Has anyone managed to see this movie yet?!? I hear it is just awesome!

Apparently, <i>The Rung</i> is loosely based on an old Kurosawa film of the same name (only in Japanese). Anyway, the gist of the story is that there's these two teenagers that purchase this old rickety ladder at a swapmeat and take it home with them. One of them uses the ladder to reshingle his father's roof. The other, however, uses the ladder to install light bulbs in his attic.

What ensues next is something that is likely to scare the living hell out of people when they watch this movie. As soon as one of the kids begins to climb the ladder, he notices that one of the <i>rungs</i> creaks beneath his weight. He just figures it's due to the stress-related fractures caused by age on the ladder. What he doesn't realize, though, is that one of the ladder's rungs is cursed with supernatural phenomena!

Soon afterward, he gives the ladder to the friend installing the light bulbs. This guy not only misses the <i>rung</i> on his way up the ladder (I guess he takes things two steps at a time), but on his way down he manages to miss it again! However, soon afterward, his father asks him to trim the hedges in the yard and this time he doesn't miss the <i>rung</i>. On his way up the ladder, the <i>rung</i> gives way, sending the hapless kid down about a foot and a half, badly scraping the kid's knee.

Naturally he decides to sell the damn thing. So, get this, he patches it up, throws some bailing wire on the thing, calls it good and then proceeds to sell it in his family's garage sale!

And the movie just kind of hangs after that (from what I've heard anyway). Like it's trying to tell you that the next person to buy the ladder is going to have a supernatural experience with it as well.

I don't know about you, but that <i>Rung</i> is sure to be a crowd pleaser whenever it comes out.

That's kind of funny! Did you write it all yourself?

I thought The Ring was a fucking terrible movie. It's a new-wave horror movie hoping to come off as suspenseful and unpredictable, but the plot holes do a lot to destroy its enjoyability.

agreed, the ring was terrible. What the fuck?

"but how did this tape get made?"
"She didn't make it, she just thought it and it WAS"

The plot sucked, the acting sucked, and the tape wasn't even scary.

could it be because they actually liked it and it scared the balls out of them?

I loved this movie and I'll be a man about this and not a little child by saying it kinda even freaked me out for a while. Also, you have to realize that it wasn't made to be an Academy Award winner, just a film that is somewhere in between a B film and your traditional Hollywood movie. What I am trying to say, it was supposed to be fun! Lighten up!

Anyway, just having a tv and a computer monitor in my room kind of freaks me out after having seen that movie and the fact that she (Samara, which is a freaky enough name) just thought it and it was there is the scariest thing about the movie. Its kind of a metaphor for life, especially in this fast and crazy electronic computer world, you think it and it appears.

I liked the Ring. I liked that they weren't able to stop the girl, but other than that fact, the ending sucked. And I don't buy that Samara thought hte tape and it just was.
Anyway, wasn't there talk about a sequel??

The best way to enjoy a movie is to enjoy it for what it is, great or not and to try and generate some interesting thoughts from it. I don't know when everyone was brain-washed into becoming a film-student, i.e. in today's world film student=critic.

Anyway, Nightpoet I thought is was rather well put togther and the plot came around neatly in a circle, hence the ring. Again its a metaphor for life, whether we like it or not Samara is coming for us all one day. Think about this, life is the circle between birth and death. We always begin where we start, it is the curse of the biology.

Also, if you have read Dante, you will know that even hell was structured in circles. Life is about circles, get in where you fit in and try to avoid Samara because she is the devil. :)

Oh and what is your theory about how the x-rays and the movie came to be if they didn't just appear, because I think maybe you are on to something?

Originally posted by Nightpoet
wasn't there talk about a sequel??

There was a Ringu trilogy in Japan.

Thanks Valentino.

fredx-I was reading on the IMDB message boards, and someone pointed out that the first four kids were trying to tape a football game, but something else happened. I had forgotten about that, but it makes sense. The person went on to point out that the cabin was directly over Samara's burial site so she probably burned the images on. That makes way more sense than the tape just "appearing."

My question is though, did the Morgans summer or something where that camp now is? Because it seems kind of odd. First, because Mrs. Morgan was wearing a Victorian-style dress, and also, the whole situation wasn't that old, but already a cabin had been put up and had time to become weathered and rickety? Is this confusing to anyone else?

Of course it's fishy, stupid Hollywood. There are less plot holes in Ringu .

I was wonderng if Samara had sprung to life perhaps more than once.
Anyway, *must get hands on Ringu*

Ringu = Shit! :D Face it.

That makes alot of sense. I didn't catch all of that, i.e they were trying to tape the football game. It makes sense since the tape took control of the VCR whenever anyone put it in. This stuff is too creepy. Anyway, interesting you said she burned it on, yes her hand prints burned every thing they touched, I forgot about that. It makes me think of how all young people are burning CDs of movies and music, I think there is another metaphorical connection there. It also makes me think of how I have a tattoo and how that is in a way burned on. Anyway, from a societal view what is burned into us is the problem and what we sometimes can't escape. Remember, the movie was really mostly about neglected children and kids from broken homes, that was the circle of people that watched it, and it was problably the circle of people that watched it in real life, people that have real issues with their family. I think it really took a girl to make the insights that you came up with which is why I asked you, but that is not taking a way from what you have discovered. Nice eyes, good research.

Originally posted by fredx
I think it really took a girl to make the insights that you came up with

Why pray tell would it take a girl exactly?

they notice things that we don't.
They are always looking in the den while we are mindlessly watching brainless sporting events. (about the taping football scene)
Right away that struck her as a common experience, I didn't even notice it.
Also, woman tend to do alot of scolding, like the woman that grabs her child angrily by the wrist in the supermarket, it leaves a bruise that is in a sense traumatizes the kid and leaves a mental scar or burn. (the little boy got the scar on the wrist in the movie)
All of this is very psychological and subtle, something which we men are not always attuned to.
For example, the little boy in the movie was not like most other little boys, he was sensitive of feelings and emotions, he just seemed to notice or "intuit" things, in a way he wrote the whole "horror" in his head. Maybe the movie, like "Final Destination 2", "Signs" and almost any other horror movie that comes out, was really the kid's dream sequence.
Before you go thinking you know everything about these films, maybe you should go watch "The Sixth Sense" one more time and see who was "dreaming" and who was wide awake.