The enthusiasm around J-horror remakes may have been short-lived, but the core of what made The Ring so frightening in 2002 and what made the novel and original film such disturbing portraits of societal collapse in '90s Japan is the transferable nature of the death sentence, which makes even the victims ...
It's still just as scary now as it was when it was released, and is the rare horror film and American remake that stands the test of time.
