Is no one scared of the Ring anymore?

[Ealyssa]

Scariest shit I've ever seen

I even took this profile picture from the most iconically scary scene to intimidate other people

And that's the sadest one...

[DarkAmbient]

I found both The Ring and The Grudge profoundly disturbing. To this date I still consider them the scariest films I've ever seen.

I thought Kairo was pretty creepy too. One scene in particular of a ghost dancing in an arcade was really effective. It was just a dark shape that initially looked like a woman but when it began slowly moving it started to blur and shift in an odd and indistinct way. The imagery stuck with me.

[StillMcfuu]

The remake is still one of the best horror movies of all time, but because of that it becomes too widely known and it loses that scare factor. Look at Exorcist or Jaws, still phenomenal movies, but the scenes that traumatized people are no longer "special" mainly because the movie is so popular and influential.
Honestly the Japanese version was never really that scary, the US version is far superior and watching the Japanese version has the feeling of watching a cringey high-school project.

[Muxtar]

When I first watched The Ring (american one) in the cinema back in 2002 (I was 17 at a time) it scared me shitless. But after watching Scary Movie 3 for like 10ish times, I just couldn't handle laugh when I tried to re-watch The Ring in a few years. It just spoiled The Ring to me completely lol.

[StillMcfuu]

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This scene got me laid once actually made a couple of good friends from it. I mistook this girl i saw for my friends sister who I hadn't seen in a few years and was supposed to be meeting us at a club. I tapped her shoulder I said "remember me?" And she turned around and both knew instantly I had made a mistake, but I immediately swung into a high-pitched "when I killed your brother, I talked JUST LIKE THIS."

And well her and all her friends hung out with us for the rest of the night.

Putting good memories on top of a scene i already feel infinitely nostalgic for makes that a hard story not to share.

[Lora]

i saw the omen as a kid. movies havent scared me since lol

[Lodreh]

...Would you say the movie is scary or not at all in this day and age

I thought it was cute when it came out... then again I'm not bothered by most horror movies. Unnatural movements more often than not bring me out of the moment as I try to work out how they achieved that effect on screen. I would say I the day and age is irrelevant... it just wasn't scary.

[Ihavewaffles]

What is the ring about? I can only recall this woman mouthbreathing n crying how scared she is in front of camera, n the bad guy is some korean with a npc-meme mask that kills people? I'm prob talking about different movies...

[Huntermyth]

What is the ring about? I can only recall this woman mouthbreathing n crying how scared she is in front of camera, n the bad guy is some korean with a npc-meme mask that kills people? I'm prob talking about different movies...

SPOILER BELOW







there is a vhs videotape with pretty weird images - scenes in it and if you watch it, you have to make someone else watch it or you die in a week.

[Ihavewaffles]

SPOILER BELOW







there is a vhs videotape with pretty weird images - scenes in it and if you watch it, you have to make someone else watch it or you die in a week.

oh yeah, that's why I didn't see it, that sounds so dumb..

[MrPaladinGuy]

Why would we, it melted in Mount Doom.

[XDurionX]

It has become a meme. People don't fear something they laugh about.

[vincink]

As a teenager, it was scary.
As a young adult, it was not scary.
As an adult, it's stupid.

Age begets experience, experience begets confidence.

[Orby]

Scariest shit I've ever seen

The wedding ring is far worst... :P

[XDurionX]

The wedding ring is far worst... :P

I think this thread is about the doorbell when your mother in law is going to visit.

[Shadowferal]

I think this thread is about the doorbell when your mother in law is going to visit.

Also known as the suffering.

[McNeil]

The Ring doesn't age well for the fact that no one uses VHS anymore, but for the time I could definitely see why people would get scared shitless. It doesn't help that it got meme'd to death. I find it a good movie (maybe one of my favorite horrors) but I always found it more towards a thriller than a scarefest.

[Verdugo]

Maybe it's just me, but I find myself more attracted to Samara / Sadako than afraid

That would make you a kiddy diddler.

[Orange Joe]

That would make you a kiddy diddler.

How so? the movie doesn't give an age that I can find and the novel puts her at 19+

[Egomaniac]

How so? the movie doesn't give an age that I can find and the novel puts her at 19+

For the US version... Samara is ~10 and the actress that portrayed her in the first film was 12

https://thering.fandom.com/wiki/Sama...e%20of%20death.

She was about 10 years old at her time of death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daveigh_Chase

Chase was born on July 24, 1990

In 2002, Chase starred in the role of Samara Morgan in the feature film, The Ring