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[datadabbler]

i found this quite scary, what do you think,?

[littleriot]

I remember it being really creepy - it has stayed one of my favorites. I hear they are making it in 3D- couldn't cope with Samara coming out of the screen! I'm sure it will be brilliant.

[Mike G]

datadabbler, on 29 October 2011 - 11:57 AM, said:

i found this quite scary, what do you think,?

The horse jumping off of the ferry barge was worth the ticket alone. Biggest laugh I had that whole year.

[datadabbler]

i just found it a bit creepy, i remember the excorcist had the same effect,

[Lady_Mercury]

Unfortunately I saw the Hollywood version first and then the Japanese Ringu second.  The Hollywood version sucks, but Samara crawling out the well freaked me out a bit the first time I saw it.  But no one rolls their eyes up into their heads like they do in the Ringu.  It was sorely missed  

[Alaskanangel]

I thought it was a pretty good movie.  I personally like the Japanese versions better.

[KERIK182]

datadabbler, on 29 October 2011 - 11:57 AM, said:

i found this quite scary, what do you think,?

In the Ring, in the movie where the thumb gets its nail riped off by the tack or nail. That was the worst part. and what a F'd up movie.

[The Living Ghost Story]

The original did give me the shivers. Sadako coming out of the television, with eyes rolled with zombie-like movements were a much scarier climax.

The remake was lame. America needs to stop remaking Asian cinema. And Asian cinema needs to stop remaking Ringu.

[MysticStrummer]

I didn't think the american version was scary at all. Never saw the original.

[schizoidwoman]

I haven't seen the remake but I love the original; I really prefer Ring 0: Birthday though, with its creepy finale!

[Sister Spooky]

I am officially a Ringworm. I have disected, analized, and discussed this movie with people online and in real life ad nausem. I own the book trilogy by Koji Suzuki, I have seen the American verion too many times, even frame by fream at a few different points to find easter eggs, I have seen Ringu just as much, I have read each of the books many times over. I was horribly obsessed with this movie and concept for a while. Even commissioned a custom piece of Ring related art with the intentions of eventually getting a tattoo version of it.

I guess this movie caught my attention so strongly, due to the fact that it was the first movie that ever scared me....and trust me I am a horror NUT it's almost impossible to shake me to the very core like these movies did. I still have Samara/Sadako nightmares.

There are a bunch of easter eggs hidden in the movies, you just have to go frame by frame at certain parts. I know so much about these movies and books that it's quite sad. LoL. The Ring/Ringu is at the top of my scariest movies ever list, and in 9 years nothing has topped it....though I am hoping something will.

I would just like to mention the fact that it came out right at a pivital time. DVDs were still relatively new and VHS was still very popular so the idea of finding a cursed tape worked very well in the realism department. Had the movie come out even a year later, it might not have been as effective.