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The horror does not get any more beautiful

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Victor Khomenko

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The 1998 Japanese film Ring is simply wonderful... it is wonderful all around... if you walked in the room in the middle of it and just caught a second you would likely want to sit down and continue watching. It is made to the Japanese perfection and it grabs you.

Considered a great representative of the best J-Horror style movies it delivers... in its quiet but deliberate way, all until its totally unpredictable ending.

And I am not ashamed to add I felt some chills down my spine here and there.

If you would like to see and experience that marvel - hurry up, as it will be gone from the Criterion at the end of this month.

Follow Ups:

It was really well done and I enjoyed it thanks! nt - PhilJ 10:40:56 06/27/25 (0)
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Hope you didn't watch the American version - Jon L 19:24:28 06/25/25 (5)
How two versions of the same movie could be SO different! Same for Japanese and American version of "The Grudge."

Edits: 06/25/25
- Ethnocentrism in action . . . - Billy Wonka 13:35:43 06/28/25 (0)
  That's why foreign movies are so different. Somebody with an entirely different brain conceived and executed the design.
  
  Being a red-blooded American, I often find some foreign horror films boring. Why? I am from an impatient culture that expects things to happen the moment I lay my doubloons down. I often fail to overlay cultural-relativism while watching something like 'The Ring' (or others) in order to adjust to the pace or prevailing story.
  
  I am a huge fan of Asian horror and subtitles which puts me in a tiny demographic. I much prefer foreign horror from Japan or South Korea.
- Per his post, he watched the 1998 Japanese film - agattu 13:19:04 06/26/25 (0)
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- I just know it exists - Victor Khomenko 07:10:24 06/26/25 (2)
  I normally would just ignore it, but now you sparked some perverted curiosity in me. :) Is it THAT horrible?
  - No, not really - Jack G 03:53:50 06/27/25 (0)
    It isn't as good as the original, but it's really not that bad. It just doesn't quite capture the atmosphere of the original, but it's definitely the best of the American remakes. Naomi Watts helps.
    Jack
  - RE: I just know it exists - Jon L 01:30:26 06/27/25 (0)
    The American version managed to actually diminish my fondness of the Japanese version. Wish I didn't see it...
The only horror movie I'm afraid to watch again - Wojciech 06:24:04 06/24/25 (0)
And I've been watching them Turkish movies on YT for a few years already. Some Persian movies as well. Islamic movies are not as restricted and internally censored as we tend to think.

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