Moderately so — The Ring mixes scares with other modes. As a supernatural film, it scored 7.0/10 for fear, 8.0/10 for atmosphere, and 6.6/10 overall on Watch Darkly's curator scale across 1 rating.

How many jump scares are in The Ring?

The Ring has 9 jump scares, based on Watch Darkly's per-film jump-scare count.

What are some films like The Ring?

The Ring is tagged as supernatural on Watch Darkly. The film's page lists similar horror films selected by curated scoring across fear, gore, atmosphere, and overall quality.

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The Ring

2002 · PG-13 · 1h 55m

Before you die, you see

Journalist Rachel Keller investigates a strange videotape that may be behind the untimely deaths of four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring in order to save herself and her son.

Plot summary via TMDB

Curator Score

6.6

Overall

Based on 1 curator rating

Built on atmosphere, light on gore.

Jump scares

The Ring has 9 jump scares. Compare counts

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6.6Overall

Fear7.0

Gore0.5

Atmosphere8.0

Genres

mysteryhorrorthriller

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Details

Budget$48M

Box office$249.3M

Directed by

Gore Verbinski

Written by

Ehren Kruger, Hiroshi Takahashi

Cinematography

Bojan Bazelli

Music

Hans Zimmer

Starring

Naomi Watts as Rachel Keller · Martin Henderson as Noah Clay · David Dorfman as Aidan Keller · Brian Cox as Richard Morgan · Jane Alexander as Dr. Grasnik · Lindsay Frost as Ruth Embry · Amber Tamblyn as Katie Embry · Rachael Bella as Rebecca Kotler

Production

BenderSpink, DreamWorks Pictures, Parkes+MacDonald Production