Theater I: The Ring

We’re continuing our scary movie month this week with a super creepy movie remake, 2002’s The Ring. This one is a tale as old as time. A reporter investigates her niece’s mysterious death, she finds a weird VHS tape, she watches the tape, she is cursed to die in seven days. I’ve seen it happen a thousand times. The VHS tape dates this movie a little bit, but it is still a really entertaining flick. We get an emotionless child and a jangly walking female monster to keep the tone very unsettling. Whomever cast David Dorfman as Aidan deserves an award because he is one of the spookiest kids in cinema history. Why would Rachel bring the tape back to her house? Why was she so quick to show the tape to Noah? Did the cameraman that filmed the tape and the editor that cut it together die a week after it was created? Who did they pass on the copy of the tape to? If you are the kind of person that gets scared easily, you might want to listen to this episode with a dog in the room.