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Title: Stick with the original.
Review: If you're looking for a good horror movie, Asian cinema seems to be the place to look nowadays. Nothing exemplifies this more than The Ring. A remake of a 1998 Japanese film, the American version is lacking everything that made the original such a talked-about hit. The two most important aspects that it never can quite achieve are subtlety and atmosphere. In the orginal, the kids all look as though they've died of fright. In the remake, they look as though they've died of fright, AND THEN TURNED INTO DECAYING, DEMONIC CORPSES!!!! All this did was to add to the special effects budget. It doesn't improve the atmosphere, and it totally ignores the idea of subtlety. You don't need decaying, gooey, demonic corpses to make a creepy, disturbing movie.The DVD looks good, sounds good, has a short movie made just for the DVD, but I'd recommend skipping this and buying the original.
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