Episode 98: Ring (Ringu)

Watch If You Dare

Film Reviews, Tv & Film, Film History

5.0 • 548 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 136 minutes

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The Season of Spoop about "cursed object" horror films continues with Aaron and Derek discussing Japanese supernatural horror movie "Ring (Ringu)" directed by Hideo Nakata and based on the 1991 novel by Koji Suzuki. They discuss its impact on imported horror, the quality compared to the American remake, the blend of modern media with folklore, how Japanese stories and mythology influenced the story, among many other aspects of the movie. They also talk about the film and book franchise as a whole. Aaron has 7 days. Derek put a curse on him.We are on PodBean, Apple Podcasts, Podchaser, Goodpods, Amazon Music, Google, Stitcher, Spotify, and CastBox. Please rate, review, subscribe, and share our show. Also, check out our Spotify Music playlist, links on our Twitter and Podbean page. Our socials are on Facebook and Twitter @WatchIfYouDare

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0:00.0	Welcome to the season of
0:08.0	Two Hey, Aaron, before we record, did you get that video I sent you?
0:31.1	Yeah, hold on. I'll open it.
0:33.2	Yeah, open it up.
0:54.9	What the fuck? This is just the Halloween 3 Silver Sharerock thing? Yeah, just keep watching it. Just watch it all the way. Dude, I've seen this a thousand times. I don't need to watch this again. Come on, when do you get going? There's something special specifically about this video. I watched it about seven days ago. And let's just say's just say you've been cursed, asshole. So, uh, yeah, you're gonna need to do something about that, or your head
1:00.1	is gonna turn into bugs in seven days. What? Yeah, you just watch curse video. Wait, you just put a curse
1:05.8	on me? Yeah. God damn it. It's Eric. You can fix it pretty easily just show it to somebody within seven days. This is like a third time, dude. I told you to quit doing this. God damn. All right, fine. Are you still seeing that asshole with the towel on his head pointing at stuff around your room? Yeah. God damn it. I'll send it to somebody. It's fine. Whatever. Let's get going. All right, welcome, guys, to another spooktacular episode of Watch If You Dare.
1:33.1	A cursed season of spooop.
1:35.0	Curse season of spoop, where we're dealing with cursed objects, and, you know, this
1:38.9	unfortunately happens every once in a while, just, you know, got to figure out what the
1:43.4	cure is, but we'll deal with that
1:44.7	later oh shit what's that girl with the long black hair standing behind you erin oh jesus
1:48.8	oh no the curse hasn't been lifted oh shit yeah so for any first time listeners which why are you
1:55.7	tuning in this late welcome to another episode of watch if you, a horror movie podcast hosted by me,
2:01.4	your movie monster boy, Aaron, and my cowardly co-host, Derek, in which we discuss fears,
2:06.5	phobias, and themes of horror movies across all ages, subgenres, categories, et cetera,
2:13.2	and discuss just how relevant they are to today's watchers and for horror newbies.
2:18.8	So cool.
2:19.9	This is our second Buhn episode of Season of Spoop in which we are covering cursed objects.
2:28.5	So we started with Christine in which we discussed a movie about a cursed killer car.
2:36.5	Now we are going to be discussing Ringu from 1998, which is all about a cursed VHS tape. So, fun times. We're going to really
2:45.8	show our age with this episode, because I don't know if we'll have listeners who don't know what a VHS
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