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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.''}}
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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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* ''[[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.)
Not to be confused with [[the Ring Cycle]].
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* [[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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