Two teenage girls in Seattle talk about a videotape. You watch it, the phone rings, a voice says seven days, and seven days later you die. One of the girls watched it a week ago. The film cuts to her funeral. The Ring is the American remake of Hideo Nakata’s Ringu, and it is the one that brought Japanese horror to the mainstream.
What Happens In Seven Days
Rachel Keller, the dead girl’s aunt and a journalist, finds the tape at a cabin on the Olympic Peninsula and watches it. The phone rings. She has a week. The tape itself is a minute of images: a ring of light, a ladder, a woman at a mirror, a well. She tracks them to Moesko Island, a horse farm and a girl named Samara Morgan who was adopted and had something wrong with her. Rachel’s son Aidan has seen the tape too. The well, the climb out, and the final twenty minutes with the television are the reasons people still remember it.
Why It Looks The Way It Does
Gore Verbinski shot it in constant Pacific Northwest rain with a green-grey grade that every horror film copied for a decade. Naomi Watts made this straight after Mulholland Drive. The horse on the ferry is still the most upsetting scene. The tape was shot as a real short film and exists. “Seven days” became a phone prank for a generation.
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