Movies & TV - Oct. 20, 2002
The strength of "The Ring" is the unexplained
Fright films released around Halloween have a bad track record, but at least "The Ring" has something of a pedigree to it. A remake of a highly successful 1998 Japanese film, the Americanized version of "The Ring," as synthesized by director Gore Verbinski and "Scream 3" screenwriter Ehren Kruger, is part post-industrial fable, part ghost story, and is mostly successful at both.
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