FILM 2237: THE RING (2002)
FILM 2237: THE RING (2002)
TRIVIA: The "cursed" video is available as an easter egg on the DVD. Select look here and press down and your cursor will disappear. Press Enter. This has an interesting feature; your remote control is disabled. Once the "video" has started playing, you can't stop it, pause it, fast-forward it, or return to the menu. Unless you turn off the TV, you're forced to watch the whole thing. When it's over, the DVD returns to the menu, then you hear a phone ring twice before you're given control over your remote again.
Long before the movie premiered, the killer video was used as a commercial. The commercial did not mention any movie for nearly a month.
On its first week of release in the U.S. and Canada, select cinemas put actual copies of the cursed tape on seats for unsuspecting viewers as freebies. The cursed video is now available as an Easter egg feature on the DVD.
The tree with the fiery red leaves featured in the movie is a Japanese maple. The fruit of this tree is known as a "samara."
Until Stephen King's It (2017), this movie was the highest-grossing horror remake in history, with a total worldwide gross of over US $249 million.
There are no title cards or opening credits to the movie, although there is a flash of "the ring" during the Dreamworks logo.
In both the American and Japanese versions, the name of the little girl is connected to a story about death. The name "Samara" refers to a story retold by W. Somerset Maughamas "Appointment in Samarra", about a man who meets Death in the marketplace and flees to the town of Samarra.
Producer Neal Edelstein offered the remake to David Lynch to direct, but he turned it down.
First collaboration between director Gore Verbinski and composer Hans Zimmer. Ever since then, Zimmer has composed the music for every Verbinski-directed film, except A Cure for Wellness (2016). Even though Zimmer is only credited as music producer for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), he did actually compose the main themes for that film.
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