"I think before you die, you see the ring... "Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) investigates the mysterious death of her niece and discovers that she had gone to a cabin with some friends a week before her death. There they had watched a mysterious video. Seven days later, all the friends were dead. Rachel intreged, is compelled to track down the video and try and piece the mystery together. She finds and watches the tape herself, then receives a phone call telling her she will die in seven days. Now it's a race against time to dicipher the video, especially when her son Aidan (David Dorfman) also watches the film and falls under the same curse.
A remake of the successful Asian horror, this maintains the same pall of dread that the original did. Having seen and loved the original Ringu, I was loath to watch this, believing it to be a lame remake. But this version is sufficiently different to make the story its own. Its not just copying the original but develops on it subtly helped by the well crafted cinematography.
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