THIS COULD'VE BEEN AVOIDED! - The Ring
About a year ago, my friend recommended that I watch The Ring , the 2002 horror film from Gore Verbinski, because it was among her favorite movies. And while I didn't get into it as much as she did, I still think it's a great movie with a really inventive premise. It does the Koji Suzuki novel justice perfectly. However, watching this movie made me think about certain movies that could've ended in their first, like, ten minutes. What's this movie's case? Well, let's start. The movie's premise involves a mystery revolving around a cursed video tape that kills you seven days after you watch it. You guys know the one, the one wit the well and Samara Morgan crawling out of the TV. It's a staple of horror iconography next to Ghostface from Scream . However, here's my takeaway: one of the two girls at the beginning seems aware that the Ring tape kills you after watching it...and waiting the seven days, of course. In fact, seven days before the film started...