Podcast Episode Details

The Ring (2002) Review

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We watched The Ring and were treated to one of the most impressive and scary PG-13 movies ever made.

https://youtu.be/yzR2GY-ew8I

The Ring can be streamed with a Paramount + subscription, or for a nominal rental fee wherever movies are found.

Synopsis

A videotape that has the power to kill those who view it seems to be at the center of a string of four teenage deaths. 

Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) is a newspaper reporter who becomes interested in these deaths and takes it on herself to follow up. 

After she views the tape, Rachel begins to find herself being pulled deeper and deeper down the proverbial rabbit hole that seems to look a lot like a dark and ominous well.

Will Rachel be able to crack the story of how this video tape works or will she get more dead little girls than she bargained for?

Review

Directed by Gore Verbinski, The Ring is the American Remake of the Japanese 1998 film, Ringu. Gore went on to direct all of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, along with a few more big Disney projects.

The Ring was a tentpole classic horror movie almost as soon as it was released in 2002. 

The creepy concept of a video tape that kills was too much for anyone to resist, and the fact that the tape itself is viewed by the audience makes it so much more titillating.

The tone of The Ring is deadly serious, and it lands just right in the quiet of your darkened home on a Friday night. It feels morose and hopeless and creepy beyond compare. 

The tape is so dark and disturbing, but so vague that it taps into some gross center of things that people fear.