Ring
July 27th 2011 07:26
Director: Hideo Nakata
Screenplay: Hiroshi Takahashi (based on the novel by Koji Suzuki)
Production: Japan
Year: 1998
Sub-genre tags: J-Horror, ghost, supernatural
Logline: One curse, one cure, one week to find it
Core cast: Nanako Matsushima (Reiko), Rie Ino'o (Sadako), Miki Nakatani (Mai), Yuko Takeuchi (Tomoko), Hitomi Sato (Masami)
Memorable moment: Sadako, her face obscured by her long black hair, climbing out of the well and walking slowly, and weirdly, toward the camera/viewer.
Curious Facts: Novelist Koji Suzuki was inspired by his favourite horror movie Poltergeist. The Japanese title, Ringu, is taken from the Anglo-American verb, to ring the telephone, and has nothing to do with the visual circular rings of the American remake, The Ring.
Intensity levels:
Blood & gore: low
Fear factor and/or frights: high
Likelihood of bad dreams (disturbing content): medium
Horrorphile’s two cents: Ringu is a richly atmospheric film that lingers on images, yet its contrivances solidify its cumulative effect ...The fabric of a dream stretched into reality and inverted into a nightmare; Ringu is a plague of visual doom.
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