[Lycanthe]

This is especially for downside, but also for those who apparently didn't understand the story of "The Ring".

First of all, it makes no sense to be too disappointed if a horror movie doesn't work for you; people are different, and the path, if you will, to the part of each person that generates fear is different and all movies aren't going to get there. Maybe this was the case with you and the Ring. You have to pay attention to THE STORY in order to get this, and not just sit there hoping something scares you.

Here's the story in a nutshell.
Samara was the result of some subhuman fertility deal and as a result she had the ability to transmit her thoughts and some images into the minds of others as well as onto certain types of media, like photographic film and , yes, videotape. Her father didn't want her, and (I'm just guessing here) that conflict drove her mother crazy. When mommy went to the nuthouse, daddy stashed her in the horsebarn, alone. At some point her mother came back, killed Samara, then killed herself. In a combination of anger and malice, Samara, who apparently had some part of her mind or whatever survive after her body died, decided to put her story onto videotape, presumably because she wanted others to know what happened to her. Some evil part of her would come and "get" anyone who didn't make and distribute a copy of the tape so others would not only witness her story but have to make more copies or die.

Personally, I found it to be one of the creepiest movies I have ever seen. If you didn't , it's because the story just didn't reach you, not because it was a bad movie. None of the "nutcase-in-a-mask-with-a-knife-chasing-stupid-teenagers" movies are scary to me, but that doesn't mean some of them weren't good stories...they just weren't horror to me. To each his own.