"Everyone must suffer..."

[cosmolinguist]

I had no interest in The Ring when I first saw the trailer. I didn't get it, and I didn't care. I always think I can write horror movies off with impunity; they never scare me, I'm usually just bored.

But I loved it. Even more than I thought I would. It inspired in me shock, revulsion, and a case of the screamin' heebie jeebies. The only thing wrong with my experience with this movie was a nagging question: "Would this be better if it weren't so blurry?" (My glasses are still missing; replacements are supposed to be here Monday or Tuesday.) I think it would have been. Some things I wasn't properly scared by, and some of the "clues" I didn't catch at all.

Was it for this movie that the trailer ended with "Don't see it alone"? Or was that Signs? I don't remember...but it should have been this one (not Signs! Signs didn't scare me at all--though I have a friend who says she locked her bedroom door for a week after seeing it...).

At some point during the movie I had a thought that Tess articulated rather well afterwards: "I don't think that would be a very good movie to watch alone after midnight..." Immediately followed by "when's the DVD coming out?"

My thoughts exactly.

Comments

[soltice.livejournal.com]

Was that me? I can't remember... I'm just enjoying the irony that I haven't been able to go to sleep *without* the television on. Ack, glutton for punishment I guess...

[karaksindru.livejournal.com]

reminds me of a halloween party I went to some years back ... there was a bit of a 'haunted house' the guests would go through that started with being blindfolded. Naturally they took my glasses off to blindfold me. After that, everything was indistinct shapes, and not scary at all ...

*shrug*

[tartful-dodger.livejournal.com]

Jesus Christ the Ring scared the crap out of me.

The moment after watching it and I'm sprawled out mostly asleep on a mattress in front of the telly and suddenly I hear 'seven daaaays' jump up and see Samara staring at me. I scream like Sarah Brightman naturally, convinced I'm about to die until I realise that Mike is sat there watching some media chart review show on MTV. I did not sleep for a weeeek!