Film Review
The Ring:
'Not Your Typical Slasher Flick'
By Kate O'Hara and Michael Miller
(November 6, 2002)
Lasso Online Rating:
Amber Tamblyn and Rachael Bella star in The
Ring, 'the most intense thriller known to man.' |
The Ring. The scariest movie in
existence. This isn’t your typical slasher, let’s-kill-all-the-virgins,
we’ve-got-to-follow-"the rules" scary movie. It starts out with an innocent
teenage girl, home alone with a friend. They start talking about a videotape
that kills you seven days after you watch it, and it turns out that one
of the girls has already watched it. The aunt of the unfortunate victim,
played by a very convincing Naomi Watts, starts to investigate the coincidental
deaths of the three other teenagers that were with her niece at the time
that she watched the video.
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| Rachel Keller (Watts) jumps through
hoops and begins to uncover unearthly connections between the images on
the video and the pasts of local Seattle ghosts. In a dash to save her
son, who has accidentally seen the tape, Rachel races against her seven
day clock with an ex-boyfriend to try and discover the origin of the cursed
video. Rachel is led to a defunct horse farm on a small island, where she
learns the truth about a little girl who caused sorrow to all who knew
her.
A constant air of suspense, filled
with flashes of extreme terror, keeps you riveted to your seat. This, combined
with a number of frightening twists and turns in the plot, makes this the
most intense thriller known to man.
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The Ring is rated PG-13,
and is now showing in local
theaters. |
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