Shock vs dread: how J-horror classic Ring (1998) compares to its 2002 Hollywood remake

Warning: This article contains major spoilers. Directed by Hideo Nakata and based on the 1991 novel by Kozi Suzuki, the 1998 film Ring (aka Ringu) kick-started the J-horror craze of the late 1990s and early 2000s. The set-up may be simple – a cursed videotape that kills viewers seven days after watching it – but the pay-off is genuinely frightening, as murdered psychic Sadako (Rie Ino’o) crawls through the TV screen to claim her next victim. Though the film suffers from a weak heroine in the…

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