Why The Ring is One of the Best Movies Ever

If you haven't seen The Ring, you need to watch it ASAP. I love horror movies, and I can 100% guarantee you that it will scare you out of your wits. I don't really enjoy the "horror" movies with the blood and guts, and so I guess that is why I love this so much. It's really a psychological thriller with some horror elements thrown in. Every corner comes complete with its own twists and turns. I've seen many a scary movie, and I've never been too scared, never had to sleep with the lights on or stay at a friend's house, but with this movie, I didn't sleep the entire night, and I was nervously laying there, waiting for something to happen to me. I stared at my television, imagining what had happened in the movie happening to me.

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If you know me, you know that The Ring is one of my favorite movies. I have never seen a movie as disturbing and sick as this. The true genious comes from the after effects of the movie. First, there is the haunting video tape. The scariest and most terrifying thing about this is that you have to wait for your demise. You've seen the video tape and now have one week in which you wait in anxiety, forced to go through a series of terrible physical ailments and errors. Can you imagine having to wait for your death, just to know its coming and be constantly reminded that in a few days, you will be killed? You may nearly drive yourself insane thinking about it. But of course, the creepiest aspect of this movie is that once it's over... you've now seen the tape. You also know that Samara is still alive, and she has just captured you, and subconsiously you're in the palm of her hand.

Summary:
A journalist, Rachel (Naomi Watts), visits her niece's funeral. She discovers pictures of her niece and her friends taken one week before her death, but the faces on the photos are distorted. Rachel investigates further, finding a video tape with mysterious images and video clips. She digs deeper. Once someone watches the tape, the phone rings and a girl mutters, "seven days." Then creepy things begin happening to that person and after seven days have passed, the girl kills them. The girl is Samara, and she lived on a horse farm, where her mother committed suicide many years before. When Rachel is visiting, Samara's father commits suicide and Rachel finds an old shed where Samara lived. Rachel doesn't realize, however, that her son is more connected with Samara than she is; we discover near the beginning of the film that Aidan had been drawing demented pictures of Samara and death. Aidan connects with Samara. Rachel soon seeks the help of Aidan's father, Noah (Martin Henderson). He watches the tape and they try to solve the mystery together. Then, one night Rachel wakes up to find that her son had watched the tape. In a race against time, the trio works together and finds a well underneath the old cabin where her niece had stayed the night she watched the video tape. As the last week of Rachel's life draws to a close, she makes a copy of the tape and the presumed day of her death passes without any harm coming to her. She then realizes that this is the key to escaping Samara's wrath. Unfortunately for Noah, she is too late when trying to caution him. In the end, Rachel has already entered the dreaded well where Samara lay. Aidan informs her that she has completely released the evil that is Samara into the world.