Forget This Iconic 2002 Horror Remake, You Must Watch the Original Masterpiece Instead

Forget This Iconic 2002 Horror Remake, You Must Watch the Original Masterpiece Instead




Most people know The Ring through Gore Verbinski's remake because Hollywood blasted that image of Samara crawling out of the television directly into the early-2000s collective nervous system. The remake became such a giant cultural object that it accidentally overshadowed the film it came from. A surprising number of horror fans still aren't aware of Ringu — Hideo Nakata's 1998 original — which is strange because the Japanese version does not merely hold up beside the remake. In some ways, it feels far more unsettling now precisely because it refuses to perform horror the way modern audiences expect it to.


Most people know The Ring through Gore Verbinski's remake because Hollywood blasted that image of Samara crawling out of the television directly into the early-2000s collective nervous system. The remake became such a giant cultural object that it accidentally overshadowed the film it came from. A surprising number of horror fans still aren't aware of Ringu — Hideo Nakata's 1998 original — which is strange because the Japanese version does not merely hold up beside the remake. In some ways, it feels far more unsettling now precisely because it refuses to perform horror the way modern audiences expect it to.

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