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  Review by BRÁT ★★★★

  the story of a woman who only has 7 days to analyze the meaning of an avant-garde experimental art film. just take a cinema studies class, girl!

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  Review by jack ✿ 4

  i love this pretentious demon doing The Absolute Most with her experimental art film...go off ms. samara..a true auteur

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  Review by maria ★★★

  all i'm saying is if this bitch wanna storm out of my fucking samsung smart tv and ruin it, she gotta buy me a new one

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  Review by nathaxnne [hiatus] ★★★★ 22

  A Very Incomplete List Of Some Of The Other Movies The Kids Staying In Cabin 12 Of The Shelter Mountain Inn Could Have Selected To Watch From The Available Video Library Instead Of An Unlabeled Home Movie Thereby Preventing The Events Of The Movie The Ring (2002) Directed By Gore Verbinski:

  YOR
  School Ties
  [Illegible]
  The Man From Snowy River
  Steel Magnolias
  Wilderness Family
  Sodom And Gomorrah
  America Over There (Episode Title Illegible)
  The Looking Glass War
  Open Water Experience
  Garden Pond Basics
  National Geographic Video (Subtitle Illegible - Picture Of A Hyena?)
  Sherlock Holmes Revisited
  Visions Of A New World
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  Shattered
  Spontaneous Combustion (Clearly this would have been my pick - ed.)
  Family Plot (My #2 Pick - ed.)
  Scent Of A Woman

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  Review by Logan Kenny ★★★★ 7

  why is so much of this movie about goddamn horses

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  Review by David Sims ★★★★ 9

  a movie made to frighten a generation that left their kids in front of the tv to entertain them

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  Review by ian curtis ★★★ 2

  no one:

  
  anna morgan: i'm gonna take my horse to the old town road, i'm gonna ride 'til i can't no more

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★½ 5

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  Conventionally unsettling when necessary (the "I saw her face." scare is still surprising, and it chills the blood), but the main tension is found in the attachment to what we watch, and how the screens of entertainment and information soon become the primary viewing devices of our lives. The Ring is precedent in that it's essentially about individuals influenced by the images and messages they consume, thus revealing the analog stimuli they're being fed and causing a final stand against the imposing force of unadulterated free thought. That the 'cursed video' is an avant-garde film only solidifies the battle against the corporatization of media and its path of rebellion against safety over free will. Verbinski, in a key moment,…

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  Review by 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐚𝐧𝐚 ★★★★ 5

  My chances of survival are 50 percent, I never answer the phone, but I watch a lot of television.

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  Review by Andrew | A.J. ★★★ 1

  So this is where all the "Share if u don't want 2 die 2nite" Facebook posts come from.

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  Review by Esther Rosenfield ★★★★★ 4

  Few scarier things can appear on a tv screen than static. Blaring and bright, shifty and formless, demanding your attention and offering nothing in return. It is the absence of meaning, imagery void of psychology or intent. It's hypnotic in its abstract banality. Every frame suggests a hidden depth, a signal in the noise, a truth you'll never find. It's a bottomless pit, waiting to swallow you up. It's a deep dark well.

  No movie understands this like The Ring, and no movie scares me like The Ring. Unlike the cavalcade of "prestige" horror we've been inundated with these past few years, this is a film that refuses to drown its images in "meaning." Many of the images on the…

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  Review by kim ★★★½

  that scene where rachel gets bodyslammed by a 2002 tv and fucking catapulted into the well is so fucking funny i'm sorry but it gets me every time