Ring of Terror

Starring:George E. Mather, Esther Furst, Edward Erwin, Austin Green, Norman Ollestad, Lomax Study, Pamela Raymond, Jerry Zinneman, June Smaney, Ollie O'Toole, Joseph Conway, Ann Morgan (IV), Tom Brandt, Hal Hoover, Charles Martin (II)
Director: Clark L. Paylow
Studio: Alpha Video
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Ringu Anthology of Terror (Rasen/Ringu/Ringu 2/Ringu 0)

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Ringu ANTHOLOGY
The full circle of "Ringu"
doesn't connect the dots
I would have to say this is a fascinating series

Ringu Anthology of Terror (Rasen/Ringu/Ringu 2/Ringu 0)
Starring: Koichi Sato , Miki Nakatani , Hinako Saeki , Shingo Tsurumi , and Nanako Matsushima
Director: Jôji Iida , Norio Tsuruta , and Hideo Nakata
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ASIN: B0009X765K
Release Date: 2005-08-23

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The release of Ringu - Anthology of Terror is a pretty shrewd marketing move. Even though the four discs are bare bones in content (no special features at all), the set is bound to be a must-have for completists who've gone ga-ga over the Asian horror craze -- not to mention anybody else looking for a terrific entrée to the genre. In case you're unaware, Ringu was the Japanese phenomenon that spawned the Hollywood thrillers, The Ring and The Ring Two. The Japanese hit also led the way for a slew of other Japanese and Korean movies that gave global prominence to a unique style emphasizing psycho chills over blood, guts, and the overt scare tactics that have pretty much defined Western horror movies in the modern era. The four entries in the Ringu cycle are a little uneven, but legitimate DVD library mainstays for anyone with even a passing interest in classics of horror.

Ringu -- The granddaddy of Asian horror, or J-horror, was based on a bestselling novel by Koji Suzuki (as are all the movies in this set) and directed by Hideo Nakata, both of whom have become icons of the genre. Unlike the Americanized version, Ringu is perhaps more nerve wracking for the psychological tension it develops in the mystery of a cursed videotape, Sadako, the tormented girl dead for 30 years at the bottom of a well, and a little boy and his mother who must unravel the secret before the curse catches up with them. The details of life in modern Japan become all the more sinister as routine is upended by unfathomable madness.

Rasen -- This weakest entry in the set is a direct sequel to "Ringu," and tries to weave a plot thread about a virus that infects any person who watches the cursed video. Though it adheres to some of the genre standards, the thrills are few and far between. Even for a story where a high level of suspension of disbelief is required, the plot line of a doctor trying to solve a mystery that clearly has no scientific basis just feels wrong. There are also precious few innovations of style in what comes off as little more than a perfunctory exercise.

Ringu 2 -- Back in style, form, and disturbing content, this more apt sequel again finds director Hideo Nakata at the reigns (as he was for the much different take of Hollywood's The Ring Two). The story follows the young research assistant of Ryuji, one of Sadako's victims from the first film, as she becomes involved in the mystery of the tape. Ringu 2 intriguingly expands on the themes of the original film while resurrecting some of its characters and introducing new terrors. It also expands the stylistic limits of how horror movies can be all the more effective for stressing subtlety, intelligence, and uniqueness of vision.

Ringu Ø -- Perhaps the most absorbing of the four, this prequel to the Ringu saga takes place 30 years in the past. It reveals the origin of Sadako's miserable journey to becoming a hateful spirit seething with wrath, rotting at the bottom of an old well waiting to reap vengeance on those who cast their gaze in the wrong direction. Full of inventive visual flair, there are some seriously creepy moments and ingenious sequences in the story of an acting troupe whose members mysteriously vanish or go insane. Sadako may or may not be behind it all, but the bloody finale makes clear that she'll have her revenge, whether she is to blame or not. --Ted Fry

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Full Circle............2007-03-19

This is a great way to get all the original Japanese versions of the ring, in some way there is a lack of bonus materials, but after seeing the movies somehow you don't need it. That's why a give 4 stars to the set. I will not go in details about each movie, because there are so many reviews around.If you are a fan of this genre and of Japan culture /cinema is a great adition to any dvd colection.

Ringu ANTHOLOGY.......2007-02-21

The set is a good one to have.

It includes the forgotten sequel Rasen, which is the weakest movie in this viewer's opinion but still interesting to watch.

The order I suggest watching them in is Ringu, Ringu 2, Ringu 0, and then Rasen.

All four movies are a good watch overall and Sadako is creepier and scarier than portrayed in the american remakes, however I prefer the first Ring remake compared to the original Ringu as a more enjoyable watch.

The full circle of "Ringu".......2006-12-20

This DVD set is very great to watch! I love the Japanese movies. I really love all of the movies on this DVD set. These are very good movies! Every movie on this set is very good. I love it.

doesn't connect the dots.......2006-01-21

Three films, Ring 0, Ringu & Ringu 2 and Rasan (the original Ringu 2 was not given official sequal status because it was such a departure from the first film). All four are watchable, Ringu & Ring 2 may be the better but Rasan is the direct sequal and tells the fate of the surviving characters of Ringu. The real let down is Ring 0 wich really leaves us more confused about events, not enlightened. Each is entertaining, but they don't fit together they way they should.

I would have to say this is a fascinating series.......2006-01-07

For years I've watched American horror movies. From a teen to an adult, I've probably seen it all...from stalker to slasher, from aliens in outer space to boogeymen in closets. So. With that in mind. I've become tiresome with American horror films. It seems the new wave in horror films are nothing more than fake snuff films, i.e., Hostel, Saw 1 and 2, Wolf Creek. As someone who has a undergrad degree in world history, I've read enough about torture from Romans to the Nazis. I really dont want to sit in a theater or watch at home for 90 some minutes film that has no real plot, just victims to torture (basically American films today are upping the anti on the age old Jasonish vs. teens films). I realize the films are not real, but, torture like that does happen in the world, and I dont want to watch torture just for torture sake. I want a bit of mystery, a bit of horror, a bit of dreamlike phantasmagoria. That is why I have fallen in love with Asian horror movies like the Ringu series. The Ringu series, along with other Asian horror films like Audition (which yes has torture in it, but it is woven into the greater plot, not the full focus of the plot like Hostel), are captivating in how well the stories are constructed. You aren't sure what is going on, but slowly, surely, you find yourself drowning in the murky uncertainty of the lines between reality and dreams, as with the haunting and stalking of Sadako. These films are intelligent, they are scary, and they have a great deal of imagination involved in full focus. I highly suggest these films if you are tired of the remakes, the torture, the painfully dullminded American horror movies that are being pumped out in theaters today.

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Oh, The Agony!...
"You're going to be the slickest chick at that ever lovin' hop!"
I fell in to a lousy Ring of Terror

Ring of Terror
Starring: George E. Mather , Austin Green , Esther Furst , Norman Ollestad , and Lomax Study
Director: Clark L. Paylow
Manufacturer: Alpha Video
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ASIN: B000098ZTE
Release Date: 2003-06-24

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Oh, The Agony!..........2006-09-14

I sat through this hunk of brown, stinky matter so that others won't have to. Whewee! This is not good at all, folks! Where to begin? We've got college "kids" who look more like aging business associates, botched attempts at "humor" that fall so hard and so flat you can feel the impact, "fright" scenes that inspire only drowsiness, and an overall story that could cause the most boring person on earth to scream in anguish. The "plot" has been explained elsewhere, so I'll just tell you about my experience w/ this movie. I nearly hurled myself headlong down 3 flights of stairs after it's conclusion! This thing is dangerous! It should be burned, it's ashes sealed in concrete, then encased in lead! Please, stop right now and reconsider this purchase!...

"You're going to be the slickest chick at that ever lovin' hop!".......2005-07-05

The title of this film, Ring of Terror (1962) conjured up, in my mind, images of a cult of no-goodniks doing nasty things for nefarious purposes...but that wasn't the case...turns out the title was more literal, at least partly. There is a ring, but very little in the form of terror. Directed by Clark L. Paylow, whose primary credits include assistant director on films like Muscle Beach Party (1964), The Time Travelers (1964), and The Silencers (1966), the film stars George E. Mather, who would later work in the capacity of production supervisor: / miniature and optical effects unit on a little film you might have heard of called Star Wars (1977). Also appearing is...well, a bunch of people you've never heard of unless you're related to one of them, so what's the point?

The film opens on a slow pan into a graveyard, to which we find ourselves at the door of the custodian. As we enter his office, noticing the tasteful skull lamp on his desk, he proceeds to impart a bunch of flowery hooey about life and death, talking on about how each marker in the graveyard holds any number of stories...to which he goes outside, looking for his damnable cat (which he ends up accidentally stepping on...smooth move, Ex-Lax), and he comes across a particular headstone, to which begins the story of Lewis B. Moffitt. Apparently Louis is a freshman at college, but you wouldn't know it because the guy looks to be in his mid 30's, as do many of his peers (check out all the receding hairlines)...anyway, Louis, who is studying to be a doctor, is regarded by his classmates as kinda weird, primarily due to the fact that very little seems to frighten him, which he regards as an asset for someone going into the medical profession due to the very real possibility of having to work around blood, corpses, and other gross junk that would give most the rest of us the heebie jeebies...this is illustrated early on as Louis and Betty are necking in her car, and a rattlesnake slithers in the open door...Louis manages to use a stick to remove it, and then proceeds to stomp a rubber snake to death...without even breaking a sweat...see how fearless he is? But there is one thing Louis fears, something that inadvertently comes into play during Louis' fraternity initiation assignment...

Have any of you ever seen that SCTV skit with Joe Flaherty as Count Floyd? The gist was he was a host of a show that would present scary films (phony films made up by the cast of SCTV), with the running gag being none of the films he was given were ever scary, no matter how much he tried to play them up...Ring of Terror would have been a perfect film to have been used in that skit. I've heard this film was featured in an episode of Mystery Science 3000, but I have not seen it, although I can see the riffing possibilities that lie within. For the first half hour of the film I really had little notion where the story was going...I knew things were being set up, but the actual plot kept getting waylaid with completely unrelated, often moronic sequences...here's a perfect example...near the beginning Louis and his girlfriend Betty go to the cafeteria where we're treated to a innocuous ditty played by the `Ye Campus Cool Cats' (they aren't even playing...listen as the sax music comes in, and then a few minutes later the guys holding the saxophones actually begin to pretend to play) along with some comic scenes involving a heavy set couple (the guy is named `Tiny'...har har..get it?) surrounded by empty fountain drink glasses...and the fun doesn't stop there...they get up and dance (they're actually pretty good), while their classmates laugh, you know, because the sight of dancing fat people is a riot, Alice ...and then during the class autopsy (the John Doe corpse sporting a gold ring, which comes into play later in the story), guess whose the first guy to pass out (not once, not twice, but three times)? If you guessed Tiny, you'd be right...oh, and then there's the school/frat Bacchanalian Festival, featuring a beauty contest with all the girls in swimsuits, including Tiny's rotund girlfriend...and get this, Tiny just happens to be one of three on the judging committee (I sense a conflict of interests), the other two being professors. Guess whom Tiny votes for? To which one of the professors asks incredulously, "Are you kidding?!" And be sure not to miss Tiny and his big boned girlfriend ravaging the hotdog cart like a couple of voracious jackals...oh stop it, you're killing me with laughter...during the festival the frat guys pass out the assignments to the pledges, an example being making the nerdlinger pledge dress up like cupid, complete with bow and arrow, and scour the nearby shrubs for couple making out...and when he finds one, he's supposed to kiss the girl on the lips...this was probably the most horrifying bit of the film, a grown man sneaking around in his underpants spying on couples getting it on (were hazing rituals this lame back in the day?)...and then, when we finally get to the end, the payoff, so to speak, its pretty disappointing, especially since you already know the end result, given to us at the very beginning. Basically what you got here is 10 minutes of actual story in a 72-minute film, the rest consisting of pointless filler. The acting wasn't all that bad, and neither was the direction, but there just wasn't anything here to justify a movie, especially not the 10 minutes of actual story.

This Alpha DVD release features a full screen presentation that starts off looking rough and murky, but gets a little better as the film goes on, and the audio is reasonably clear. In terms of special features, there's a rough looking trailer, along with the standard Alpha catalog listing showing the DVD covers of a great number of releases.

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I fell in to a lousy Ring of Terror.......2004-12-22

It's always a bad sign when some pseudo-spooky old character is called upon to introduce a given horror film to the audience - it's not as if viewers need to prepare themselves for the all-consuming thrills that Ring of Terror waits to unleash upon them. You will spot a ring here, but terror is definitely a no-show. Ring of Terror is the story of Lewis Moffett, the world's oldest 22-year-old medical student, a man who stands out among his equally ancient fellow students for his oddly prominent fearless nature. He's not afraid of anything, supposedly, and even his girlfriend worries that his fearlessness will lead him to a bad end. We meet the gang of forty-ish kids as they anxiously await their first autopsy viewing and get ready for their fraternity initiations. Moffett gets through the autopsy like an old pro, even volunteering to wheel the dead body into the classroom. Naturally, the frat elders decide to test young Moffett's bravery in the form of his initiation assignment - and they just so happen to hit on the one thing that terrifies him. That's about it. A comic book could have taken care of this story in about two pages, but director Clark L. Paylow manages to milk this insignificant, easily predictable plot into seventy-one minutes of wasted celluloid. Part of the useless padding consists of a degrading look at an overweight couple eating everything in sight and then going out of their way to make everyone laugh at them.

You wouldn't know this film was made in 1962 by looking at it - it looks more like the low-quality serials made in the early days of cinema with its dark print and horrible sound quality. It stars no one you've ever heard of, fails to work up even the notion of actual fright, and ends rather cheesily. This could have been a decent story (it was supposedly based on a true story, but I'll need to see some documentation before I buy into that claim) - if only it had been made as a short feature included in a group of comics-style horror tales. As a standalone product, Ring of Terror just doesn't deliver the goods.

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A horror movie with some bullfight subplot.Don Guillermo blames writer for his son's death in the bullring. The unlucky writer stumbles into his trap. Letterboxed in a square format to have the feel of the old classic films of the 1920s and early 30s.

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{6 Classic Scary Movies} Spooks Run Wild / Ring of Terror / the Ghost / Night of the Living Dead / the Snake People / Nosferatu (Special Collector's Edition) (Digitally Remastered)

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{6 Classic Scary Movies} Spooks Run Wild / Ring of Terror / the Ghost / Night of the Living Dead / the Snake People / Nosferatu (Special Collector's Edition) (Digitally Remastered)

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