Why Do People Think The Ring Is Scary?

[Dog--]

Everyone I talk to says The Ring + The Ring 2 is scary, but it's the stupidest peice of unscary crap that has ever disgraced my DVD player.

 

[Steven]

I actually thought it was funny.

 

[Mechagodzilla]

It's not terribly "scary", but it is intelligent and genuinely creepy in a way that few contemporary horror features are.

The problem here is that the creepiness comes from the subtext. It's an intellectual horror.
If you're in it just for shit to pop out at you, it's no wonder you were disappointed.

That being said, the sequel is generally considered craptastical.

 

[Gunner]

Meh first time I saw it, I was a little creeped out by the kid but since then there have been a thousand horror flicks including remakes by american studios with creepy kids.

 

[Axyon]

I assume you're not talking about Ringu, which is genuinely disturbing/scary.

 

[MTG_Maro]

Yes, Ringu was real fffing good.

 

[Lucid]

Never saw any japanese horror before The Ring, so yeah... it sufficiently creeped me out the first time I saw it.

Still have yet to see Ringu, but I saw Ju-on... and pretty much shat myself.

 

[Jonathan_McEnroe]

"Everyone I talk to says The Ring + The Ring 2 is scary, but it's the stupidest peice of unscary crap that has ever disgraced my DVD player."

Unless you mean the American ones then that's understandable. However, the original Japanese version had all the elements executed in the best way, plus it wasn't a polished, bright, hollywood horror film. The style in which the film was shot in the original Japanese version is a lot more natural, darker and doesn't try and jump out at you.

The first original one was by far the best one, the second, felt a little too cleaned up.

Jonny

 

[Bad^Hat]

Ringu is brilliance. I wouldn't say it was too scary, but it was incredibly fecking creepy, in the way that I had a hard time looking at a blank TV set for like a year afterwards o_o

The american version, yeah, craptastic.

Also, while the first (american) Ring is a remake of the original, the sequels are totally different. The american Ring 2 is utter trash, while the japanese one is actually pretty decent. Ring 0 is nothing special though =/

 

[theotherguy]

The ring is by far the scariest movie i've ever seen, but I am a bit biased.

The reason for this is that the ring emulates almost exactley "night terrors" that I've been having all my life about once a month. In these night terrors I have the same dream, exactley the same dream every time, and it can only be described as being simililar to the black-and-white film that kills people in the ring. ie. random images flashing up, some with disturbing imagery, stuff moving really slowly and then speeding up, random ringing noises and then sudden loud pops, this is exactley how my night terrors are.

and if you haven't guessed by the name, night terrors are extremley terrifying. They effect your brain and cause you to release massive amounts of adrenaline and it really is a horrifying experience.

The ring triggers the same feeling in me....not neccesarily the movie in general, but the movie that kills people in the film just freaks me out.

 

[Dog--]

The film in the movie didn't have scary images, they were retarded images.

 

[KagePrototype]

What one person might find scary, another won't. The Blair Witch Project scared the hell out of me when I saw it, but everyone I know hated it.

 

[Dog--]

I think video games desensitised me or something.. I don't find hardly any horror movies scary... the only scary movie was Signs, when I first saw it.. it wasn't scary it was creepy.. now it isn't scary... meh..

 

[Qonfused]

The Blair Witch Project was scary and so was The Ring. Not "scary" to the point of yelling but... psychologically. I like smart horrors that scare you little by little to build up the suspense. The Ring shocked you little by little with scenes from the movie. Gore horror movies, I think, are stupid. Ok, he's blow torching her face off... how is that scary? It's not. The gore movies don't let you THINK. That's what separates good horrors from bad.

 

[xcellerate]

I really liked the ring (the 2nd one was a new level of bad), and the blair witch project was cool till it finally hit me that, oh yea it's fake. They did a real good job of making it appear real, up until the 'map' part.

 

[KagePrototype]

The Blair Witch Project was scary and so was The Ring. Not "scary" to the point of yelling but... psychologically. I like smart horrors that scare you little by little to build up the suspense. The Ring shocked you little by little with scenes from the movie. Gore horror movies, I think, are stupid. Ok, he's blow torching her face off... how is that scary? It's not. The gore movies don't let you THINK. That's what separates good horrors from bad.

What's to think about? Suspense should avoid making people think. Suspension of disbelief and all that, you don't wanna ruin the punchline after all.

 

[Adabiviak]

It scared me - couldn't say why exactly. I didn't like seeing her suddenly move quickly. It's the same reason that F.E.A.R. still scares me. Now I just get goose bumps and my heart will seize.

 

[Parlez]

I have never seen it because I despise of Scary Movies. But the ring did not look all that scary as compared to some movies.

 

[Jack_Karverboy]

Ring 2 wasn't really scary, just weird and made no sense...The Ring scared me though. Not like the girl crawling out of the tv, more like the more subtle freaky crap.

 

[Que-Ever]

Ok, tell me what you think is scarier-

and she is going to rip off your face. Or-

Makes a wisecrack about how he is going to rip off your face.

Seriously, I think the chick, with the eye, yeah. I got scared doing the image search for that picture.

 

[dfc05]

I think video games desensitised me or something.. I don't find hardly any horror movies scary... the only scary movie was Signs, when I first saw it.. it wasn't scary it was creepy.. now it isn't scary... meh..

I found Signs more funny than scary. There were so many silly jokes in that movie.

I didn't find the Ring to be that scary. One of my friends said he went to watch it in the theater and fell asleep . I also didn't find FEAR scary, and I played it at night too. Oh well.

Probably the only movie I've found to be creepy was this old black-and-white 1980 version of Fall of the House of Usher that we saw in school. No actors, just a narrator, and creepy... things. It's like the video that they showed in the Ring but so much worse, and the entire movie is like that. It's like they took these miniature props and moved them around and filmed it in stop-motion animation... makes you very uncomfortable. Like, you'd see a coffin sliding along by itself and they don't hide the fact that it's just a little prop but it's freaky. And then there's this part in the middle of it where they use claymation and this clay is moving in abstract shapes and twisting and swirling around, and again, with the stop-motion animation the animation isn't very smooth, and yet, the way it's moving is. The walls start bleeding. Mold starts growing. It's crazy. I think by the time my class finished watching it we were all just like "Uhhhhhh... what the heck was that," and my teacher was probably amused and laughing to himself. If you can find this movie, watch it.

http://www.illumin.co.uk/svank/films/usher/usher.html

There was also a black and white version of Tell-Tale Heart that we saw in the same class. It had actors but there was this scary scene where the guy was cutting up chicken in the kitchen :O. So my teacher was kinda weird, and it's the end of the school day and we're watching Edgar Allen Poe movies with people subtly murdering each other, and my teacher has to say, "OK kids go home and eat some chicken." AUGH.

Also, on the topic of creepy things... creepy stories to read!
The Yellow Wallpaper (insanity is scary)
The Landlady (the end is so sick; old ladies are evil)
And of course, who could forget the leg of lamb story. Roald Dahl has a twisted mind.
READ THEM.