Suggested age16+

The movie is very scary with intense sounds, a rapidly decomposing face, spontaneous nosebleeds, and a girl emerging from a television set. Four people and a horse die on-screen, including a suicide by electric cords and a woman throwing a child down a well.

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The Ring

The Ring

Movie (2002)

Before you die, you see

Journalist Rachel Keller investigates a strange videotape that may be behind the untimely deaths of four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring in order to save herself and her son.

Horror
Mystery
115 minutes
Released

What to expect

The movie is very scary with intense sounds, a rapidly decomposing face, spontaneous nosebleeds, and a girl emerging from a television set. Four people and a horse die on-screen, including a suicide by electric cords and a woman throwing a child down a well.

The good stuff

Parents treated their difficult daughter badly leading to her death and supernatural revenge, while a mother frantically searches to save her son.

Family guidance

Ages 16+

The movie is very scary with intense sounds, a rapidly decomposing face, spontaneous nosebleeds, and a girl emerging from a television set. Four people and a horse die on-screen, including a suicide by electric cords and a woman throwing a child down a well.

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Sex & Nudity

A teen mentions staying at a cabin with her boyfriend, a woman is seen in a bra and underpants, and a character wears a wet T-shirt.

Violence & Gore

Four people and a horse die on-screen, including a suicide by electric cords and a woman throwing a child down a well.

Profanity

Profanity includes s--t, prick, bitch, and damn.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

Teenagers and adults smoke cigarettes, and Vicodin is mentioned.

Frightening Scenes

The movie is very scary with intense sounds, a rapidly decomposing face, spontaneous nosebleeds, and a girl emerging from a television set.

Positives & learning

Role models

Parents treated their difficult daughter badly leading to her death and supernatural revenge, while a mother frantically searches to save her son.

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