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Did "The Ring" scare you as a kid/adult?
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black_clavus
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I watched the original (Japanese)
and yes, I had something like shortterm traumatic
and yes, I had something like shortterm traumatic
WhiskerFrisker
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Fuck this movie man. I watched this when I was 8 years old and it messed me up for a long time. I basically was afraid to sleep for for a couple years. I have a phobia of girls whose hair cover their face.
Strangelove77
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Is that the one with the little Asian kid that plays whiteface snd makes meowing sounds?
That shit was too funny to be scary.
That shit was too funny to be scary.
mechashiva
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It was unsettling to me. It wasn't about the jump scares but more the absolute aura of evil they created. I thought it was tremendous. The fact that it was PG-13 and able to disturb the way it did was an accomplishment.
I remember watching with my friends who were staying at my place after. We all stayed up playing n64 rather than go to sleep and face the dreams.
I remember watching with my friends who were staying at my place after. We all stayed up playing n64 rather than go to sleep and face the dreams.
I slept in my younger brothers room for the next 6 months. I'm pretty sure we ended up moving to a different house like a 5 minute drive away. because I couldn't sleep in my own room. It was in the basement right next to the water heater, and the door to the water heater wouldn't stay shut abs would creak open and closed randomly.
I have seen 0 horror movies since the ring. And I doubt I could watch it ever again.
Edit: I think I was 12 or so. I'm 23 now, 24 in two months
I have seen 0 horror movies since the ring. And I doubt I could watch it ever again.
Edit: I think I was 12 or so. I'm 23 now, 24 in two months
Druz
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The movie filled me with absolute dread. It was like torture to watch. Among things already listed(like the contents of the video) -- the soundtrack does me in too. Not the music... but the super super quiet noise and then this quiet but high pitched two tone. It happens when things are going bad.
Ahh its 4AM here and I'm afraid again. I'm a grown ass man too.
Ahh its 4AM here and I'm afraid again. I'm a grown ass man too.
Chuckie
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well this did make 13 year old me jump
Wow, that is different from the Japanese version:
Drilbit777
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I will say Ringu freaked me out as a kid (we rented the japanese version from blockbuster and watched it subbed) though the american one not so much. Aside from a few jumpscares it was pretty predictable.
Wow, that is different from the Japanese version:
Yeah, in Ringu they just look like they died of fright. Much better imo. Horror isn't all about gross corpse-y special effects.
Scared me then, scares me now. Terrifying.
I think it really depends on which one you see first: The Ring or Ringu. I saw the U.S. version first so the Japanese flick didn't seem so special to me. The Ring is a solid horror film with a subtle intensity in every scene. I would certainly recommend it. I'm curious to see how the new film turns out. It's gonna be hard to duplicate the pop culture phenom of the first flick.
You bet it fucking did. Here is what happened to me when I watched it the first time.
I was alone in my room and I think it was like 6PM, like 5 seconds after the part in which the "killer tape" is viewed, my fucking phone rings. I answer it and I get a beeping sound from it. You have no idea how fucking scared I was that night. The next day I googled the number and noticed it was from a companys fax machine, hence the beeping sounds.
I was scarred for life for that. I was maybe 14-15 at the time.
I was alone in my room and I think it was like 6PM, like 5 seconds after the part in which the "killer tape" is viewed, my fucking phone rings. I answer it and I get a beeping sound from it. You have no idea how fucking scared I was that night. The next day I googled the number and noticed it was from a companys fax machine, hence the beeping sounds.
I was scarred for life for that. I was maybe 14-15 at the time.
zorlaczerohero
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My wife and I were 30ish when it came out, scared us both shitless, first time since Nightmare on Elm Street when I was 13 or something I've been too scared to go for a piss alone. Me and the wife in the bathroom together and not saying a word, just accepting that it was going to be like that.
When this came out in the cinema I got two room mates to watch it, they wanted to watch some other drek but my cheering for it won out.
The whole cinema jumped at that closet scene, it was so fast, yet you saw enough it scared the hell out of you. There was this constant feeling of dread as the movie kept playing, people got freaked out over various scenes and when she came out of the TV at the end, that was intense.
The whole cinema jumped at that closet scene, it was so fast, yet you saw enough it scared the hell out of you. There was this constant feeling of dread as the movie kept playing, people got freaked out over various scenes and when she came out of the TV at the end, that was intense.
I took my gf and her friend on a double date with my friend. We decided to go to a "Japanese film night" where from 10pm on they did a back-to-back showing of Ringu and Ringu 2. I didn't read anything up front, just assumed from the name that maybe it's some fantasy anime. Imagine our surprise.
I had a headache from my hair standing on end for the better part of four hours. My friend chewed the front of his turtleneck. My gf spend a lot of time looking away (doesn't really help because of the sounds) and her friend was screaming aloud. We were the only four in the theatre.
I was 20 at the time. Still have nightmares where a TV turns on and shows static. I'm now 35.
I had a headache from my hair standing on end for the better part of four hours. My friend chewed the front of his turtleneck. My gf spend a lot of time looking away (doesn't really help because of the sounds) and her friend was screaming aloud. We were the only four in the theatre.
I was 20 at the time. Still have nightmares where a TV turns on and shows static. I'm now 35.
I think it depends on which film you watched first. I felt Ringu was hilariously campy having watched it a few years after being scared to death by The Ring.
malingenie
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It unsettled me to no end (Westernized version), but it did nothing to the rest of my family. It was weird.
disappeared
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I'll always associate The Ring with first and last time I kissed the girl I'd really liked throughout all four years of high school. Final year, and a group of us watched it in a friend's basement one night in March of '03. Then she moved away to art school and I moved to Japan.
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It didn't scare me, and I actually think this film and The Grudge have had a detrimental effect on a lot of horror films since. A lot of horrors after these films have used the same techniques, whether it be the creature is similar or they are trying to ape the mood of these films (I can't put it into words exactly) but I haven't enjoyed many horror films since. In fact one of the only ones that has unsettled me in recent years was Antichrist, and that was an art house take on the genre.
I did enjoy It Follows, even if it did fall apart at the end.
I did enjoy It Follows, even if it did fall apart at the end.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
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Not one bit. It did scare some of the people I was with though.
Lights and Waves
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I like how people are still too "cool" to admit that remakes can be better than the originals.
As for The Ring Two, I though the climax of the film where
was so freaking suspenseful and great to watch.
In regards to the distorted bodies and faces, I think they're supposed to look as though they've died of fear AND as though their body had drowned and had been underwater for quite some time.
As for The Ring Two, I though the climax of the film where
Naomi gets teleported into the well and had to climb out before Samara can drag her back down
In regards to the distorted bodies and faces, I think they're supposed to look as though they've died of fear AND as though their body had drowned and had been underwater for quite some time.
TimorousPanda
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I was scared. I watched it on cable TV, though, so the commercial breaks helped to calm me down.
Messofanego
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Same and I believe the US Ring is better than Ringu (especially the acting) except for the mother in the mirror and the actual television moment, which is done more subtle in the Japanese version.
The Ring is clearly a Hollywood film set in Hollywood land, where people have huge apartments. Where a creepy video looks like its made by students, and is a blatant series of clues. Where a ghost has video glitches cause it looks cool.
Ringu was so matter of fact it was almost like a documentary, it doesn't try and make you jump, it just creates a lingering feeling of dread, that this shit aint right. The way the thing comes out of the TV at the end in the small apartment like anyone else's, in the over cast harshness of day, it was like fucking hell why did I watch this shit.
Ringu was so matter of fact it was almost like a documentary, it doesn't try and make you jump, it just creates a lingering feeling of dread, that this shit aint right. The way the thing comes out of the TV at the end in the small apartment like anyone else's, in the over cast harshness of day, it was like fucking hell why did I watch this shit.
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