Ring of Terror

1962
1.9| 1h11m| en
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A group of medical students undertake some silly and frightening endeavors in order to pledge a fraternity.

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Also starring Charles G. Martin

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Nonureva Really Surprised!
FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.
Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!
Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.
Rainey Dawn This movie is anything but scary. It's not interesting throughout most of the film. The bulk of the film is purely a snore - very boring. Don't waste your time with watching this movie unless there is nothing else to watch or do - really it's that bad. There are only a couple of scenes worth watching that is the beginning and the ending - and even then the beginning and the ending is, well, quite honestly worth missing. Well, there is one more worthless reason to watch this film - just to see for yourself just how bad it really is.The only reason I am going to give this movie a 2 is because I did get a chuckle out of the sheer awfulness of the film.2/10
wbswetnam If you have trouble falling asleep some night, try watching "Ring of Terror" - it will put you to sleep faster than a handful of Ambien. This supposedly "thriller / shocker" movie is just unbelievably dull. It starts out with some cemetery groundskeeper stumbling around in the dark looking for his cat. We are treated to about 5 minutes of this dolt calling "Puma" as he shambles around looking for the cat, at one point even stepping on it. We (as part of the camera) are led around to view a few gravestones, and the groundskeeper tells us "Ah, I remember him!" The rest of the movie is a long, incredibly dull story about some gerontological med school students who are pledging to join a fraternity. The pledges must do various silly tasks, one of which is to raid the local morgue to retrieve something from a body.This movie is a real snoozer, it isn't thrilling or terrorizing at all. The only other movie about pledging to a fraternity / sorority that I can think of which is as incompetent as Ring of Terror is Paris Hilton's "Pledge this!" (2006). Actually Pledge This is better because at least it has some nice boobs occasionally to break up the monotony - Ring of Terror has nothing going for it at all. Horrible in every way.
hitfan I watched this movie at 2:00 AM on DVD. It's one of those public domain cheapies that you can buy in the bargain bins. I got mine as part of the 50 movie megapack "Nightmare Worlds" for which I paid $20 for. So this movie basically only cost me 40 cents.The best part of the movie is the graveyard caretaker who opens and closes the movie. The setting up of this character really does provide the mood and atmosphere. While not the greatest movie, I found it entertaining nonetheless and I was wondering how the protagonist was going to have his demise.For fans of 'retro horror' this might be worth a look.
lemon_magic If you took a print of "Ring Of Terror" and put it next to a print of an actual horror film (say, the American remake of "The Ring"), I believe that the two film prints would annihilate other as if they were "matter" and "anti-matter", and the resulting flash of energy would create a crater a football field wide and 100 feet deep. And everyone within a mile of the blast would be deaf and blinded for a month. Oh, and also retarded.OK,I exaggerate. But only a little.The movie barely has enough plot for a 22 minute segment of a television horror/suspense anthology, but the director and screenwriter pad it out to just over an hour by adding a pointless, badly done framing sequence that obviously is meant to evoke "Tales From The Crypt". They also add an extremely irritating, contrived and unconvincing back story/sub plot involving the least believable "college students" in the history of cinema,who have to say and do things no human being has ever done in recorded history. I've seen this a couple of times (don't ask) and the second time around, all I could think was that either the "actors" called upon to work this screenplay either had no idea what they were doing and how bad it was (highly possible) or they DID suspect it, but soldiered on as best they could for the paycheck.In spite of the fact that the film features a cat, this film is a dog in every derogatory sense of the word. All that saves this from a one star rating is some moody B&W photography in the final "crypt" sequence, and the fact that I seem to feel sorry for the poor actor who played "Lewis Moffett" and struggled gamely with his thankless part. Poor guy.

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