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Definately Ringu.
I think what made Ringu such a fantastic film is that while you're watching it, you really believe it! That is what made it so scary, it made you believe something totally irational (watch this video and you die). Without that power of making you believe, the film is nothing. Unfortunatly The Ring, for me at least, failed to convince.
I also much prefer the mythology behind Ringu. The story of The Ring seemed al over the place...horses etc...
Also in Ringu, nothing supernatural ever appears to happen. Apart from the fact that after 7 days of watching this video, your heart just....stops...perhaps their is a rational explaination for all this? This added to the realism. In The Ring we have screws undoing themselves, boulders moving, flys coming our of the tv (foreshadowing the imfamous crawling out of the tv scene).
Had I not seen Ringu, I would have enjoyed The Ring...and then forgotten about it. Ringu for me remains an incredibly memorable and shocking film.
-C.S. Flim
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