I just saw “The Ring“. A movie that is widely talked about here in Japan. It’s a horror movie that came out in 1998 and put some interest back in horror movies.
If you can find a copy it’s a MUST WATCH MOVIE. (I’m sure you can at a Japanese video store but then of course you’ll need to understand Japanese)
It does require some setup though. Watch it at night. Watch it with the lights out. Watch it alone of you can. Watch it at a descent volume level.
It’s not particularly fancy. It doesn’t have any effects or gore. In fact my Japanese friends thought it wouldn’t do it for an American but it did for me and it did for lots of other fans on Amazon.co.uk and IMDB.com Note: Don’t read those reviews as they over hype it and give away lots of the story. It mostly works because of tension and a good creepy soundtrack. It’s not perfect but it’s at least not your average American horror gorefest, slasher, movie.
Ring review from the Filthy Critic
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http://www.japannewbie.com
my friend lisa saw it she said it was really scary. And she still thinks about it.
well, though i haven’t watch yet this movie, it intrigues me a lot. my brother saw it and adviced me not to see this movie alone..it is indeed very, very scary. he even had his nightmares right after he saw it. it has somehow a psychological effect as well as not recommended to those who have heart ailments like i do. yet, it drives me to the my excitement of watching this,. i even saw a trailer of it from MTV’s video of the greyhound and geeesh, it scared my guts off, esp the woman who went out of the well and walk through out ofbthe tv.. waaaaahhhh!! try this out, for those who thinks they are brave enough, watch this movie!! Excellent idea, very well executed, brilliantly subtle horror!!! TWO THUMBS UP FOR THE JAPANESE ORIGINAL VERSION OF THE MOVIE “THE RING”!
actually, i haven’t watched the movie yet but i already heard the story from my friend. according to him, it was really horrifying. he even had nightmares about the movie. that is why i am really dying to watch it!
watched the American ring and the Japanese version. I give the Japanese version kudos for setting up the basis for the American Ring. I loved that version better, the effects, horror and plot were great. American films always put a electric twist on foreign films!
The original Nikita is much better than the American remake Point of No Return. I’m sure some others can name a bunch of others.
Out of 100 people who both watched The Ring and Ringu, 72% prefered Ringu as the better one, so, what else can The Ring do? It was only the copy of the original japanese version, eh! so people, now you know, Japanese version is better than what you like…hehe!
Hurray Japanese movies! Ringu just got the title to be the most terrifying and scariest movie of the year. The Ring is fine, but they didn’t make it cause it was only a copy/ adoptation of RINGU.
I love you Sadako…
The EYE was Ok, but comparing it to other japanese horror flicks, it’s like watching Carebears Adventures instead of Battlestar Gallatica.
was anyone else frightened to death, not by the movie, but by how many cruddy rip-offs were made of The Ring/Ringu? but that’s not what bothers me the most, it’s that since everyone was so agape over The Ring/Ringu no one noticed the equally scary or scarier japanese film, Juon. Has anyone else seen it? It’s so freaky. Especially that one part when that woman Kaiyoko is so obessed with her son’s teacher, she stalks him. I won’t give out anything else about that part ’cause I don’t want to ruin it for ya.
Oh, has anyone heard that Wes Craven will do a remake of the Kiyoshi Kurosawa movie, Kairo? I wonder if that will be any good.