The third installment of the American series, “Rings” (2017), was a minor commercial success and a massive critical flop. ![]() “The Ring” was both horrifying and meaningfully divergent from its source material, a Japanese book and film series. The particulars of the story are less important than the version that has lodged itself in our imaginations: the tape itself, a choppy cut of generically alarming images the ringing phone, and the voice on the other end of the line whispering seven days the inhuman form crawling out of the television the waterlogged face peeking out from behind the wall of stringy black hair. In that film, Samara, a demonic orphan drowned in a well by her tormented adoptive mother, rose from the dead, via VHS tape, to terrorize the living. ![]() ![]() Released in 2002, “ The Ring” furnished us with a fresh and memorably horrifying rendition of the folkloric vengeful ghost.
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