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The Ring

2002 · 115 min · Horror / Mystery · TMDB 6.7

4/5Very scaryPsychologicalSupernaturalThrillerHorror comedy

The short version:A cursed videotape and a seven-day countdown. Icy, blue, and genuinely creepy. Mild on gore; a dead horse and a child in a well.

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Scare profile

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Scary4
Not scaryExtreme
Dread4
RelaxedSuffocating
Jump scares3
NoneConstant
Disturbing3
ForgettableHaunts you
Grim3
Fun ridePunishing
Synopsis

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.

What is in it

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Violence & gore

  • Graphic goreBriefeditorial

Children & pregnancy

  • Child harmed or killedModerateeditorial
    Details (may spoil)
    • A child is killed in the backstory and the body is found.
  • Child in dangerModerateeditorial

Animals

  • Animal harmed or killedModerateeditorial
    Details (may spoil)
    • A horse panics and dies on a ferry.

Mental health & grief

  • Mental illnessBriefeditorial
  • SuicideBriefeditorial

Phobias & sensory

  • Claustrophobia & confinementModerateeditorial
  • Drowning & deep waterModerateeditorial