the ring
... over and puts her face right next to the television. Suddenly there's a noise from the kitchen. Katie gasps and turns around. Slowly, she peeks into the kitchen, just in time to see the refrigerator door open by it. She runs to shut it, now breathing heavily. She mutters to herself and begins looking around with a very subtle panic on her face. Katie appears, peeking around the corner. She calls for her friend Becca. She trots up the stairs. As Katie reaches the top of the stairs, water slowly flows into the hall from beneath a door. She's scared and bewildered, then trembling. She grabs the handle, opens the door and the television is all static and kills Katie. The ring is about a young journalist who must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone in a week of viewing it, The videotape contains the captured images of a nightmare. If it is watched, the person will receive a phone call from an unknown id informing you that in exactly seven days death will strike. When the seventh day would come the television closest to the person would turn on and the pictures would look like an “O”. The protagonist (Rachael) niece has died from watching this tape and Rachael now wants to investigate this mystery. After her niece and three of her niece's friends mysteriously die on the same night, at the same time, but in different circumstances, reporter Rachel, hears the rumors of a video that when seen, "curses" the viewer so that they die in 7 days. Rachael finds the tape and watches it giving her only seven days to find a way to make it stop. Aiden (Rachael’s child) is usually warned by psychic prediction and Noah (Rachael’s ex) helps Rachael to unravel a tale of absolute terror and a legacy of evil that threatens to destroy not only themselves, but everyone that sees “The ring”. Towards the end they discover that making a copy of the tape can save a life. Rachael, Noah, and Aiden all survive by copying the tape. Watching the tape, they realized that samara (the creator of the tape) only w...