This movie is scary. So flipping scary. Go out and do all the things on your bucket list because youre convinced youre going to die in seven days type-scary. So who directed it - Carpenter or Craven or some other horror maestro? Nope, it was Gore Verbinski. Before The Ring he had made two movies - The Mexican and Mousehunt. Afterwards he made a few Pirates Of The Caribbean movies and some other Johnny Depp four-quadrant vehicles. So how did he successfully create one of the scariest movies of the 2000s? And not just create, but adapt from a beloved Japanese original, which would prove elsewhere to repeatedly result in misguided and subpar imitations? Sadly, theres no straightforward answer. He knew how to build suspense, slowly unravel a mystery, and scare the bejeesus out of slumber party-goers everywhere. The story of Naomi Watts trying to save her cursed boys life really resonated with people. So come back to horror, Gore, the genre and the audience miss you.