#93: The Ring (2002)

Your niece dies, you see a spooky video, and your kid won’t stop calling you by your first name…WELL, you better make the best of it.  There’s a lot to this one but hold your horses, it won’t take us seven days to get to the end of 2002’s creepy text chain personified, The Ring.

***CONTENT WARNING: abuse, suicide, animal cruelty

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Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula ([email protected])

Music: Epic Industrial Music Trailer by SeverMusicProd

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Works Referenced:

• The Ring Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ring_(2002_film) 

• The Ring IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298130/ 

• “The Full Story of The Ring Franchise”: https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/features/803373-ring-franchise-movies 

• “The Ring: Why The American Remake Cut 50 Percent Of The Original Story”

• https://screenrant.com/ring-movie-gore-verbinski-changes-original-movie-explained/#:~:text=In%20the%20American%20version%2C%20when,layered%20mystery%20and%20psychic%20phenomena

• “Okiku’s Ghost: The True Scary Story that Inspired ‘The Ring’”:

• https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3421393/okikus-ghost-true-scary-story-inspired-ring/ 

• Balanzategui, Jessica. The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema : Ghosts of Futurity at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century. Amsterdam University Press, 2018, https://doi.org/10.5117/9789462986510.