The year is 1998 and

Hold on. Oh, hello. Hey Amy, just want to tell you that at the end of this podcast you're gonna be like totally die. Bye

Oh, I'm gonna get to the bottom of this and figure that out nightmare the movie the ring. Hello everyone and welcome to us

on Spoold. I'm Amy Nicholson and I am Paul Sheer in this is the podcast where we are trying to find the hundred best movies of all time and when we do we're sending them to outer space. This is the end of our horror month and we are wrapping it up with a Japanese horror cult classic that became international phenomenon. Ringoo and Amy I'm excited to talk about this movie because this is a movie that I

feel like I first was really connected to through pop culture like stuff like scary movie and literally prank shows that recreated the scariest scene of this movie. For fun as if we all knew this thing like this is the thing like this is our mic Myers. This is our our

Freddie or Jason yeah I feel like ring you at least in my own personal experience for that is a movie that crept up on me without me getting to see it I was aware of what was happening for a very long time before anybody in America is a lot of watch this movie.

Yeah, it was kind of one of those things that the way like an urban legend travels like we you hear about it and so you're excited to see it like the concept isn't new.

But it is interesting to watch because I do think that this movie.

Does something to horror that then sets off a chain of events that I think changes horror gets us out of the slasher film and into something that is a little bit more grounded and a little bit more emotional internal and I think you can draw a real comparison to this film and Blair which and we'll get into a lot of that in this episode but really I think at the end of the day the question will be.

Is it good is it scary or is the premise just interesting I am excited to turn to this with you because honestly I think so I'll go make him after me.

Shall we let's unspool it.

The year is 1998 and Microsoft becomes the biggest company in the world valued at 261 billion dollars which ultimately leads away for Steve bomber to buy the clippers but we can get into that later.

Good Friday agreements are reached between the UK Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland and this is the year that Bill Clinton coined the famous phrase.

I did not have sexual relations with that woman.

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Happened this year my God the apple I'm back so beautiful and Viagra.

Oh wow put that all together that's a party the hot films of the year are good will hunting Armageddon saving private Ryan belayed and today's film ringu Amy.

Who's in it what's it about and what was on the radio in 1998.

Ringo it is directed by Hideo Nakata it is written by Hiroshi Takahashi from the 1997 novel by Koji Suzuki that was already very very well known in Japan by the time this film came out.

It is the story of a cursed videotape first you watch the tape then you get a mysterious phone call then seven days later you die.

How and from what and why these are the questions that drive a journalist named Raco when she begins to investigate a string of two coincidental teen deaths.

Questions that become personal to her when she watches the tape then her ex husband watches the tape and then their young son watches the tape.

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