The Ring Virus (1999)
Directed by Kim Dong-bin
Sun-ju is a reporter who uncovers a series of inexplicable deaths that occurred simultaneously. Her investigation leads her to a resort, where she finds a videotape filled with mysterious images. After viewing it, a message appears on the screen that she has just been cursed, and that in order to save herself she must - end of tape. Somebody has erased the rest, leaving her horrified and uncertain of her next move.
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What critics compared The Ring Virus to
J-horror, or Japanese horror, impacted the genre on a massive scale after titles such as 1998’s Ring and 2002’s Ju-On: The Grudge haunted audiences.
The films follow the basic idea of Ring (Hideo Nakata, 1998) i.e. there’s a curse which causes you to die horribly in a week unless you do whatever it is you have to do to break that curse.
Si l’influence du maître de l’horreur est manifeste, on peut également rapprocher le long-métrage de It Follows (Mitchell, 2014) par son ambiance vaporeuse et son concept, ou encore du japonais Ring (Nakata, 1998) pour sa malédiction dont les protagonistes cherchent à se débarrasser.
Some of the movements of the female demons owes much to the extreme, performance-based movements of Sadako, the otherworldly protagonist of Japan’s Ring franchise (Hideo Nakata et al, 1998 onwards).