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DAY 28.2: The Ring
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Man, I love The Ring. This movie might be what really got me obsessed with horror movies.

The Ring is about a cursed VHS tape where the viewer dies in 7 days. But can Naomi Watts solve the mystery and stop the curse!?

I don't have a lot of negative things to say about this movie. The Ring does so much good, but Naomi Watts deserves a ton of praise for going all in on a movie and a premise that, on its face, is just laughable.

But The Ring takes this ridiculous concept and fills you with dread, from the start, by giving you a horror cliche of stupid kids doing stupid things (omg as a high schooler THAT WAS JUST LIKE ME) and then, you know, they die. And then it brings you in with the mystery and keeps stringing you along. An outright bizarre film on that VHS tape with hidden meanings. Strange occurrences. Stranger gross stuff. What in the hell can it all mean?

All, of course, with the impending doom. You know when it's coming. It's just a count down until the final moments as they unravel the twisted puzzle.

I feel like I don't need to dance around spoilers, but I guess I ought to. But the conclusion to this film is legendary. The build up is insane. It delivers on so many levels.

It's just an awesome mystery that is done to perfection. It really is a special movie. I don't know that it can be matched.

The Ring Two is the shits though. Just terrible, and I don't know how that got made. Rings was alright, but it wasn't anything as special as the first American film.

But The Ring? Man, watch that one forever. The biggest recommends if you've somehow never seen it.

Rating: 9.5/10

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