
The Ring (2002) - Hollywood gets Japanese cinema wrong. Everything that was good about the original movie, the subtlety, the psychological terror, Sadako ruining the sight of Japanese girls in white dresses for all time for one particularly good friend of ours, gets thrown out of the window once the Americans get hold of it. Loud, proud, and in your face - the only scary thing about this re-make is that it ever dared get made in the first place. Hollywood can get the balance between US and Japanese horror right - see Dark Water - but they eviscerated this movie. Watch the Japanese version instead. It's brilliant.
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