Amber Tamblyn, Brian Cox, Chris Cooper
It sounded like just another urban legend--videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. As a newspaper reporter, Rachel Kelle...( read more
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DVD Release Date: March 4, 2003
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April 25, 2009"Before you die, you see the ring"
A young journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone in a week of viewing it.
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October 7, 2008Creepy, scary and unnerving. After seeing it, I made others see it too... just in case.
It is PG rated so no gore or sex or any kind of graphic violence is shown. It is all in your imagination... which may be worse (or better, depending on your tastes). -
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October 24, 2002
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
October 18, 2002
Claudia Puig, USA Today
At times, the suspense is palpable, but by the end there's a sense that the crux of the mystery hinges on a technicality that strains credulity and leaves the viewer haunted by the waste of potential. full review
October 18, 2002
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rarely has a more serious effort produced a less serious result. full review
October 18, 2002
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
At best, it's a workmanlike, passably engrossing horror flick that copies well from the Japanese original. full review
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November 30, 2009Visually speaking it has many fascinating scene with a dense dark atmosphere but the story is too much complicated to follow.
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December 3, 2008its really a superb scary movie.... i didnt sleep 4 1 week peacely after watch dis movie....
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August 4, 2008LOVE LOVE LOVE this movie....its great!!!thinks its better than the japanese version...far scarier
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April 19, 2008Why is it that Gore Verbinski can take ideas that sound stale or like crap on paper (let's remake a Japanese horror film! Let's make a movie based on a theme park ride!) and crank out instant classics with them? What does that guy ingest that gives him that kind of talent???
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November 1, 2007Uhm, to me it's not a unbearably scary film. but 2 days after watching it, I was always imagining a head with long hair would shoot out from my PC. Anyway, I think the Japanese one is better than the USA's.
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October 5, 2007I saw scary movie 3 first, so I was completely unable to take this film seriously. I kept wondering what would happen if you put your only T.V. on a high shelf and she crawled out of it? Or if the only T.V. you had was a tiny portable, would she come out a midget? Personally I would just sit, seven days after watching the video, in a small room, facing the only door with the T.V. in front of me and a shotgun pointed at it. :P
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