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A young teenage girl has died under mysterious circumstances. Doctors called it heart failure, but the look on her face told a different story. Something was wrong and no explanation was at hand. Rachel, an investigative reporter (also the girl's aunt) looks into her untimely death. Her findings lead her to what appears to be an urban legend: "Watch the tape and you die in seven days." Of course this can't be true, but after investigating more she discovers the girl secretly spent the previous weekend at a cabin with three friends. And upon further inquiries, she learns that all four kids died at exactly the same time, exactly seven days after the night at the cabin. This leads Rachel to the cabin itself.. and the tape. After watching it she realizes the legend is coming true. And now she has seven days to try to save herself by solving the mystery of The Ring.
This is the first horror/suspense movie I've seen that doesn't resort to "cheap scares" such as the "hide behind the door and jump at the camera" scare. Instead it draws on your own sense of expectations and leads you down a path of mystery as the plot thickens. Even though The Ring delivers a good story, it leaves alot of details out. And this is what really made the horror aspect of the movie so good: you are afraid of what you don't know and/or understand. Hopefully the sequel will be just as engrossing while still leaving a bit of the mystery unrevealed for the mind to ponder.
I recommend this to anyone that enjoys good thought provoking movies such as The Sixth Sense, The Others, Signs, Stir of Echoes, etc.
© 2003 Dreamworks Pictures
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| The tape... |
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| The phone rings, and the voice says: "Seven days." |
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| Oh, but I do want to hurt people. |
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| Shes coming. |
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| Special Effects: | 9 |
| Sound: | 9 |
| Cinema - tography: | 8 |
| Characters: | 7 |
| Plot: | 7 |
| Overall: | 8 |
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