Alright, I’ll address the OP. I’ve been a big fan of the original Ring, so I checked out the American version, and I personally found it a very good adaptation. Here’s the basics: major spoilers
A group of teens go out of town for a little weekend away, and while they’re gone, they try to record a football game or something. when they come back, they press play, only what comes up on screen is some very fucked up images. When the images stop, the phone rings, and a voice on the other end of the phone says “Seven Days.”
Seven days later, all the kids die at the same time, one from an apparent suicide, a couple in a “car accident”, and the last, seemingly for no reason, only that her body is found in her closet horribly and grotesquely twisted. This girl’s older cousin is a news reporter, so she starts to look into her cousin’s death and see if there’s any truth to the urban legend that has sprung up around it. She travels to the little cottage her cousin went to, and in the office finds an unmarked video casset, so she takes it, and watches it in the cabin. Same fucked up images, same creepy phone call.
the next day, she calls up her ex-husband to look at it and try to help determine who made it and what clues can be brought about from it. As time goes on and they delve more into the history of the tapes “creator,” they discover a twisted story about a family in Washington state that raised and raced horses. After many, MANY attempts at having a child, the couple finally had one, but the child was twisted…she never slept, she creeped the shit out of people, and “burnded images into their mind.” Eventually, the mother went insane and commited suicide. But what happened to the daughter?
AS the time goes on, the reporter, Rachel, begins to see images and have other strange occurrances happen around her (including coughing up one of those little stickems they put on you in the hospital when running tests). After this, she runs into the other room to find that her son’s seen the movie. With only a few days left, the race is really on to figure out what happened and how to stop the curse.
Eventually, Rachel and her ex discover the little girl was murdered, adn the tape and curse are her revenge. They put the clues together, find the body, as the final hour approaches for Rachel. The hour passes, and she’s okay. She returns home, finds her son asleep, and cuddles up next to him to relax. The next day, they awake, and her son asks her where she’s been and if she’s seen the little girl (oh yeah, the kid has some creepy Shinning esque telepathic powers and has been having visions of the girl as well. Rachel informs him that her and the ex have helped the little girl, and everything’s okay. At which point, the little boy looks at her terrified and says “You helped her? Why did you do that?”
At which point, the ex husband’s television comes on on it’s own as he sits at his desk looking over some photos. The image of a well appears, and then, the little girl climbs out of it. Slowly, she walks towards the screen, until she COMES OUT OF THE TELEVISION AND INTO THE ROOM!!! Terrified, the ex (Noah) falls over his coffee table and tries to get away, but it’s to no avail. He looks directly at the little girl, she looks at him with a look of anger, and then…
Rachel arrives, leaves terrified by what she’s seen, and goes home to wonder what it is that she did differently that he didn’t, and what she can do to save her son. The answer: She coppied the tape. So, she gets her son to copy the tape to continue the curse, and the ring grows.
A great movie about supernatural revenge and anger. The suspens is better in the Japanese version, but the American one throws in a bit more supernatural creepiness to keep it going, and does it well. It’s not too grotesque, but should keep you scared of your television for a good couple nights or so.
