Sunday, April 26, 2009

THE RING VIRUS


The Ring Virus is a 1999 South Korean horror film directed by Dong-bin Kim, and starring Eun-Kyung Shin, Seung-hyeon Lee, Jin-yeong Jeong, and Du-na Bae. The movie is the Korean adaptation of Koji Suzuki's 1991 novel, Ring.

Sun-ju is a reporter who, after the mysterious death of her niece and other three teenagers on the same hour and with the symptoms of heart attack, decides to uncover the series of inexplicable deaths. Her investigation takes her to a resort, where she finds a videotape filled with mysterious images and a strange message. After watching the film, Sun-ju finds that the message that appears on the screen is incomplete, but somehow she knows that she has just been cursed too. Later on, she finds out that in order to save herself she must find the origins of the videotape to end with the curse. Things become yet more awkward after Sun-ju's little daughter watches the movie; then, Sun-ju has a stronger reason to untangle the mystery and save her daughter and herself.

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