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NUMBERS
Box Office: $128,579,698
VHS Rentals: $20,670,000
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CONSENSUS
With little gore and a lot of creepy visuals, The Ring gets under your skin.
CAST & CREW
Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman
Directed by Gore Verbinski
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SYNOPSIS
In Gore Verbinski's remake of Hideo Nakata's chilling horror film, a group of teenagers all die suddenly and inexplicably exactly one week after watching a mysterious videotape at a remote cabin in the Pacific Northwest. more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, thematic elements, disturbing images, language, and some drug references
RUNTIME
1 hour, 55 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Oct 18, 2002
Video: Mar 4, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
DreamWorks Distribution LLC
GENRE
Horror/Suspense, Horror, Mystery, Supernatural, Remake, Videos
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official The Ring Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
TRAILER & MEDIA
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 "Be prepared to cling to the edge of your seat, tense with suspense. The Ring never lets you off the hook."
-- Staci Layne Wilson, FANTASTICA DAILY
 "Verbinski substitutes atmosphere for action, tedium for thrills."
-- Glenn Whipp, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"Imagine the James Woods character from Videodrome making a home movie of Audrey Rose and showing it to the kid from The Sixth Sense and you’ve imagined The Ring."
-- Jeffrey Westhoff, NORTHWEST HERALD (CRYSTAL LAKE, IL)
"Among the more creepy, spooky and tense films of 2002."
-- Brian Webster, APOLLO GUIDE
"An excellent date movie, because you and your date will likely be clinging on to each other within 10 minutes."
-- Phil Villarreal, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
"One of creepiest, scariest movies to come along in a long, long time, easily rivaling Blair Witch or The Others."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"Turning a great movie into a pretty good one is still a step in the wrong direction... and The Ring will never be more than a pretty good movie."
-- Rob Vaux, FLIPSIDE MOVIE EMPORIUM
"Anyone who gets chills from movies with giant plot holes will find plenty to shake and shiver about in 'The Ring.'"
-- Betty Jo Tucker, REELTALK MOVIE REVIEWS
"If your senses haven't been dulled by slasher films and gorefests, if you're a connoisseur of psychological horror, this is your ticket."
-- Lawrence Toppman, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
"One of the smarter offerings the horror genre has produced in recent memory, even if it's far tamer than advertised."
-- Dawn Taylor, PORTLAND TRIBUNE
"By the time the last reel has unraveled, so has the movie, whose endless puzzles keep accumulating until the ideas that once fueled
them have turned on themselves."
-- Christopher Smith, BANGOR DAILY NEWS (MAINE)
"The Ring is a surprisingly effective creeper."
-- Gerry Shamray, SUN NEWSPAPERS OF CLEVELAND
"Should be seen and absorbed, if only to recall that Hollywood horror does, occasionally, get it more or less right."
-- Marc Savlov, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
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""The Ring" is pretty much an English-language copy of the film that inspired it, and it carries the same strengths and flaws."
-- Ian Waldron-Mantgani, UK CRITIC
"Apesar de não superar o original, O Chamado é um suspense bem realizado que, à sua própria maneira, funciona de maneira exemplar."
-- Pablo Villaca, CINEMA EM CENA
"It kinda works and qualifies as cool at times, but is just too lame to work or be cool at others."
-- John Venable, SUPERCALA.COM
"It’s a ripper of a yarn and I for one enjoyed the thrill of the chill. Naomi Watts is terrific as Rachel; her petite frame and vulnerable persona emphasising her plight and isolation."
-- Urban Cinefile Critics, URBAN CINEFILE
"Take a date and hold on tight."
-- Tony Toscano, TALKING PICTURES
"Viewers of “The Ring” are more likely to remember the haunting images than the plot holes."
-- Rob Thomas, CAPITAL TIMES (MADISON, WI)
"Something has been lost in the translation...another routine Hollywood frightfest in which the slack execution italicizes the absurdity of the premise."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"Trades run-of-the-mill revulsion for extreme unease."
-- Jim Slotek, JAM! MOVIES
"The Ring just left me cold and wet like I was out in the Seattle drizzle without rainwear."
-- Dennis Schwartz, OZUS' WORLD MOVIE REVIEWS
"the phone rings and a voice tells you you've got seven days left to live. Then you get another phone call warning you that if the video isn't back at Blockbuster before midnight, you're going to face frightening late fees. O.K., not really."
-- James Sanford, KALAMAZOO GAZETTE
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ROTTEN 53%
Avg. Rating: 6.1/10 |
"Even if The Ring has a familiar ring, it's still unusually crafty and intelligent for Hollywood horror."
-- Chris Vognar, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"It's up to [Watts] to lend credibility to this strange scenario, and her presence succeeds in making us believe."
-- Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Creeps you out in high style, even if Nakata did it better."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"Verbinski implements every hack-artist trick to give us the ooky-spookies."
-- Jan Stuart, NEWSDAY
"I found The Ring moderately absorbing, largely for its elegantly colorful look and sound."
-- Andrew Sarris, NEW YORK OBSERVER
"It's far better than most gimmicky horror films."
-- Steven Rosen, DENVER POST
"It's the kind of effectively creepy-scary thriller that has you fixating on a far corner of the screen at times because your nerves just can’t take it any more."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"More likely to have you scratching your head than hiding under your seat."
-- Carrie Rickey, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
"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."
-- Claudia Puig, USA TODAY
"With its hints of a greater intelligence lurking somewhere, The Ring makes its stupidity more than obvious. It's painful."
-- Geoff Pevere, TORONTO STAR
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"The Ring is worth a look, if you don't demand much more than a few cheap thrills from your Halloween entertainment."
-- Alex Sandell, JUICY CEREBELLUM
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* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "The Ring" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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