Episode 484 - The Ring (2002)
Added 2020-05-13 14:41:34 +0000 UTCOn this month's exclusive WLM offering, the gang is going back to the film that started the J-horror remake craze in Hollywood, The Ring! Capitalizing on the Verbinski Mania that's been sweeping the show, the guys chat about how eerie and effectively scary the film remains after 18 years, what other films Martin Henderson may have appeared in, and why it's so important to never borrow a VHS tape someone left behind in their seedy motel cabin! PLUS: How dare Disney+ offer up America's Funniest Home Videos and only to start with the thirteenth season of Tom Bergeron's reign?!
The Ring stars Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman, Brian Cox, Jane Alexander, Amber Tamblyn, Rachael Bella, and Daveigh Chase; directed by Gore Verbinksi.
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Cover art by the one and only Felipe Sobreiro.
Comments
Fcked up movie, love it
Jan
2024-12-11 17:53:38 +0000 UTCAwesome!!
Chris
2024-10-10 03:14:19 +0000 UTCyou're out of your mind, that scene made me shit my pants!
RaggyB
2021-11-13 21:20:44 +0000 UTCYes please do a Lynch episode!
Eric Dietz
2021-06-20 08:51:30 +0000 UTCEnjoyed this movie until the girl came out of the TV. It jumped the shark at that point.
SECRETARIATguy
2020-11-22 23:27:42 +0000 UTCThing about making the Ring now, no one answers their phones. Samara would be like “shit, no I do not want to leave a message!”
Amy Eales
2020-10-31 21:27:16 +0000 UTCI joined patreon for this episode. It's funny one of you guys mentioned Samara versus someone. Anyways, there is a Japanese version called Sadako vs Kayako which is the ring chick versus the grudge chick. If you ever want to do J-Horror. Do that movie, please.
Melissa
2020-08-17 16:58:05 +0000 UTCAny Lynch. Doesn't matter. Blue Velvet I think would be interesting, or an introspection on the entire Twin Peaks, but that is many, many hours of discussion.
Dakotah Salazar
2020-06-30 03:52:09 +0000 UTCLogged onto Patreon to say YES please do Lost Highway/Lynch in general!!!
Liz
2020-05-18 21:46:44 +0000 UTCIn response to the Q about reviewing some of the Lynch oeuvre - I say go for it! I tend to trust you all to know what's good material for the program, so if you're feeling it, have at.
Andy
2020-05-18 17:03:35 +0000 UTCI’ve been loving this series on Pirates/Gore Verbinski. Even though I’m not a Bruckheimer fan, I have soft spot for the first Pirates. I was 10 or 11 when it came out, and have been on the ride many times, so that probably adds to it. I think that film was for me what Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves was for Szyszka. But I never really liked Pirates 2 or 3 and didn’t bother to watch 4 or 5. So, yeah these episodes haven’t disappointed yet. Can’t wait for the next one. Also, yes to a Lynch film for We Love Movies.
Blake Ferronetti
2020-05-18 09:20:13 +0000 UTCbeen dying at the $8 level every month since it was invented and joining the chorus of please help us cope with Lynch's existence, the existence of bugs in the deep grass, and all the rest of existence humoursly <3
Clifton Jewett
2020-05-18 05:40:23 +0000 UTCnot sure if holding Andrew hostage to watch Lynch's Dune would be hotter than that bondage porn of making Steve watch Commando the first time or not...
Clifton Jewett
2020-05-18 05:38:13 +0000 UTCFun fact: Gore Verbinski directed Bad Religion's music video for 21st centuary digital boy, where a creepy kid watches white noise on his tube tv and then the band comes out of the tv playing the song. Might be why he got the movie. Also, the videographer ex has a bad religion sticker in his camera gear locker
Randy Record
2020-05-17 22:01:42 +0000 UTCComing out of the woodwork solely to say, yes, please do a David Lynch movie.
Stefan Kienzle
2020-05-16 07:48:20 +0000 UTCSweet ref
Andrew Bowers
2020-05-16 03:00:46 +0000 UTCYes make lynch things
Brandon Gorin
2020-05-16 01:12:58 +0000 UTCI would like heard you talk about some Lynch on WLM
Veronica Forker
2020-05-15 22:46:52 +0000 UTCYes yes and yes to WHM on Lynch. Anything Lynch. "Elephant Man", "Blue Velvet" can't miss.
Kerri Mellick IC#5695
2020-05-15 19:57:41 +0000 UTCWould LOVE it if you did a Lynch movie!
Robin Fry
2020-05-15 19:56:16 +0000 UTCYes to something Lynch!!
Lynette Michelle
2020-05-15 19:14:40 +0000 UTCIn the extended version, the mother actually pulls a loose brick and hits Samara in the head while the bag is over her head, then she throws her in the well. Surprised they didn’t mention it lol
Jeremie Lavigne
2020-05-15 19:12:04 +0000 UTCI would Not be turned off by a "Lost Highway" commentary.
Beatrix
2020-05-14 20:15:03 +0000 UTCHonk honk plot hole. They say she killed the horses because they were loud when she was trying to sleep, but than they say she never slept.
Ryan j Navarro cote
2020-05-14 20:03:02 +0000 UTCThat shit is catnip for dads
Catboyslim
2020-05-14 14:53:38 +0000 UTCVideo store in Atlanta? Was it Videodrome?
Catboyslim
2020-05-14 14:45:38 +0000 UTCSailor, you’re just crazy and wild at heart!
Catboyslim
2020-05-14 14:42:01 +0000 UTCI think the Pulse remake is too boring and mediocre for a Stay Tuned, but there's a single jump-scare with a gross "pulsed" cat that is memorable to me.
Eric Rational
2020-05-14 03:31:32 +0000 UTCYesss! Just rewatched this and the sequel a few weeks ago. I still have no idea what the point of the second one was. Ringu still awesome tho
Michael Beatty
2020-05-14 00:43:35 +0000 UTCI'm up for a "Lost Highway"
Anh-Tu
2020-05-14 00:25:52 +0000 UTCO M GAHHHHH NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN thats gonna kick ass
Dash Coom
2020-05-13 23:42:40 +0000 UTCAndrew: FYI, as you were curious on the episode, Rick Baker retired after 2014's "Maleficent". He released his tell-all memoir in Oct. 2019.
Cody Downs
2020-05-13 22:47:33 +0000 UTCTotally down for any Lynch movies y'all throw up on this feed.
Anthony Trevino
2020-05-13 22:30:54 +0000 UTCI enjoyed Sadako v. Kayako well enough to watch it again some time later. Though it's not a parody film, it does play out quite similalyr to Freddy vs. Jason if you're looking at the broad narrative strokes. It's basically two parallel stories, one Ring and one Ju-On. For the first two acts they don't have a whole lot to do with each other. Then, in the third act, they decide to try and pit the two curses against each other to cancel them out (shrug). Conceptually it's bonkers, but I enjoy both series and they do the best they can with the whole "vs." angle. Come for the J-horror, stay for the rockstar exorcist and his preternatural young ward. Comes out of nowhere and ushers in the full-tilt crazy tonal shift into the "vs.". Feels like something out of a Shaw Bros movie.
Robert Ballard
2020-05-13 22:10:16 +0000 UTCAs a PNW dweller, you are grossly underestimating how insane people have been/are about ignoring safe building codes. Its kinda nuts. At this point, I wouldn't even shrug my shoulders at learning someone built a house over a well.
Chris Walton
2020-05-13 21:04:50 +0000 UTCjoy ride RULES and should be a whm ep for sure
Dash Coom
2020-05-13 20:37:53 +0000 UTCHell mother fuckin yea a longer episode
regularspecial1 .
2020-05-13 20:14:36 +0000 UTCwould LOVE to hear yall goof on a lynch movie for WLM!
Dash Coom
2020-05-13 19:05:27 +0000 UTCI didn't really like sadako vs. kayako. I'm not a big watcher of Japanese horror but i thought it was mostly boring
Chris Robinson
2020-05-13 18:36:11 +0000 UTCWings the TV show was me cutting school to sleep in and start smoking weed at 10am
Thicc Nolte
2020-05-13 18:29:31 +0000 UTCWings was a series of documentaries. My dad used to pass out drunk on the couch while watching it. I remember several episodes. It’s fun if you’re interested in plane/war history.
Thicc Nolte
2020-05-13 18:27:01 +0000 UTCJust gonna make a hard request for Wild At Heart. Cage. Dern. Dafoe. Elvis. How could you resist. Please.
Jamie Brittain
2020-05-13 18:17:15 +0000 UTCYeah man The Elephant man is the way to go. Especially since Mel Brooks won the Oscar for producing. Also my ex roommate has a kid named Aden and hes fucking weird as hell. He had a real shitty mustache and resembles the dad from the Creaplys from the Flintstones.
Joe Martinez
2020-05-13 18:16:56 +0000 UTCDo Dune! Dune! Dune! Dune! Dune!
Paul
2020-05-13 18:02:53 +0000 UTCThe Ring came out when I was in high school, and a girl in one of my classes had seen it and was talking about it. She said "It's called The Ring, because a phone rings before you die." I will never forget this
Unicorn Trista
2020-05-13 17:54:20 +0000 UTCI'm up for ALL the Lynch.
Ellen Aim
2020-05-13 17:44:18 +0000 UTCOh, and my vote for a WLM Lynch episode would be THE ELEPHANT MAN
Felipe Sobreiro
2020-05-13 17:05:37 +0000 UTCI think Dune is a regular WHM (even if they end up liking it)
Felipe Sobreiro
2020-05-13 16:45:44 +0000 UTCi feel like this years WHM Halloween should be Lynch on the patreon and american remakes of japanese horror movies on the regular feed
G Goldhar
2020-05-13 16:40:16 +0000 UTCDo "Blue Velvet" as a WLM entry in 2021 to commemorate its 35th anniversary!
Cody Downs
2020-05-13 15:57:22 +0000 UTCYes, I did & it ranks as one of the most boring films in recent years, I found Dane Dehaan's character to be SO unengaging.
Cody Downs
2020-05-13 15:56:15 +0000 UTCAnything Lynch!!
Jonathon pfortmiller
2020-05-13 15:54:15 +0000 UTCAnything Lynch would be a ton of fun! Mulholland Drive is a dang masterpiece.
Hadley Turner
2020-05-13 15:36:27 +0000 UTCWould love to listen to you guys do Lost Highway.
allegedlycool
2020-05-13 15:24:46 +0000 UTCHey tho, what about Dune?
Jacob Hill
2020-05-13 14:58:48 +0000 UTC100% into a WLM episode on a David Lynch film
Nathan Stables
2020-05-13 14:57:13 +0000 UTCAnyone else watch that Cure for Wellness movie Verbinski directed a few years back?
Matt Lambert
2020-05-13 14:49:05 +0000 UTCI'm forging ahead with Pirate-mania, this is a good interlude. Man, you guys couldn't be more wrong about that Pirates Disney World ride though. Hands down, my favorite ride in the park. You get in there after a day at the park, it's dark, it's nice and cool, the puppets are baller, the boat is small so you're probably just with a friend, you just sit back and let the ride tell you a pirate story. Maybe you've eaten a tall glass of water some time during the day....ah it's just the best. I probably hit that ride half a dozen times every time I go to DW
Smaug
2020-05-13 14:45:38 +0000 UTCEh heh heh.
Felix, DJ
2020-05-13 14:42:28 +0000 UTC
