Movie

The Ring

2002 · 115 min

A slow, creeping dread settles in as you watch, with eerie imagery and a mounting sense of inevitable doom.

Tagline: Before you die, you see.
Overview: Journalist Rachel Keller investigates a strange videotape that may be behind the untimely deaths of four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring in order to save herself and her son.
How it feels: Eerie, dark, tense and bleak. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Death, mystery, isolation, fate
Content: Strong violence. Mild gore and language. No sexual content.
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Tone: eeriestrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
bleakstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: death
mystery
isolation
fate
corruption
Places: big city
small town
single country house
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: twist ending
nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex none