Drama horror film

Rings (2017): Ratings, Box Office & Plot

Name: Rings
Genre: Drama, Horror
Released: 2017-02-03
Duration: 1 h 42 min

Rings is a 2017 drama horror film directed by F. Javier Gutiérrez. It brings to the screen characters from Ring by Kōji Suzuki and Glynne Walley. It runs 1 hour 42 minutes and earned $83.1 million worldwide on a $25 million budget. Critics gave it 8% on Rotten Tomatoes and 25 on Metacritic, and IMDb users rate it 4.5/10.

IMDb rating: 4.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 8%
worldwide gross: $83.1M
Metascore: 25

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Released: February 3, 2017
Runtime: 1h 42m (102 min)
Director: F. Javier Gutiérrez
Genres: Drama , Horror
Original language: English
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Budget: $25M
Based on: Ring by Kōji Suzuki and Glynne Walley
After the credits: No No extra scene

The story

What Is Rings About?

The premise of Rings without spoilers. The whole story is in the plot summary further down.

A young woman finds her life threatened when her boyfriend investigates a disturbing underground phenomenon involving a cursed videotape. After he watches the tape, she becomes entangled in a terrifying game where anyone who views it will die seven days later. Determined to save him, she begins to unravel the mystery behind the tape, discovering a hidden horror and a shocking truth about its origins.

Rings Themes & Keywords

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curse
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vcr
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videotape
psychotronic film
rape and revenge
female protagonist
car wreck
blind man
church
close up of eye

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seven days to live
hyperventilating
hallucination
death
maggot
electrocution
sex scene
surprise ending
sex dream
bare chested male
climbing out of a well
birdcage
cat
slime
bird
housefly
origami crane
airplane crash
mobile
coming out of a television
strangulation
woman wrapped in a towel
rape
revenge
telephone terror
message from beyond the grave
mystery from beyond the grave
phone call from beyond the grave
cursed videotape
watching a videotape
copying a videotape
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requel
samara morgan character
young
legacy sequel
bird hits a windshield
computer virus

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Crew

The Director of Rings

Directed by F. Javier Gutiérrez.

Director F. Javier Gutiérrez

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Rings Reviews & Ratings

Critics gave Rings 8% on Rotten Tomatoes and 25 on Metacritic, and IMDb users rate it 4.5/10.

IMDb

4.5 /10
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Rotten Tomatoes

8% Tomatometer

Popcornmeter 23%
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Metacritic

25 Metascore

User score 4.2
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TMDB

50% User score
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Movie Insider

2.9 /5
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Plot

Rings Plot Summary

What happens in Rings from start to finish, spoilers included, with a timeline of 15 key events. The opening is below; the full summary is a 4-minute read.

Spoilers ahead

The film begins aboard an airplane where Carter (Zach Roerig) appears visibly shaken. Seated next to him, Faith (Laura Wiggins) is concerned and inquires about his distress. Carter reveals that just a week prior, he witnessed a deeply unsettling video, followed by a chilling phone call warning him he would perish in seven days, precisely five minutes from their current time. As turbulence strikes the plane, Carter heads to the bathroom, prompting Faith’s friend Kelly (Lizzie Brochere) to become alarmed upon hearing about the video, as she too has seen it.

Full summary

The whole story of Rings, scene by scene

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Timeline of events

Box office

Rings Box Office & Budget

Rings grossed $83.1 million worldwide on a $25 million budget, 3.3 times what it cost. $27.8 million came from the US and Canada and $55.3 million (67%) from the rest of the world.

2017 box office

Worldwide gross

$83.1M

3.3× its budget