The Ring 2002

Hello readers,

Welcome me back with the arch enemy of the movie I discussed in my last blog. Today I will present The Ring. There has been a lot of excitement about the upcoming Japanese movie The Ring vs. The Grudge. Both movies were originally made in Japan and then were adopted by Hollywood counterparts. Being a true horror movie fan, I love both The Grudge and The Ring equally and could never think of choosing one over the other. I am unable to speculate which one out of Samara or Kayako is more evil and deadly. Guess I will just have to watch the The Grudge vs. The Ring to find out. I will probably be sitting in the first show of that movie.

Putting aside the rivalry, I will give you the basic gist of the movie. The starting of the movie is awesome. Two girls having a sleepover start talking about a video one of them watched. The girl said that she then got a phone call where a voice told her that she had 7 days to live. The careless girls then get the shock of their life when the girl who watched the video dies after looking at a ring on the TV screen. The introduction of the two main protagonists, Rachel, a single mother and her strangely quite son Aidan follows. The girl who died happened to be the cousin of Aidan. Rachel, a journalist, starts investigating the case of the killer videotape after which she unravels a series of mysteries and the life of dead girl called Samara. She discovers the shocking truth of what happen to the girl Samara, whose curse lived within the videotape killing everyone who watched it after 7 days. In the end, just when Rachel thinks that she had done the right thing about Samara, she finds put that she has made a large mistake, large enough to put the life of her son and boyfriend into risk.

Horror movies fans must have already watched this movie. I am sure that mystery and thriller fans will also enjoy this watch. Though I have probably watched this movie a hundred times, it fails to bore me a single minute. This movie may not provide any hard core horror scene, but the overall story, the horrid video, the well, the girl Samara and her past will surely give you the creeps for 7 days.

See you at a next review.