The Ring

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“A journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone one week to the day after they view it.”

Let’s jump right to the American takes, call we? While keeping to the “cursed tape” these, there are some interesting diviations.

Firstly, the American version pics apart the images on the tape in a lot more detail, allowing us to see the connection each has in unveiling the story. But maybe that takes some of the mystery away. At the same time, you’re collecting a piece at a time which gets you hooked into finding out what’s next.

For me, I was a little creeped out my some scenes because they set the American version in the Seattle, northern Washington area and I know that area well. So things like the ferry give me shivers.

One of the core things they kept was the workaholic reporter mother who has the supremely independent son. But they took out the bit about the ex having “abilities.”

SPOILERS FROM HERE

In this version, Samara is a girl that was never meant to exist. She didn’t come from a fidgets mother – that we know of – and her mere existence caused horses to kill themselves. Does that mean she wasn’t even a human child at all?

They toss in some video of the child at a mental evaluation facility but all that showed was that she never sleeps.

So what does her imprinted image want us to now? What even is she? Where did they find her?

Gah!