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[[File:the_ring.jpg|frame|When they said [[Donnie Darko]]'s sister was going to come out of my TV, this isn't [[Maggie Gyllenhaal|what I had in mind]].]]▼
{{quote|''Everyone will suffer.''}}
{{color|white|You have arrived to a cursed wiki page. The one who reads it is destined to die in seven days, unless doing what we say. What you must do to avoid a grisly fate is—}}
▲[[File:the_ring.jpg|frame|When they said [[Donnie Darko]]'s sister was going to come out of my TV, this isn't [[Maggie Gyllenhaal|what I had in mind]].]]
See? This is why most evil beings avoid wiki death curses. Someone just deletes them and wham, you can't kill anybody.
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Death [[Curse|curses]] on videotapes are tougher, though. People don't usually ''delete'' videotapes; they tape over them, which is not likely to wipe out any death curses. And when the time delay between watching the tape and being affected by the curse is longer than the typical rental period for videotapes, you have to be a perceptive, determined, or paranoid person to even realize that you have watched a cursed videotape with an active curse. Or that someone you love has watched one.
'''''Ring''''' is a novel by Koji Suzuki about a [[Haunted Technology|cursed videotape]] that [[Brown Note|kills anyone who watches it]] in seven days. Kazuyuki Asakawa, a journalist at a major Tokyo newspaper, discovers the cursed videotape when his niece and three of her friends fall victim to it, and he traces the origin back to a resort cabin they shared, there he finds and watches the tape, and suddenly has a seven day deadline to figure out how to survive its deadly curse.
The novel may have been inspired by two M. R. James ghost stories; notably 'The Mezzotint' and another one, 'Martin's Close', about a murdered girl in a lake who returns to wreak vengeance from beyond the grave. Physical appearance of the baleful spirit closely resembles an [[Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl|onryo]], a traditional Japanese type of ghost on which [[The Other Wiki]] has more [[wikipedia:Onryo|here]].
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Also, some books on psychic phenomena mention a Japanese woman (first name Shizuko) who performed 'spirit photography' on stage in the early 20th century.
The novel has been adapted to film three times in Japan, America, and Korea (In all three theatrical film adaptations the main character is changed from a man to a woman) with varying levels of success. The Korean film is the closest to the book. There was also an obscure Japanese TV movie which was touted as the actual most accurate adaptation, a TV series, a radio drama, and
Sequels and prequels to both the novel and movies exist, and follow wildly divergent continuities from one another.
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* ''Spiral''
* ''Loop''
* ''Birthday'' (Short story collection; including a prequel to ''Ring'', a [[POV Sequel]] to ''Spiral'' and a sequel to ''Loop'')
* ''[[Trilogy Creep|S]]''
* ''Tide''
'''The Japanese movies:'''
* ''[[Ringu|Ring]]''
* ''Ring 2''
* ''Ring 0: Birthday''
* ''Rasen'' (aka ''Spiral'', not to be confused with ''[[Uzumaki]]'')
* ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1844025/ Sadako 3D]''
* ''Sadako 3D 2''
* ''Sadako vs Kayako'' (a crossover with ''[[Ju-On]]'')
* ''Sadako'' (2019)
* ''Ringu: Jiko ka! Henshi ka! Yottsu no inochi o ubau shôjo no onnen'', also known as ''Ringu: Kazenban'' –
'''The American movies:'''
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* ''The Ring Virus''
'''The
* ''Ring: The Final Chapter'' (1999)
* ''The Ring: Terror's Realm'' (Released for the [[Sega Dreamcast]]; officially has no place in any canon continuity.)▼
'''The video games:'''
▲* ''The Ring: Terror's Realm'' (Released for the [[Sega Dreamcast]]; officially has no place in any canon continuity.)
* ''Ring: Infinity'' (a visual novel released for the [[Wonder Swan]])
'''Related works:'''
* ''[[Kimi ni Todoke]]'' (The female lead is supposed to be an [[Expy]] of the scary girl.)
* ''[[Mysterious Girlfriend X]]'' (The female lead is based on Sadako, but is more [[Strange Girl|strange]] than scary.)
▲* ''Ringu: Jiko ka! Henshi ka! Yottsu no inochi o ubau shôjo no onnen'' (A TV adaptation made by Fuji Network 3 years before the more well-known film. Notable for keeping Asakawa male, and for casting a softcore porn actress as Sadako and having her frequently get naked.)
Not to be confused with [[the Ring Cycle]].
{{tropelist|This <s>curse</s> film and novel series provides examples of:}}▼
* [[Abusive Parents]]: In the American remake, where {{spoiler|Samara's uncontrollable power ostracized her to her own parents (who eventually killed her because of them.)}}
** Averted in the Japanese films - the first two films would have you believe that Dr. Ikuma threw Sadako down the well out of malice. In fact, ''Ring 0'' reveals that {{spoiler|he did it as a last, desperate resort to stop her evil powers. He is extremely reluctant to do it, and he immediately breaks down sobbing after he pushes her in}}.
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