#93: The Ring (2002)

<p>Your niece dies, you see a spooky video, and your kid won’t stop calling you by your first name…WELL, you better make the best of it.  There’s a lot to this one but hold your horses, it won’t take us seven days to get to the end of 2002’s creepy text chain personified, The Ring.</p> <p><br></p> <p>***CONTENT WARNING: abuse, suicide, animal cruelty</p> <p><br></p> <p>Follow us on Instagram at @thewhorrorspodcast</p> <p>Email us at <a href="mailto:thewhorrorspodcast@gmail.com">thewhorrorspodcast@gmail.com</a></p> <p>Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula (<a href="mailto:gabrielle@gabriellefatula.com">gabrielle@gabriellefatula.com</a>)</p> <p>Music: Epic Industrial Music Trailer by SeverMusicProd</p> <p>Standard Music License </p> <p><br></p> <p>Works Referenced:</p> <ul> <li><p>The Ring Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ring_(2002_film) </p> </li> <li><p>The Ring IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298130/ </p> </li> <li><p>“The Full Story of The Ring Franchise”: https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/features/803373-ring-franchise-movies </p> </li> <li><p>“The Ring: Why The American Remake Cut 50 Percent Of The Original Story”</p> </li> <li><p>https://screenrant.com/ring-movie-gore-verbinski-changes-original-movie-explained/#:~:text=In%20the%20American%20version%2C%20when,layered%20mystery%20and%20psychic%20phenomena</p> </li> <li><p>“Okiku’s Ghost: The True Scary Story that Inspired ‘The Ring’”:</p> </li> <li><p>https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3421393/okikus-ghost-true-scary-story-inspired-ring/ </p> </li> <li><p>Balanzategui, Jessica. The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema : Ghosts of Futurity at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century. Amsterdam University Press, 2018, https://doi.org/10.5117/9789462986510.</p> </li> </ul>