs. Ringu: I liked The Ring better than Ringu in all respects but one ... the scene where the girl comes out of the TV. In Ringu, she comes out of an old TV set in a tiny apartment room ... and if I remember right, that room was carpetted with wood paneling, etc. It was a more immediate scene for me, because it looked like it was happening in a house that I could possibly live in (unlike the ultra high-tech high-rise apartment in The Ring). Also, the actress playing the ghost in Ringu was extremely freaky. She used Japanese Kabuki theater methods in her crawl and her walk, which were so perfect and spine-tingling that the same scene from The Ring becomes a walk in the park. But the victims faces, which for me were the greatest source of scares, were far creepier and more hideous than those in Ringu (which I think were nothing more than the actors trying to hold a scream-freeze).

I need to watch The Ring again. TrueHorror's enthusiasm rubbed off! :D

The faces in the ring were basically the special effects guys saying "how freaky can we make this?" Amazingly, the ones in the movie were used because they werent as scary as their first set, and they were going for a pg-13 rating. Imagine how bad those had to be.....

they do give you a hint as to what is supposed to be happening jsut before they both die:

http://scaredyet.net/pics/ring/ring1.jpg
http://scaredyet.net/pics/ring/ring27.jpg

Their faces are distorted in horror. Samara scared them to death, and it was so intense, it actually distorted their features.

Is that what happened? She simply scared them to death? I mean ... damn. Their faces are pretty fucked up. She must have done something pretty frickin' scary. I thought she did some sort of mind control thing on them, or something. She had the power in life to kill people just by looking at them, isn't that right?

Damn. I want to see the original faces. If they were bad enough to give the film an "R" rating ... Just a face?? EH ... maybe they were just bloody and brainy with dangling eyeballs or something lame like that.

Apparently, the crew had a hard time looking at them, not for gore,but because they were just freaky...

Samara is hinted at being a powerful psychic, and since she was evil, it was like she emenated it, projecting her hate into everyone and everything around her. She is actually a VERY interesting character if you read into things.

btw, have you seen the Pinchy Jack pic yet? if not, check out my galley. I bet youll get a kick out of it :D

Every time I go into Borders I see the novel that Ringu was based on. I think about buying so I can get a few more insights, but I never do. There is also a manga book out based on The Ring, that I have flipped through ... but never read. Have you read any of this stuff?

No, i havent even seen any of it sitting around. I actually havent been to a bookstore in forever, let alone actually READ a book that wasnt a cookbook....

I have been getting better recently though. I have been curious about his stuff, because the Ringu story has several sequals.

I think the "fear of the unknown" affects a lot of people. Here I am talking about wanting to buy the novel Ring so I can get answers ... and think about all that supplementary reading material that came out when Blair Witch did. People were buying that stuff up, trying to get answers as to what happened. People want to know. They need to know. But, once you know ... you've ruined the whole thing. That's probably why I will never read the novel.

Damn.. I want to see the original faces as well.

Is that why you havent check out your picture yet? Just kidding.

Fear of the unknown is what i think drives most fear, if you bore down to it's core. it's the "what if" that does it. uncertainty is awful because it shatters your confidence. A know-it-all that realises he doesnt know something usually experiences a moment of panic.

For more on fear, check out Scared Yet .Net . :)

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