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The Ring [2003]
starring: Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, Brian Cox, David Dorfman, Jane Alexander
directed by: Gore Verbinski

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Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 5050583004365
Format: PAL
Label: Vision Video Ltd.
Manufacturer: Vision Video Ltd.
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Vision Video Ltd.
Release Date: September 01, 2003
Running Time: 110 minutes
Studio: Vision Video Ltd.
Theatrical Release Date: October 18, 2002
Sales Rank: 13285

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
An unexpected marriage of big-budget production values and low-budget instincts, The Ring offers chills to be savoured. Usually when Hollywood indulges its cash-hungry game of remaking foreign films the result sacrifices much of what made the original so special. Clearly, the supremely eerie supernatural vibe that permeated the legendary 1998 Japanese horror film must have done something to those Hollywood suits, because Gore Verbinski's remake is actually rather good. Certainly, it's not superior to the original, but it's undoubtedly a cut above most modern horror efforts, expertly wringing every drop of suspense. The impressive Naomi Watts (Mullholland Drive) plays a journalist investigating an urban myth of a videotape that kills the viewer a week after watching it. Succumbing to curiosity, she watches it herself--big mistake--and has a week to solve the mystery or fall victim to its sinister power.

While transferring the action from Japan to modern-day Seattle may weaken the impact of the plot's mythological elements, and the film may be guilty of pointless padding (belying the original's lean format), Verbinski's effort is no less squirm-inducing, bolstered with a tremendous shocker of an ending. Exquisitely utilising the strong visual sense displayed in The Mexican, Verbinski creates a thick atmosphere of dread and suspense that never lets up, thankfully favouring old-fashioned scares, rather than retreating to blunt CG spectacle. In Watts, the film has a horror heroine who far exceeds the average wide-eyed scream queen, perfectly conveying the endless stream of bone-chilling moments. --Danny Graydon

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Pathetic vs the Original
Another botched job by Hollywood failures. It seems the creativity well has become so dry that film makers are ever increasingly snapping up classic movies from other cultures and failing miserably to comprehend what made them successful the first time around.

Cinematic Arse Gravy of the worst kind.

Rating:

- Then you die

Every horror buff knows -- the horror that creeps up on you gradually is much, much scarier the one who bounces out and yells "boo" as it decapitates somebody with a machete.

And sadly, most current "horror" movies lack horror, because it's easier to substitute it with screaming blondes, blood, guts and sharp objects. But "The Ring" is soaked in foreboding, creepiness and horrific imagery. Director Gore Verbinski relies heavily on the original Japanese movie for a lot of his remake's flavor, and the result is a slow-building terror that keeps twisting right up to the end.

Single mum Rachel (Naomi Watts) is attending her niece's funeral, after she died under bizarre circumstances. Several of her friends died on ... Read More:

Rating:

- Another Terrible Dumbed Down Remake
The Ring is as my review title says a dumbed down special effect dissaster created for the American population.
If I had not already withnessed the excellent Japanese Original then perhaps I would have given it a higher rating.
Samara is a cheap excuse for Sadako and does nothing to enhance the fear level.
I find the story is quite fitting for fans of "basic structure" storyline such as power rangers the movie and Scream.
By all means by it but I warn you there is no soul in this movie, it's yet again another souless remake made in the states because people refuse to read subtitles.

Pathetic.
On the plus side this is one of the best J-Horror Remakes for the US but that doesn't really say much.

Rating:

- quite good~

The ring-review
Staring: Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman
Directed by: Gore Verbinski
Review by: Oliver Joseph 10.2

Horror strikes the city of Seattle, through the TV; soon the world would be haunted by a terrifying video cassette. A mother finds her teenage daughter in a little room with a haunted-mangled face, later they find out the girls is dead, the post-mortem show no reason for here to be dead!

The film is set in the city of Seattle, staring Naomi Watts as Rachel Keller, Martin Henderson as Noah Clay and David Dorfman as Aiden Keller, these three fight against time to save their lives and find out the mystery of the Morgans. They only have seven days after they receive ... Read More:

Rating:

- Read Twaddles Review
As Twadle said, What scares, this was the most hyped rubbish I have seen. I must have been watching a different film, in my view don't waste your time and money, as we were, you will be very disapointed.

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