
REVIEW — Ringu (1998)
Based on the 1991 novel of the same name, Ringu is the story of one of the most infamous Japanese tall tales: a video tape that kills you when you watch it.
Based on the 1991 novel of the same name, Ringu is the story of one of the most infamous Japanese tall tales: a video tape that kills you when you watch it.
I was expecting some mildly spooky content, and I got that, but there were surprisingly some points that definitely made me reconsider watching it in my dark basement… alone… at night.
Since the early 1990s, Sadako Yamamura (known as Samara Morgan in the US) has put the fear of technology into audiences worldwide.
Japanese horror manages to consistently capture the realism of fear and how powerful it actually is.