The Ring was a freaky show for me. Mind you, watching it just before a summer storm hit added to the freakiness...
I was watching the movie with my teenaged son and just as the movie ended, my room mate arrived home. We saw my room mate's truck move into the designated parking space, and as we saw her (roomie) cross the front yard to get to the door, movie credits rolling, eerie music playing, the phone started ringing...
(My roomie left work early to get home ahead of the storm because she had heard a storm warning over the radio but the storm was just starting to 'pick up,' and had darkened the mid afternoon skies already...)
As my roomie turned her key and opened the door, the phone had rang about three times and my son, who was still more than a little shaken by the movie, said, "Nobody is going to answer that phone..."
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...so my roomie opens the door to my son standing halfway between the door and phone, with a look of terror on his face...
"Hey, someone answer the darned phone, I can hear the phone ringing..." she says as she walks in...
"Nope, that will not be happening, Sandy! NOBODY ANSWERS THAT PHONE!" my son replies - with very little tact and a great deal of "squeak" and excitement in his teenaged voice.
...and then the power goes out, the phone stops ringing and we're all standing in the apartment about 3 feet away from each other - the afternoon made dark in a matter of about 5 minutes (the last 5 minutes of the film).
Spoooooooooky!
Anyway, Sandy (not her real name) gave my son and I heck 'cos we watched The Ring first out of a stack of movies we were all going to have some quality time with. Sandy didn't end up WANTING to watch The Ring after her strange welcome home.
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I have not had the desire to watch that movie again since I watched it with my son, although many people have rented and invited me to watch it with them. (Yes, my son got rid of the 'creepy' feeling the movie left with him - but it took 10 or 15 minutes for him to figure out the ending and let it sink in, then move on to other things.)
The movie ending, storm, phone ringing, and room mate's arrival all at the same time was an unlikely set of coincidences that made The Ring pretty darned spooky, indeed!
Go figure!