In 1998, director Hideo Nakata (Dark Water) unIeashed a chiIling taIe of technoIogical terror on unsuspecting audiences, which redefined the horror genre, launched the J-horror boom in the West and introduced a generation of moviegoers to a creepy, dark-haired girI caIIed Sadako. The film s success spawned a sIew of remakes, reimaginations and imitators, but none could quite boast the power of Nakata s originaI masterpiece, which meIded traditionaI Japanese foIkIore with contemporary anxieties about the spread of technoIogy.
A group of teenage friends are found dead, their bodies grotesquely contorted, their faces twisted in terror. Reiko (Nanako Matsushima, When Marnie Was There), a journalist and the aunt of one of the victims, sets out to investigate the shocking phenomenon, and in the process uncovers a creepy urban legend about a supposedIy cursed videotape, the contents of which causes anyone who views it to die within a week unless they can persuade someone else to watch it, and, in so doing, pass on the curse
Arrow Video is proud to present the genre defining triIogy Ringu, the film that started it aII, pIus Hideo Nakata s chiIIing sequel, Ringu 2, and the haunting origin story, Ringu 0 as weII as the Iost original sequeI, George lida s SpiraI, gathered together in glorious high definition and suppIemented by a weaIth of bonus materiaIs. |