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	The Cursed Videotape - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A blank videotape such as this was the carrier for the "Ring Virus" curse.
		In the earlier Japanese films, it is explained as a traditional curse, though given a far greater explanation in later films and in the novels.
		When someone watches the cursed tape (or something else carrying the curse) some of their cells' DNA is psychokinetically infected by the Ring Virus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Cursed_Videotape (2372 words)

	Towel-Headed Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first appearance of the THM is during the Cursed Videotape that is prominent throughout the film.
		While Ryuji's student (and girlfriend) Mai Takano is researching the strange events surrounding the videotape in Ringu 2, she visits the psychiatric ward where Masami Kurahashi, a friend of Reiko's niece (who had been killed by Sadako), had been staying since becoming psychologically scarred from witnessing Sadako's attack.
		As he appears on the Cursed Videotape, the THM is likely wearing a light shirt and dark pants, definitely not anything that Ryuuji has ever donned in the movie.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Towel-Headed_Man (1456 words)

	the ringworld - faq - the American films
		The conclusion of that analysis was that at least one of the chairs on the videotape refers to the one in Samara's loft.
		Yet another theory is that the intestine resembles an umbilical cord, which would indicate either a prenatal connection to the horses or the notion that watching the cursed video allows something to be born inside the viewer (a nod, perhaps, to the original novels).
		The images on the videotape would indicate that Samara had powers of foresight--she was probably aware (at least on some level) of her own death.
	www.theringworld.com /faq2.php (6475 words)

	Movie-Vault.com: Print Review
		At the funeral, Reiko overhears her niece’s friends mention a cursed videotape, a tape that if watched, results in death exactly one week later.
		Reiko and Ryuji assume, as does the audience, that unlocking the video, discovering its meaning, is connected to solving the mystery of the ghost, reconciling the ghost with her death, and lifting the curse.
		The cursed video and the ghost are far more insidious than the traditional ghost story, with its resolution into reconciliation and redemption, might suggest.
	www.movie-vault.com /archive/printreview.pl?action=moviereview&movieid=SvDvmzjqXAGQDOrK (707 words)

	Teleport City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Reiko's curiosity regarding the cursed video is piqued when one of her own relatives' death is attributed to having seen the tape.
		The young Yoichi is rarely the center of attention, and when he is, child actor Rikiya Otaka is somber, soft-spoken, and completely devoid of the annoying traits most children in movies (and in real life, for that matter) tend to exhibit.
		Because of this, when his fate is called into question by his viewing the videotape, you actually don't want to see him die a horrible and mysterious death.
	www.teleport-city.com /movies/reviews/r-s/ring.html (3216 words)

	DVD Times - The Ring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Taking an unmarked videotape from the reception in a motel in the mountains, Rachel watches it and finds that it is the one at the centre of the rumour and on receiving the telephone call warning her of impending death, she leaves the hotel and takes the videotape with her for further investigation.
		The scene in which Rachel watches the cursed videotape is also entirely effective and the manner in which her realisation of death creeping towards her is better than one might have supposed.
		Finally, the genuinely disturbing videotape of the original is replaced by something that could have been produced by a film student with an imagination erring on the side of morbidity.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=5508 (1614 words)

	Movie-Vault.com: Print Review
		All the elements from the more successful Ringu are here: an enterprising female journalist, a cursed videotape, a supernatural deadline, a young woman with witch-like powers (and cascading fl hair), a well, and some sly misdirection that casually subverts horror conventions.
		Working backwards, she uncovers the cursed videotape at a holiday resort (a cabin in the woods in the other two versions).
		Curious, she watches the videotape, soon discovering that viewing the videotape has awakened the curse: in seven days time, she’ll be dead.
	www.movie-vault.com /archive/printreview.pl?action=moviereview&movieid=vKxHWvDisPlnfDBz (789 words)

	SCREEN IT! ARTISTIC REVIEW: THE RING TWO
		Horror: A single mother must save her son from being possessed by a dead girl's ghost that previously haunted a cursed videotape that kills its viewers a week after watching it.
		Considering that videotape is so passé nowadays -- what with DVD and Tivo-type devices all but making the once groundbreaking home video format obsolete -- I guess it's appropriate that the signature element found in the 2002 horror flick "The Ring" is only briefly present in the 2005 sequel before being destroyed.
		First, there was the mystery needing to be solved element regarding the videotape, its origins and the overall back-story behind it that turned the film into a supernatural detective story.
	www.screenit.com /ourtake/2005/the_ring_two.html (1163 words)

	The Ring
		So now, Asegawa is cursed, and the story follows her efforts at decrypting the mysterious imagery of the video.
		As the story develops, she finds more and more convincing evidence that the tape is really cursed and that she is going to die.
		Ryuji does not believe that Asekawa is cursed by the videotape until she gives him a bit of concrete evidence.
	www.lsu.edu /necrofile/comic10 (1344 words)

	Ring (film) - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The film stars Nanako Matsushima, Hiroyuki Sanada and Rikiya Otaka as a divorced family each cursed by a strange cursed videotape.
		The film was later remade in Korea as The Ring Virus (1999), and in the United States as The Ring (2002).
		All three films retain the basic premise of a cursed videotape that kills the viewer seven days after being watched (a plot device that was central to an earlier novel, "Rune" by Christopher Fowler in 1990).
	www.psychcentral.com /psypsych/Ringu (504 words)

	The Ring Two Review
		Think about this, you're a writer of this film, and you have a cursed videotape on your hands along with a demon girl who kills anyone who watches it seven days later.
		The jist this time revolves more around Rachel and her son Aidan rather than the cursed videotape, the trail of bodies left in it's path, and Samara herself as the first "Ring" did.
		Mostly because she wants to make sure her fear that the cursed videotape has resurfaced is nothing to be concerned about.
	www.angelfire.com /scary/horror9/TheRingTworeview.html (1124 words)

	The Movies 1 of 2
		Following the deaths of her niece Tomoko and 3 other teenagers, local journalist Asakawa Reiko decides to investigate on a controversial urban legend - a cursed videotape that kills whoever watches it after 7 days.
		After viewing the tape and realizing that the curse might in fact be real, she turns to her ex-husband and college professor Takayama Ryuji.
		In the midst of her search, Mai stumbles across the information about a cursed videotape that kills its viewer within a week.
	www.angelfire.com /ultra/rage0/movies.html (558 words)

	Movie Madness! - RING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rumor has it that the cursed video is responsible, all of them having watched it together on a weekend trip.
		Her investigation becomes a race against time as evidence mounts supporting the curse’s reality, and she desperately tries to put together the clues provided by the tape.
		The viewer can’t help but feel the curse settle in every time the bizarre tape is shown – especially when you notice that it’s never quite the same twice.
	www.s92630529.onlinehome.us /mm/r/ringu.htm (684 words)

	The Ring Movie Review by Anthony Leong from MediaCircus.net
		With potentially only one week remaining before she succumbs to the videotape's curse, Rachel enlists the help of her ex-boyfriend Noah (Martin Henderson of "Windtalkers").
		Particularly chilling are the disturbing montage on the cursed videotape, the horrifying scene that the tape's victims see before they die, and the film's grim ending, which reveals that because of Rachel's curiosity, a Pandora's Box of misery has been unleashed upon the world.
		The 'revenge from the grave' aspect of the story, the rationale behind the videotape's curse, and the parallel drawn between Samara's sad fate and the dysfunctional relationship between Rachel and her son Aidan are just some of the angles that Kruger beefs up in "The Ring".
	www.mediacircus.net /ring.html (861 words)

	SCREEN IT! PARENTAL REVIEW: THE RING TWO
		A teenage boy, knowing he's afflicted by the videotape curse and with time running out, tries to convince a female classmate to watch the film (so that the curse is transferred from him to her).
		As Rachel burns the cursed videotape, we see that the curse has instantly transferred to the TV set back in her house.
		We hear the sounds of a teenager being killed or at least frightened to death by the cursed videotape and/or Samara.
	www.screenit.com /movies/2005/the_ring_two.html (3595 words)

	Rotten Tomatoes: The Vine: Fyodor Fish on Film
		With a compelling storyline centered on a cursed videotape, a deadly, supernatural deadline, a well, and an enigmatic fl-haired ghost named Sadako, Ringu became a box-office and critical success.
		In Ringu, Reiko and her son seemingly managed to escape the deadly effects of the cursed videotape, but not before Reiko chose a path that irrevocably compromised her conscience (and, in turn, continued the curse).
		Left unresolved are Sadako’s fate and the cursed videotape’s impact on both survivors and victims (the final scene includes the suggestion that victims can somehow take on Sadako’s role, spreading the viral curse to additional victims).
	www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/journal_comments.php?journalid=61563&entryid=232863 (881 words)

	Killer Videotape The Actually One - Videotape (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For one thing, the imagery on the videotape (a ladder falling, an empty chair, an...
		A videotape is just one way to document a vision, and nothing that elaborate is required.
		was that at least one of the chairs on the videotape refers to the one in Samara...
	www.wvsixteen.com /videotape/killer-videotape-the-actually-one.php (419 words)

	Into Liquid Sky - Anime/Manga Reviews
		For those with short memories, Ryuji died at the end of Ring, a victim of a cursed videotape that kills anyone who watches it after seven days.
		Ando's investigation into Ryuji's death leads him to a string of victims and a realization that the cursed videotape is only the surface of the issue.
		It was intended to put a real-world face to the true cause of the curse.
	www.intoliquidsky.net /site/anime_manga/spiral.html (491 words)

	Classic-Horror Review of Ring (1998)
		The story of a cursed videotape that kills the viewer within seven days ought not to be this scary.
		Similarly, the story of a cursed videotape takes on a whole new significance when you find yourself sitting in front of your television and watching that very tape.
		The cursed film itself is a masterpiece of edgy surrealism.
	classic-horror.com /reviews/ring98.shtml (662 words)

	The Wire - The Ring Two (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rachel Keller (Watts) and her son Aidan (Dorfman) have pulled up stakes and moved to Oregon in an effort to leave behind their troubles with Samara, the ghostly little girl on the cursed videotape.
		With her son in the hospital suffering from a combination of hypothermia and demonic possession, Rachel is left to piece together the mystery of Samara's curse for a second time, because, after all, she never really figured it out the first time around.
		It turns out that the woman who tossed Samara down a well and got the whole spook show rolling was not, in fact, her mom.
	www.wirenh.com /Film/Film_reviews/The_Ring_Two_20050323361.html (705 words)

	Reeling: the Movie Review Show's review of The Ring Two
		After making a copy of Samara's cursed videotape to save her son Aidan (David Dorfman, "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" remake), Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts, "I Heart Huckabees") moves both of them to the coastal town of Astoria for a fresh start.
		Rachel is wracked with guilt over copying the videotape, but when she comes across a suspicious looking one at a local fair, she just leaves it there.
		Although the videotape concept is quickly dropped, the filmmakers prominently feature a television set in every room, even that of a solitary psych ward patient.
	www.reelingreviews.com /theringtwo.htm (1064 words)

	Ring 2 - movie review
		After dragging her body out from a well, an autopsy is performed on the body of Sadako, the woman responsible for the cursed videotape.
		Discovering that there was an eyewitness to the death of one of the victims of the cursed videotape, they go to a mental hospital to seek out Kurahashi Masami.
		While the movie concentrates on the impact the videotape has on people, whenever it turns creepy, the effect is as equally frightening and disturbing as the first.
	www.phase9.tv /moviereviews/ring2.shtml (646 words)

	DreamWorks SKG Fansite-The Ring 2
		In "The Ring," Naomi Watts played investigative reporter Rachel Keller, who is trying to unravel the mystery behind a deadly videotape in a desperate effort to save her own life and that of her young son.
		But that means that she has spread Samara's curse out in the world, so the curse does not end with the first movie.
		The horror side has the eerie curse of the videotape and the human side was the strength of the mother/son relationship.
	www.dreamworksfansite.com /ring2/themakingof_two.php (1780 words)

	The Ring Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Reporter Asakawa Reiko (Matsushima Nanako) is in the midst of investigating the latest urban myth--a videotape that kills all who watch it--when her niece Tomoko (Takeuchi Yuuko) suddenly dies under mysterious circumstances.
		and viewed the very cursed videotape that she has been investigating.
		When Asakawa watches the videotape herself, she enlists the help of her ex-husband Takayama Ryuji (Sanada Hiroyuki) to help solve its deadly riddle.
	www.geocities.com /lianelle19/ring.htm (341 words)

	The Dark Zone
		The Ring was originally made in 1998, based on a novel by Suzuki Koji.
		It is the tale of a cursed videotape...That kills whoever watches it.
		It has subsequently spawned a sequal, a prequal and a recent american remake.
	radio.weblogs.com /0112633/stories/2003/02/20/ring.html (104 words)

	Impact: oh no!
		The Ring, a hit 2002 horror movie, focused on a strange videotape that cursed anyone who watched it to die in 7 days.
		The only way to prevent death was to show the video to someone else before the week was over--thereby transferring the curse to him or her.
		However, unlike the cursed videotape, radicals are not supernatural, and fixes exist.
	seebojump.blogspot.com /2005/08/oh-no.html (499 words)

	DVD Review: The Ring
		But as luck would have it, this time those concerns turned out to be completely unfounded, as "The Ring" actually gets it right, and not only that, but it gets it right to the point where the remake is in no way inferior to the original.
		There are elements introduced here that actually makes this film even more frightening and disturbing, such as the bad dream sequence and the horse incident aboard the ferry, where especially the latter will leave you with a feeling of unease that should remain with you for a long time after.
		And then there's the hidden feature, in the form of the full footage of the cursed videotape that you can access on the disc's main menu.
	www.movie-page.com /dvd/reviews/ring.htm (734 words)

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