10 Awesome Horror Movie Villains With Stupid One Weakness
4. The Ring Girl Probably Doesn't Transfer To Blu-Ray
The Ring, or Ringu in Japan, is a gorgeous film to look at. Say what you will about director Gore Verbinski's work - including The Pirates of the Carribean franchise - he has a great eye and a wonderful sense of atmosphere.
The film focuses on an urban legend about a VHS tape that features a series of creepy incoherent images that, after viewing, calls the watcher and alerts them that they will die in seven days. The tape is certainly full of frightening imagery - like a David Lynch short without a narrative. It's up to Naomi Watts, a journalist to uncover the clues on the tape before her time is is up.
Alas, it turns out a young girl with psychic abilities she could not control was abandoned and tortured, leaving her soul embedded in the strips of the tape. The only way to survive a screening of the film is to make a duplicate copy and pass it on. One could do so as vengeance, giving it to someone they dislike, or they could simply slip the copy at a video store in place of a copy of Ishtar.
But her Samara - the evil girl - is embedded in an outdated format, and it's much more difficult to bootleg blu-rays. Most people don't even own VHS players anymore, rendering her largely obsolete.