The Ring is a psychological horror films released in 2002. It's a remake of the 1998 japanese horror Ring of which there is also a novel. The film begins with a shot of a big house on a stormy night. There are two teeange girls names Katie and Becca who are telling eachother ghost stories about a tape they have heard of which is said to kill people after it's watched. Katie begins to panic as she says she has watched the film in the previous weekend. It is then explained that after watching the tape, the phone rings at 10pm and a voice says 'Seven days' to you, indicating that you only have 7 days to live. The phone then rings and the camera goes onto a close up shot of the clock which shows that it's 10pm. Tension is built with the use of music and a long pause as the girls go to answer the phone and as Becca answers it, she acts as if it is the voice telling her of the 7 days, but passes the phone over to Katie and it's just her mum. This is known as an eton bus (i think but I might have to check that....) which means it builds up a large amount of suspence, then nothing scary happens as a result. As Katie remains on the phone, Becca goes out of shot and Katie goes to look where she's gone. There is noises and the television turning itself on. The camera then moves to the television which shows it is turning on and off. The scene then goes to the kitchen where the background music stops and Katie sees the fridge opening. As she investigates she hears footsteps quickly going up the stairs, so she follows them thinking it is Becca, but as she gets to the top, there is a low shot of the bottom of her bedroom door with water pouring from under it, yet as she opens the door there is no water in the room. She then looks up at the television and the camera shot shows she is screaming and her face has been distorted. There are then clips from the video shown. The scene then cuts to a parents evening at a primary school where a teacher is showing a mother pictures of what her son has drawn in class.

 The images are of a dark nature which is seen to be odd for a child of his age to be drawing. It is revealed that the small boy, Aiden, was friends with Katie, and his mother, Rachel, thinks the drawings are as a result of her death, but it's revealed that the drawings were actually done a week before her death. They then return home and it is revealed that Katies time of death was 10pm. At the funeral for Katie, Rachel discusses with Katies mum that the cause of Katies death was a mystery. Her mum doesn't believe that what the doctors said her heart had just stopped beating and thinks there is more behind it. The scene then cuts to a shot of Katie in her wardrobe looking gross. Rachel then goes outside and speaks to some of Katies friend and they bring up the story about the video, and the fact that Katies boyfriend also died on the same night. Then the scene cuts to a shot of Aiden who it walking up the stairs of the house to where Katie died. He see's the television and it starts to move, but Rachel is just behind him and tells him to return downstairs, yet he stays put.

Then Rachel looks around her room a bit and see's pictures of people but their faces are blurred out, and underneath the pictures are the contact details for the place where the photos had been developed so she goes and gets some of her pictures developed and the pictures are of Katie and her friends who had been away at the weekend on a trip. The pictures seem normal, except one where all the peoples faces are blurred out. We then see a birds eye shot of a car driving, it is raining and grey, which suggests she isn't taking a nice trip. The car then reaches the destination of 'Shelter Mountain' which is the place Katie had stayed with her friends the previous weekend. Rachel goes to the reception area and asks about which cabin it was that a group of teenagers stayed at which she finds out was number 12. She also finds out they rented a video so looks at the video's that can be rented. They are all in cases except one which looks out of place so she had that one. She then goes to the cabin 12 and puts the video on. It's the same video shown snippets of earlier on in the film. The film is very hectic, atmospheric as it is in grainy black and white and uses quite stressful music. After she has finished watching it, the phone rings, and a voice says to her '7 days'.

The scene then cuts to a black screen with white writing with the words 'Thursday - Day 1'. The next scene begins and it is raining which suggests the atmosphere of the film is still gloomy. It is then shown that Rachel is taking a photo of herself, but when she looks at it, her face is distorted as it was in the pictures of Katie and her friends after they'd watched the tape. A man named Noah appears and she shows him  the tape. After Noah is shown the film the phone rings, but as Rachel knows who it'll be she lets it ring. After Noah leaves the apartment Rachel presses the button on the phone and there is a close up shot of her face looking apprehensive. We then cut to the next scene which shows that Rachel is getting a copy of the tape made, whilst she is doing the copy, the machine keeps going wrong and the numbers keep going mental she also see's that something is falling from the tree on the film. The scene then cuts to a black screen with white writing saying Friday - Day 2, on this day she thinks she begins to see things in real life that were in the video such as the ladder. The next shot shows that it is Saturday - Day 3, shown in the same style as the previous 2 days. Rachel goes to the mental hospital where Katies friend Becca is a patient. Becca seems unresponsive until Rachel reaches out an touches her hand, when Becca tells Rachel that she will show her how she died. Becca is also aware that Rachel only has 4 days to live. The next scene shows Rachel looking at the tape again, she fast forwards the tape to the part where she saw something falling from the tree, there are fast cuts between rachel and the tape. The films is paused and then there is a fly on the screen with moving wings, she picks it up off the screen and it disappears out of the video. She then has a nose bleed. On Sunday - Day 4, Rachel finds where the lighthouse that is in the tape is situated. It is on something or other island and in an article about the island, there is information about the woman out of the tape who's name is Anna Morgan. Rachel does an online search of her name and a lot of articles about horses and mysteries about how a lot of them died which begs the question, why? We see that a lot of the horses died and she was linked to them in a way. She died by jumping off a cliff which we'd seen on the tape. We then see that Rachel is scribbling out faces on the pictures as Katie did.

Monday - Day 5 see's Noah at a store, looking into a CCTV camera. He notices that he has a distorted face just like Rachel and the photos of Katie and her friends. Rachel then comes home to the babysitter and the camera goes over the actress, for this they probably used a jig, and to the TV, which has started to distort. The baby sitter leaves, an water starts to come out of the bottom of the TV. There is a close up on the water , and Rachel starts to choke. A close up from a low angle is then used to show Rachel choking and she then pulls out a chord that is used to monitor patients in hospitals. She pulls it out goes to the phone, only to see that the phone is leaking water. Rachel then goes to see Aidan and there is a girl sitting in the middle of the floor in a puddle. There is then a bright flash and Rachel wakes up in bed, knowing that it was all a dream, by she wakes up covered in hand shaped bruises. Suggesting that something has happened to her in her sleep. She walks into the lounge to see Aidan sitting watching the tape, angry and upset she turns the video off but the phone rings.Rachel then rings Noah and we find out that Aidan is Noah's son. 

On Tuesday Day 6, there is a sequence of footage revealing the information that Rachel has found Anna's location, we then see a birds eye view of her driving as we have seen previously in the film, suggesting she is making an important journey, along with a voice over of the shot suggesting that both Rachel and Noah are both in the car together. Rachel then gets out of the car and it is raining heavily. She then boards a ferry that will take her to the island where she believe Anna to be. She also reveals that she thinks that you see the ring before you die. The audience at this point don't know what the ring is, which raises questions. Due to the weather, the ferry ride is very rough, this creates mise en scene making the islands she is traveling to seem daunting and unwelcoming.  On the ferry journey, Rachel finds out that Anna had a daughter who died young. Rachel then approaches a horse in a horsebox which is among the cars on the ferry. She reaches out to touch the horse and it becomes aggravated. There are close ups of the horses eyes and hooves which makes the horses power known. The horse then escapes from the horse box and jumps over the side of the boat, using cgi, the water then turns red, explaining that the horse is dead. This raised more questions in the film as we know that horses have been connected to Anna on the island.