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| | Premiere Magazine: The Ring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | The two films, adapted from the Koji Suzuki novel Ring, translate as gothic fever dreams, each stretching reality to a confusing noir of emblematic terrors, from murderous, spectral girls to deranged, drowning horses. |
 | | In the American version, Naomi Watts plays a newspaper journalist trying to save herself and her spooky kid by uncovering the secrets of the aforementioned deadly VHS (which looks like a Trent Reznor video directed by Kafka, or vice versa). |
 | | Unlike Ringu, whose understated, poeticized plotting includes ESP and unexplainable phenomena, The Ring ties up all loose ends with science asif pressured by Hollywood law, even manipulating many of its scares by way of cheap orchestral tweaks. |
| www.premiere.com /article.asp?section_id=4&article_id=993 (230 words) |
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