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The Ring tells the story of a cursed videotape. Anyone who watches it will receive a phone call just seconds after the tape ends, with the caller on the other end saying, "Seven days." After Aidan Keller (David Dorfman) loses his cousin Katie (Amber Tamblyn) to the curse, his mother Rachel (Naomi Watts), an investigative reporter, tries to find the cause of Katie's death and the source of the tape.

The Ring is an American remake of the 1998 Japanese horror film, Ringu (1998) (aka Ring), which was based on Ring, a 1991 horror novel by Japanese writer Kôji Suzuki. It is the first novel in the four book Ring series, followed by Spiral (Japanese: Rasen) (1995), Loop (Japanese: Rupu) (1998), and The Birthday (1999). There are also a series of mangas based on the Ring series. The screenplay for The Ring, the American-made movie, was co-written by Kôji Suzuki and American screenwriter Ehren Kruger. It was followed by a sequel, The Ring Two (2005) in 2005.

Yes. About 35-40 minutes into the movie, Rachel's leads take her to Shelter Mountain Inn, where Katie and some of her friends stayed in Cabin 12 and watched the videotape. Rachel rents the same cabin and watches the tape. It's a short set of random images, some ordinary and some disturbing, e.g., faces, furniture, trees, bugs, fire, etc., all preceded and followed by static snow.

People who have seen The Ring sometimes liken the movie to Poltergeist (1982) which also features ghosts haunting a family through their television set. The Sixth Sense (1999) features a young boy who sees ghosts, while in The Changeling (1980), the ghost is a young child and also features a well. Also recommended are The Grudge movies-The Grudge (2004), The Grudge 2 (2006), and The Grudge 3 (2009)-three Japanese -American movies that also are concerned with a curse that keeps cycling through anyone who comes in contact with it. In The Ruins (2008), a group of tourists are held captive in the ruins of a Mayan temple that also houses man-eating vines. Likewise, in Stephen King's The Mist (2007), a group of people are forced to take cover in a supermarket when their town is invaded by a strange mist that brings with it some otherworldly, blood-thirsty creatures. It Follows (2014) may also be of interest.