Konterr Brilliant and touching

Ceticultsot Beautiful, moving film.

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Blake Rivera If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

lorcan-61881 Over the years,Japanese horror films have become a thing now with A tale of two sisters to Ju On to Audition,Ring started the whole thing. Ring tells the story about a woman who struggles with her job and raising her seven year old son and when her niece dies along with 3 other teens at the same time,same night of the same thing,she starts to investigate leading to story of a cursed videotape you watch and in seven days you die made by a woman with a terrifying and horrible past. Ring introduced Japanese icon Sadako. Ring is so horrifying and scary because of it having no crappy effects there is just creepy sound effects and a woman crawling out of a TV,the acting in the film is highly award winning,the film has not have any of your typical jump scares at all,the film has loads of creepy sound effects that somehow work with the scenes they use it on and this film only,the ending to the film is very scary as everybody knows. Ju On is scary and brilliant but it dose not beat Ring!!

Dalbert Pringle Though the overall plot-lines of 1998's "Ringu" and 2002's "The Ring" were almost identical - (Surprise! Surprise!) - I, personally, thought that the American remake, "The Ring", was, by far, a much more effective and chilling ghost/horror story, in the long run.After reading all of the gushing raves that "Ringu" was getting from excited reviewers - I cannot believe how downright disappointing and, yes, anti-climatic this film was, for the most part.Not only did Ringu's story fail to hold and sustain any genuine suspense and terror - But, it was also very weak, visually - And, on top of that - The Japanese actors all seemed to be such amateurs who were just bland and forgettable nobodies, completely lacking in the ability to create dynamic character portrayals.Nope - For me - This was definitely one of those mighty rare instances where a remake actually surpassed the original on all counts.

gavin6942 Ruthlessly murdered by her father, the ghost of a seer's daughter kills all those who watch a weird video after seven days; unless the viewer finds the escape clause.Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Hollywood horror had largely been dominated by the slasher subgenre, which relied on on-screen violence, shock tactics, and gore. "Ring", whose release in Japan roughly coincided with the stylistically similar "The Blair Witch Project" in the United States, helped to revitalize the genre by taking a more restrained approach to horror, leaving much of the terror to the audience's imagination. The film initiated global interest in Japanese cinema in general and Japanese horror cinema in particular, a renaissance which led to the coining of the term J-Horror in the West. This "New Asian Horror" resulted in further successful releases, such as "Ju-on: The Grudge" and "Dark Water".This really is the essential modern Japanese horror film. Not only did it launch a cycle of American remakes and get more people to notice Japanese horror, but it is terrifying in its own right. Some have tried to analyze it as a metaphor on motherhood or being about traditional Japanese culture. But really, it was just scary... and still is almost 20 years later.

SugarandIce I saw the American remake first and loved it. So naturally, the original would probably fail to impress me as I've seen it done already and on a higher budget, right? Wrong. The original deserves all the respect and praise it gets. There are several elements it does better than the remake: this includes the video which is far more psychologically disturbing and Sadako herself, whose scenes represent the pinnacle of horror. Our two leads are also pretty likable, though the son is unfortunately the creepy zombie I disliked in the remake.I'm sure some people won't be scared by this, especially since it s an older movie with a plot most are well versed in by now. But this movie must get credit for just how groundbreaking it was at the time. Personally, I think it holds up really well, considering I only saw it for the first time recently.