Its most famous image, of a medusa-like wraith, long black hair obscuring her face as she crawls, then shambles, toward the camera, getting fearfully closer and closer to her terrified victim and to us, has become iconic, a figure that stands in for an entire subgenre of cinema.[…]
Technology—and as a result, time—moves so fast now that Ringu, with its scenes of people agonizing over the images of a video plagued with bad tracking, already feels pleasantly aged, offering the air of a classic MR James story of curious book scholars poring over musty, cursed texts in gloomily lit church sacristies.
— Michael Koresky (Reverse Shot)
Synopsis: A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.