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Jjack ✿ 8 月 22, 2026
i love this pretentious demon doing The Absolute Most with her experimental art film…go off ms. samara..a true auteur
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So this is where all the “Share if u don’t want 2 die 2nite” Facebook posts come from. Edit: rip Daveigh man, life’s a bitch and then you die (hopefully not from this tape)
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that scene where rachel gets bodyslammed by a 2002 tv and fucking catapulted into the well is so fucking funny i’m sorry but it gets me every time
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a movie made to frighten a generation that left their kids in front of the tv to entertain them
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all i’m saying is if this bitch wanna storm out of my fucking samsung smart tv and ruin it, she gotta buy me a new one
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the story of a woman who only has 7 days to analyze the meaning of an avant-garde experimental art film. just take a cinema studies class, girl!
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first horror movie ever
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Less scary than I hoped. Felt like a really good but bland movie, but also not bland.
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First time watching this movie. I thought this such a sweet movie about a mother freeing the spirit of a little girl… Then I realized there were still 15 minutes left 🌚
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filme cocozento
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A symbol of early‑2000s horror, quoted and re‑quoted across countless later works, it finds its strongest side in that pre‑YouTube digital‑nightmare aesthetic: the cursed VHS, the glitchy imagery, the idea that a supernatural threat can spread like a proto‑viral piece of media. It works almost as a sociological phenomenon rather than a horror film, giving weight to the urban‑legend vibe that younger audiences once carried around like folklore. Gore Verbinski builds a thriller‑drama that leans on horror in a way…
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watching this at night in the woods was fun lmao
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Da bambino era il mio film prefe
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film carino, la musica enfatizzava bene le emozioni dei personaggi e creava ansia e paura nei momenti giusti, bello come quando si accende la tv al posto di scappare restino lì e anzi si avvicinino.
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Pretty good
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Body was not tea
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prime definition of “curiosity killed the cat” bc why did she watch the tape lol
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I hate that fucking kid
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Always loved the tone and colour palette of Gore’s work when he does horror and hope he makes a return. Despite an excellent performance by Naomi Watts, it lives in the shadow of Japanese film. Still, works as a very safe introduction to horror for anyone wanting to dip they toes with a movie that also works as a pretty solid mystery/suspense film.
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God i miss color grading. This movie is so pretty and the cinematography is excellent. It was not at all what I expected. The emphasis on mystery and detective work really made the movie. I loved the twists. Its a shame that the only thing that holds cultural relevance for this movie is the creepy girl caus honestly its the least interesting part.
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Get the tape, play at the field with 200+ people, Samara hunt one by one until she tired so much, and then she give up, she never do that again. Done and absolutely cinema
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A time capsule of early 2000s technology intertwined within a story of ghost girls, psychic boys, and desperate mothers, all awash with a blue/green tint. Genuinely the cinematography, setting, and soundtrack of The Ring is so melancholically beautiful, such as within the scene where Rachel overlooks her neighbouring apartment building into their windows, and watches the inhabitants go about their lives, it’s somber and quietly moving.
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comfort movie
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Aidan scares me
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You either fw physical media or you live seven days to have physical media fw you.
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Wowowow je vais mourrir dans sept jours moi aussi ?
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Filme mt bom, só q fica traumatizada olhando para uma tv escura
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omg adam brody
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This is such an art piece of a horror film, I can’t believe it took me so long to finally watch it.
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There is a lot to The Ring. I felt like it was a murder mystery and I was a part of solving this crime. I loved the storyline and the video within it. It gave my brain something to pick apart instead of doing that to the movie. Not that the distraction was needed, I loved absolutely all of the acting. That little boy was horrifying and I loved how he mirrored Samara. It was one of the many diversions…
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I obviously had really high expectations for this film due to the iconic TV scene but it didn’t really live up to my expectations. I didn’t think it was terrible or anything but I didnt find it psrticu scary and I didn’t find the overarching story surrounding Samara particularly interesting. I couldn’t get very connected to the characters and both of them just kind of acted stupid and a little annoying. 😭 again not a terrible film just not up…
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Genuinely so boring
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Aalchemistghost 8 月 21, 2026
I do like how the research for the tape’s origins was altered from the original Japanese version, I don’t understand why they made this movie so horse focused though, not a change I hate just one I don’t fully get
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Excellent j en ai chier à le regardé
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Onion ring
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povero cavallo
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O filme mais verde de todos os tempos. Como exala anos 2000! Gostei bastante do suspense e da investigação, muito intrigante e interessante de se acompanhar. O pilar do terror também é bem estabelecido, mas não é tão traumatizante como imaginei quando era criança. Na infância eu tinha pavor da Samara, fui assistir isso aqui achando que seria um dos filmes mais assustadores de todos, mas é meio tranquilo até (não quer dizer que é fraco, pelo contrário). Dito isso,…
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A little known fact about me is that as a child I was essentially fearless and wasnt scared of the dark, ghosts, heights, clowns, roller coasters, ET, or any other stereotypical thing that scares children. I thought that was, in my own, modern words, “some pussy shit”. I credit this bravery to the fact that at age 3 or 4 I was accidentally exposed to the Samara TV scene from the end of this movie. After seeing that nothing else…
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spooky
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Como que o cara fez um poço tão perfeito
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What if you watch the tape that kills you in 7 days on the beach that makes you old
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I was so scared I wouldnt get to see the girl crawl out of the tv
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why tf does this kid call his mom by her first name?
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Snoozefest
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classic
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My first step in my exposure therapy for horror
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i love samara, you go girl, tell your story
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Favorite horror movie
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Love the early 2000s greenish tint look to it. Still scary and it holds up incredibly well
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Filme lindo meu deus
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such vibey visuals, frames atmosphere. much less scary than i remembered, but everything was scarier when i was a kid
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Tinha que ser loira
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Still hate film bros, they’re pompous and I’ve always hated Wes Anderson and Christopher Nolan snobs for good reason… They’re runts who are simps/slaves 🫵🫵 Bad Will Hunting 🐖 Port A John 🐽 🐖 ❤️🔥 hating ngl but it did pay off for them, they got a dime piece but I seriously hope he doesn’t cheat on her again…bc I want none of it -1 star because they stole the flow from this tiktok
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🥹🥹🥹
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I swear these films felt scarier when we were younger.
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Don’t build a cabin over a well 🤷♂️
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Best movie about journalism since All the Presidents’ Men
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If Rachel got a “send this to 10 people or you’ll die” email, she would send it to 10 people.
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every frame in this just drips with that gorgeous mouth watering crispy green and cyan and allows you to soak in the amazing atmosphere in this, one of the best looking horror movies of all time, the cinematographer was on CRACK.
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some CRAZY absentee parenting going on here
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I love the nauseating feeling The Ring gives me every time I watch it, despite the trauma it caused me when I was seven
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my days are numbered 😍 This holds up so well with its scares, vfx, and aesthetic. Loved the greenish Twilight tint it has going on and the tape is still genuinely unnerving to watch. And i just remembered I have this film on VHS… Pray for meh
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Litli krakkin alveg eins og fullorðinn vá hvað hann var creepy Mog off á milli the parents Iconic mynd en unfortunately smá mid
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Mauvais remake
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🇮🇹 Italiano (English below) Voto: 6.5/10 Speravo che la versione americana puntasse a creare più tensione e più spavento, invece si limita a rimaneggiare l’atmosfera dell’originale giapponese più dilatata, ottenendo un risultato dignitoso ma senza mai giustificare davvero l’esistenza di un remake. La parte investigativa è la cosa che mi ha interessato di più e avrebbe potuto essere il vero motore del film, ma si trascina un po’ troppo, perde ritmo strada facendo. Per il resto, gran parte delle cose…
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Such an amazing movie. It has been 24 years and it still lingers as the movie that terrified a whole generation. I like how it seems like everything it’s going to be okay and then there is 17 minutes left, what else could they possibly show?, maybe that Samara isn’t just a murdered little girl, perhaps Samara indeed was the devil in disguise.
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cool movie but not scary like i thought it’d be maybe i’m too young
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kinda scary but its worth watching
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Plot lowk all over the place
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J’ai kiffé surtout le rebondissement à la fin
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good for its time
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First experience with The Ring was a Smosh parody.
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“Ringu should have been untouched by hollywood i guess”
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Rated way too harshly. No masterpiece, sure, but the entire movie carries such a 2000s charme. The visuals have had a lasting impact on me and while the characters are a bit shallow, this leaves room for the movie’s unique spin on the classic ring storyline. I enjoyed it a lot years ago and still do now 🙂
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jujur gangerti, ya paham si intinya nyari mayat si anak cwe itu melalui kaset kaset? tapi apa urusannya ama pembunuhan di awal dan si cowo. kaya nonton amanda the adventure.
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That happy part of their family reuniting was everything to me
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Miglior film horror in assoluto, dalla trama alle musiche e a questa fotografia che reputo perfetta, sarô monotono e ripetitivo ma è il film che consiglio a tutti
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Imagine how terrifying it would be if the entire marketing campaign of this film consisted of leaving a phone message to each viewer after they walked out of the screening.
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Gets told about a tape that kills you after 7 days Watches it. Gets upset when the grand plan to cancel out the curse(?) doesn’t actually work.
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şu saçını bi çek
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Cool cool very cool 😎
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She just needed to upload it to youtube.
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No really fuck them horses. 8/10
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The story of a woman running all over the coast for 7 days straight only for her son to give her the full tea in the last 5 minutes.
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like what if you just don’t pick up the phone ? do you still die in seven days regardless or is she just like ah shit i’ll try again with the next one
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Damn thought we were having a happy ending 😩 Kind giving me Videodrome plot vibe (but way better)
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really like the investigating parts
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also good but og better
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In every aspect this is a downgrade from the original.
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Pendant que des gens peuvent découvrir Lawrence d’Arabie je me retrouve à regarder le cercle de gore verbinski. Il raconte l’histoire d’une légende autour d’une vidéo où des qu’on la regarde on meurt 7 jours après. Mais voilà je sais pas trop quoi penser du film. Enfin déjà pour commencer le film est pas tres beau visuellement sur sa première partie, c’est un peu moins pire dans la deuxième parce que elle est sombre mais bon ça reste pas dingue.…
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A great set up (the opening scene is excellent), good cast and some creepy images. Sadly the film crawls in the middle hour and the ending feels like a cop out.
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Deja pourquoi vouloir regarder la cassette rachel ? un peu de bon sens
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Ottimo remake, poco da dire.
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took 100 minutes to realize i have seen it before
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Bastante infravalorada, aunque es cierto que habiendo visto el sketch de Scary Movie, la verdad que es complicado tomársela en serio. Aún así, muy buena, sin haber visto la versión original japonesa. Está muy bien dirigida, con muchísimas escenas replicadas en muchas otras películas del género posteriores, lo que indica que fue importante en su momento y marcó una época.
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She never sleeps.
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I wanted to eat some samosa man
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RIP Samosa.
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trauma de infância
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i love this movie. aidan’s delivery of “you helped her? why did you do that” is so funny. the green/blue tint, the mystery, the twist, noah and rachel’s relationship, everything about aidan. it’s so good it haunted me as a child and still haunts me today
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Fave scary movie. Nostalgia
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really loved the twilight tint
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Naomi watts looks so tea and I didn’t like the bit with the horse
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Gen Z and Gen Alpha will never understand how VHS works.
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the atmosphere is great, and that vhs tape still has more personality than half the characters. samara could have called me, i would have picked up and maybe that would have been more interesting
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Wel leuk alleen slecht einde waarbij geen antwoorden is gegeven op veel vragen
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Why didn’t they just read the letterboxd reviews first 😶
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Great mystery movie but somewhat boring horror movie
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essa mara devia ir dormir boy
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qorxulu deyil ama maraqlidi
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little girl may have been a worthless psycho but her movie direction on that tape was so fire
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Literally all jump scares were loud noises and changing scenes quickly
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Samara weaving her way out of the tv
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Disappointing. I was told this movie was really scary. Disturbing in some parts, maybe, but not really scary. I psyched myself out for scenes more than it was actually scary. The plot is messy and honestly made very little sense. It felt like they were going for too much and couldn’t figure out what kind of mystery they were going for. I thought it was a better mystery than horror.
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Jeden z moich nowych ulubionych horrorów! Zagadka ciekawa, mroczna i wciągająca. Zakończenie dołujące.
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kinda like the book minus the rape, transphobia, and std panic
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scary movie did it better
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Olayların mantığı güzeldi ama kötü işlenmişti yani iyi bir şekilde yapıla bilirken sıkıcı bir film çıkarmak inanılmaz bir başarı ha korkunc bile değil bari korkunc yapın yani 🙃
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Saw the Japanese original a few nights ago. Felt a primal compulsion to see this 2002 remake directed by Gore Verbinski. I’ll give credit where it’s due: The Ring is a pretty creepy and decent remake that cleverly subverts certain expectations/sequences and has the great fortune of starring a stellar Naomi Watts. However, this is also a cautionary tale of what happens when you take a fairly restrained Japanese film and try to recalibrate it for American sensibilities. While this…
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Typical Naomi Watts. Always the best.
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so so so so so good
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the dad is a dork also how did they butcher this it’s so much worse compared to the og japanese version omg 😭🥀☠️
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Goddamn, I love it when films use this color filter with the green tint and cold blue tones.
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kasetin kopyasını çıkartma mevzusu iyi düşünülmüş bir mitoloji değil. normal elindeki kaseti birine izletmekle kopyasını çıkartıp izletmek arasında anlamlı bir fark yok. baştaki çocuklar diğer türlü ölmeyecek diye böyle biraz zorlama bir mitoloji yazılmış gibi duruyor. smile’da bu daha iyiydi. travma yaratmak asıl odaktı ve birinin gözünün önünde birinin ölmesi ve travma yaşaması gerekiyordu. sondaki sahnede naomi watts’ın zincir mevzusunu çözmesi de mantıklı değildi, elindeki tek veri kendisinin ölmemesinden kaynaklı bir şeyi farklı yaptığı. bu kuyuya düşmek bile olabilir en…
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la fin?
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la peli que traumatizó a mi generación con 10-12 años, que nos hizo no olvidar jamás las teles de tubo y los teléfonos fijos. la bso siempre estará en mi cabeza She never sleeps. DEP Daveigh Chase 💔
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Really cool watch wish it ended a bit better, felt incomplete.
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just as good as the japanese ring but mainly in the sense of it being scarier?
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It seems to me like Sam and Dean should’ve been on the case
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An all time horror movie. But also a little investigative thriller as well. There’s a story that would add a lot of context to this rating, but that’s for me to know. Freaky shit happens whenever I watch this that’s all I’ll say. I cannot stand Aidan. Probably one of my least favorite characters in all of film. Just so fucking weird and becomes increasingly annoying as the film goes on. Cox cooking himself in the bathtub scarred me for a long time.
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The key to a good horror remake is to get a little Raimi with it (editors note: Grace has not seen the original “ring”) Editing in this movie is crazy good so many cool overlays and cuts and single frames and cross fades, good stuff all around. Beautiful shots of Naomi Watts and also amazing looking environments, there’s this one super far away shot of Naomi Watts on an apartment balcony while Martin Henderson watches the tape really love the…
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😭😭 me when i’m trapped in a well and haunt everyone for no fucking reason
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I’ve watched Scary Movie 3 way too many times to find this scary in any way, but the horse scene REALLY upset me.
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i really enjoyed the first three quarters of this but the last bit really lost me. it was definitely worth the watch though
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i still really hate the kid but unfortunately this & twilight with their fuckass blue filters are the only movies that truly capture the essence of living in washington state
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Que gran joya de terreo en su momento.
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Legit had to sleep with the lights on for about a week after watching this. My roommate and I took turns pranking each other by turning the TV to static in the middle of the night. Good times! Funny how the first J-Horror American remake really was the best one to do it. It also frustrates me that this thing spawned so many heartless cash-grab followers. I think the film makers were trying to communicate something interesting here and building on the original idea in an interesting way. Does it have its flaws? Sure. Is nostalgia a hell of a drug? You bet!
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modra
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This movie scared me when I was 16 and it scares me now at 36…
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liked it
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Konulu korku filmi dedin mi baba ayakta
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Watched this with the school and it was meh. I don’t like horror in general but this was not even scary
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wag na manood ng videotape
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recuerdo q se durmió al ver la película lol
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SSandra 9 月 1, 2016
is this the first time i saw this? maybe. it is a classic! 😀
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kucukken abim bana zorla bunu izlettirdi o günden beri uzun sacli beyaz elbiseli kizlardan korkuyorum
- Synopsis
- Journalist Rachel Keller investigates a strange videotape that may be behind the untimely deaths of four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring in order to save herself and her son.
- Director
- Gore Verbinski
- Writer
- Ehren Kruger, Hiroshi Takahashi
- Studio
- DreamWorks Pictures, BenderSpink, Parkes+MacDonald Production
- Country
- USA
- Language
- English
- Year
- 2002
- Runtime
- 115 mins
- USA02 Oct 2002
- Japan28 Oct 2002
- Sweden13 Dec 2002
- Argentina22 Jan 2003
- Czechia24 Jan 2003
- France01 Feb 2003
- Israel21 Feb 2003
- Lithuania03 Mar 2003
- Serbia04 Mar 2003
- USA18 Oct 2002
- Japan02 Nov 2002
- Hong Kong14 Nov 2002
- Poland15 Nov 2002
- Mexico06 Dec 2002
- Chile09 Jan 2003
- South Korea10 Jan 2003
- Philippines15 Jan 2003
- Argentina30 Jan 2003
- Brazil31 Jan 2003
- Belgium05 Feb 2003
- Denmark07 Feb 2003
- Germany13 Feb 2003
- Austria14 Feb 2003
- Netherlands20 Feb 2003
- UK21 Feb 2003
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