Horror movies are a popular film genre because they throw their protagonists into extreme situations and play with our own fears. In Ringu, death comes from watching a videotape, and it is quite punctual.
- Released: 1998
- Director: Hideo Nakata
- Sub-Genre: Psychological Horror
In the West, the remake The Ring is probably better known, but the Japanese original far surpasses the remake in terms of creepiness. The direction is significantly less spectacular and less “Hollywood”; that’s precisely what makes it so good. The film knows how to create unsettling images and effective cuts to keep the tension high.
The story is about a videotape that is watched by various people. Seven days later, they are dead. A reporter receives such a tape because she is investigating the case of four girls who mysteriously died.
Particularly well-known is the girl Sadako (in the US remake Samara), who crawls out of a well in the video and then emerges from the television to kill the person in front of it. Ringu tells a classic curse story, but few films have done it so effectively and frighteningly.
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