The Ring was a phenomenon when it came out 19 years ago. And whether an urban legend whispered at a ’90s slumber party or a viral anecdote shared and reshared online, alluring half-truths present a certain danger when circulated. The threat at the center of the movie isn’t the technology it’s the spread of a story. As John Mulaney would say, that is a very old-fashioned sentence.īut while audiences today have little to fear from a ghost that travels by VHS and kills by landline, the terrors in Gore Verbinski’s modern classic are oddly resonant. The 2002 horror film The Ring can be summarized in a delightfully analog fashion: After finding a VHS tape and receiving a phone call, a local newspaper reporter searches library archives to solve a mystery.
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