I watched The Ring this afternoon and as luck would have it, my phone rang just as the credits were starting. I felt rather silly trying to explain to the caller why I sounded so freaked out.
Watch something that makes you laugh…and stop thinking about the movie…once you start thinking of it, watch something funny again…When I watched that movie…I was disappointed. I thought it was a dumb movie…not enough blood and killing…so just think of it this way…it could be worse
clipper, I did that to people on accident…Once to my friend and once to my bro and his friends…they were scared for weeks…and I didnt plan it, i just called to say hello…except, they were too scared to say hi back! :-Plol
We should start a club. It’s been 3, maybe 4 weeks since I’ve seen it, and I still get nervous sometimes at night.
I read until three in the morning and then slept with the TV on after watching The Ring. Recently, I skipped out on a friend’s video night after I learned one of the Japanese sequels was on the bill for the evening.
I feel really silly asking this, but has anyone ever gotten The Ring effect from a video game? I remember months after finishing all five endings of Silent Hill I would have dreams of being chased by skinny demon dogs. And I swear, every time there’s a foggy, overcast day, I watch the skies for winged beasties.
As for unscaring after a movie, I always wonder who did the catering.
I bought the Ring yesterday. I’m too scared to watch it again quite yet. Maybe I’ll watch it tommorow. During the day.
I first played Silent Hill after buying it after a strong recommendation from a friend who told me little else about the game other than to buy it. --so I had no idea what I was getting into when I popped it into my playstation.
As fate would have it–that night I first played it–I was alone. In the middle of the night. In a 5-bedroom house.
I didn’t sleep that night. Or the next. Never has a game creeped me out so much.
I always try to immerse myself into what I’m playing or watching–which is why games like Silent Hill and movies like The Ring creep me out. The pinnacle horror experience is when you try immersing yourself into something–and realizing that if it were -you- in the middle of those circumstances, knowing that you’d either lose your mind, or blow your own brains out.
At least I’m not scared on a daily basis anymore. But I still get creeped out when I turn on the TV and there’s static noise.
Then again, I scare easily. Computer games I was scared of? To numerous to mention, I guess. Phantasmagoria comes to mind (though nothing really happened in that game, I think it was just the suspense something MIGHT happen that got me). Or Alone in the Dark. Speaking of which:
I always imagined the following conversation:
Person1: Hm, we’re in a strange house, all by ourselves after being chased by horrendous zombies. We only have one weapon…what to do…what to do…
Person2: Hey, let’s split up and look through dark rooms to see if there’s even MORE ZOMBIES!!
Person1: Great idea. Ah, since you’re really experienced in hand-to-hand combat, I’ll better take the gun.
Person2: Certainly. I’ll just look through everything I find, I bet they have huge stashes of guns and ammunition hidden somewhere (chuckles)
Person1: You’re so funny! (wipes a tear of laughter from her eye) Well, no more time to dilly-dally…let’s go.
<Both go out to get their head ripped off by the first zombie they encounter as the user is a :wally like me who for the life of it can’t work out the controls>
Thanks to a combination of pre-viewing hype and vodka, I didn’t find myself scared during the movie. I thought I’d gotten away with it until a couple of days later when I was shopping and came across a life-size cutout display for some product. It featured a little girl who looked enough like Samara that my back-brain dumped a whole bunch of adrenalin into my system and used it to power me in another direction before I consciously registered what was affecting me.
For the last few nights I’ve been having some sort of strange, half remembered dream which seems to consist of a series of images from The Ring and The Blair Witch Project, which is not a good combination. The television’s on my left and the door to the rest of the basement is on my right, so I can’t even just roll over and forget about it when it wakes me up.
I don’t have a solution, but you have to respect anything that can still dig into your brain like that some three weeks after viewing.
OOB!
(That’s “BOO!” backwards.)
There, did that unscare you? 
The little girl who played Samara was also the voice of Lilo in Lilo & Stitch, and of Chihiro in Spirited Away. Whenever you start to freak out, just picture either of these innocuous little characters and realize that it’s the same little girl. Hope this helps.
Two weeks? I’ve been scared of that creepy, wet little girl since I first saw the movie in November. Especially in the shower for some reason. I keep thinking I’m going to turn around and there she’ll be, all creepy and damp. My roommate will find me hours later with that horrible Katie/Noah makeup effect she applies.
As soon as I saw the thread title, I knew what it was about.
I personally liked the movie, and ive heard about the sequels in japan. Has anyone seen them, and/or know what they entail? what is the story behind them?
The scariest thing that happened to me about that movie was about a week after i watched it, some kid at my school that i had never met before asked if i wanted “The Ring” i said, sure, and he gave me a CD-R with “The Ring” written on it. I popped it into my computer to watch it, and all it was was the video that Samara created, not the movie. Here i thought this bastard was trying to save himself by making a copy and passing it on. THEN, my cell phone rang, and it was a number i didnt know. I answered it, it was just a wrong number, but man did that get my heart beating.
The Ring. shudders I was so creeped out after I saw that, I wouldn’t even walk down a dark hallway to get to the bathroom - I had to have someone turn the lights on for me first. And I wouldn’t get into the car at the cinemas, because the passenger side was right next to a big shrub and I couldn’t be sure if something was hiding in there or not. So, basically my creeped outness was in turn both amusing and creeping out my boyfriend who was also scared but too sauve to admit it. 
Sauvness was lost though, after he turned off the tv in thr front room before we went to bed… and it turned back on. Ok, not exactly a rare occurance, if you don’t press the button hard enough it does turn off and then back in a minute or so later but the timing made us both jump.
Then, a week or so later my brother saw it. He admitted to bring creeped out, but went to bed fine. That same night I woke up feeling really sick and couldn’t sleep, and ended up watching tv in the lounge. Eventually I ended up wandering back to my room but being sick as I was I forgot to turn the tv off first. And so, of course, my brother then got up in the middle of the night after seeing The Ring to find a tv on yet no-one else in the house awake. I managed to scare the fuck out of him without even knowing. 
I love that movie. Love it. So much so that I went and saw it again. About thirty seconds into it I remembered just how terrified I was by it. So I hid under my coat for much of it.
On the plus side, I have long, stringy Samara-type hair, and, while at a party, one of my friends was talking about The Ring. This was my cue to pull my hair infront of my face, stand behind her and growl.
She screamed, dropped her drink and ran down the hall. I laughed, until I caught sight of myself in the mirror, and then it was my turn to yelp. Scary stuff.
I keep meaning to see the japanese versions, but none of my friends will watch it with me. And does anyone know if there’s an english translation of the book?
OK, I have to admit that I haven’t seen the film, and that I don’t even know what it’s about. What is so scary about this movie that it has you all so creeped-out after so long? Is it just psychologically disturbing, or is it a graphic “slasher-type” horror movie? I’m not a great fan of horror, myself, but I’m intrigued by the effect this movie apparently has…
Psychologically disturbing. Definitely. Some truly mind-shredding images. Although, I had no trouble sleeping at all after seeing it Sunday night. Of course, the migraine I had might have negated the effect.
There are about a thousand and one threads about the movie in CS. Just do a search for “ring” in thread titles in that forum in the last year and all your questions about the movie, its Japanese precursors, the books they’re based on, how scary the movie is, what happens in it, and anything else you ever wanted to know about it will be answered. You’ll even be treated to the rare (ha!) sight of me acting like a jerk if you look thoroughly enough.
According to an email I received today:
“Koji Suzuki’s novel RING, the basis for the Japanese and American movies, is finally being published in English in the U.S.! Vertical Books will be releasing it in hardcover on April 15.”