Film

The Ring 2002

Directed by Gore Verbinski

  • Horror, Mystery
  • 115 min
  • PG-13

Before you die, you see

Journalist Rachel Keller investigates a strange videotape that may be behind the untimely deaths of 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 in order to save herself and her son.

HorrorMysteryjournalistislanddrowninginvestigationsupernaturalhorsetelephoneparanormalremakeurban legendcursefemale protagonist

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Earnest, grave, classical in form and contemporary.

  • earnestironic
  • gravecomic
  • classical in formformally daring
  • contemporarynostalgic
  • warmbleak

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