It sounded like just another urban legend--a videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. As a newspaper reporter, Rachel Keller was naturally skeptical of the story, until four teenagers all met with mysterious deaths exactly one week after watching just such a tape. Allowing her investigative curiosity to get the better of... See Full Description
Genres:
Suspense/Horror, Thriller and Adaptation
Running Time:
1 hr. 49 min.
Release Date:
October 18th, 2002
MPAA Rating:
PG-13 for thematic elements, disturbing images, language and some drug references.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
"The boo! factor is waaaay up there -- a nine on a scale of 10. But the makes-sense factor is something like a three, at best." more...
C+
Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert
"Rarely has a more serious effort produced a less serious result..." more...
C
Chicago Tribune, Robert K. Elder
"The Ring ends up a few frames short of the perfect horror film, but very few." more...
B
Cincinnati Enquirer, Margaret A. McGurk
"...makes a skin-crawling candidate for one of the scariest movies to hit the screen this year." more...