I saw "the Ring" before. I still remember this was THE FILM when it came to horror when I was a kid. I'll never forget when a friend told me "I saw the Ring on the weekend, I couldn't sleep the night I saw it."
Of course I HAD to watch it. And I did. With a big group of friends. After having seen Scary Movie 3 (the parody of the Ring) at least 4 times.
So all in all, it didn't have the effect I wished it had.
So i shelved it and haven't watched it for many years. Now I'm grown up. I haven't seen Scary Movie in forever. I watched it alone. And this time it worked. I really enjoyed it and was genuinely scared at some points.
But after talking about my story with this I'll talk about the movie now.
Rachel (Naomie Watts) finds a videotape that looks like a weird student art film, and after she watches it her phone rings and a voice says she has 7 days to live. Now she tries to find out how to survive.
The movie feels like a crime movie, Rachel tries to find out who made this video and we follow her research. But what she finds out is really scary.
The acting was quite good. The characters were characters you cared about.
What I think is the most important part: it managed to build a creepy atmosphere without depending on jump scares. Of course there are some jumps in there, but mostly it's really the atmosphere.
By the way, the "Video" is really scary and I know it's on the DVD extras but I'm not sure if I wanna watch it.
I give it 4 out of 5 stars.
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