The Ring

Name: The Ring
Director: Gore Verbinski
Released: 2002

Gore Verbinski

2002

4.50

Synopsis

Rachel Keller is a journalist investigating a videotape that may have killed 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 so she can save herself and her son.

Your Movie Library

Cast

Naomi WattsRachel Keller
Martin HendersonNoah Clay
David DorfmanAidan Keller
Brian CoxRichard Morgan
Jane AlexanderDr. Grasnik
Lindsay FrostRuth Embry
Amber TamblynKatie Embry
Rachael BellaRebecca Kotler
Daveigh ChaseSamara Morgan
Shannon CochranAnna Morgan

Recommendations

70
TV Guide Magazine
A frighteningly good horror movie with enough solid scares to freeze the blood of ardent fans and newcomers alike.
70
Newsweek
This visually stunning movie serves up generous dollops of designer creepiness.
63
USA Today
Too many threads are left dangling and the movie ultimately proves too implausible to put alongside those horror classics.
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
It's a workmanlike, passably engrossing horror flick that copies well from the Japanese original. When it's good, it's not original, and when it's original, it's not so good.
60
Slate
The movie is meant to get into you like a virus, and it does.
50
Los Angeles Times
Certainly acceptable. But no one seeing it is going to feel as spooked as executive producer Roy Lee. To make an audience feel that intensely, you need a different kind of director and a different kind of film.
50
Variety
Comes across in muted fashion, with uninvolving characters and lack of genuine excitement or fright creating a second-rate, second-hand feel.
50
Boston Globe
The unworthy new Hollywood remake of Japan's horror phenomenon, ''Ring,'' has packed on a definite article and a whole lot of hooey.

The Ring

Synopsis

Your Movie Library

Cast

Recommendations

Loved by

Seen by

Lists