Ring (opens in new tab)

Hideo Nakata, 1998, ★★ Our protagonist finds a cursed videotape that kills the viewer a week after they watch it, starts using her skills as a journalist to get to the bottom of it, and then almost immediately hands the whole project over to her ex-husband so she can rest her little brain, because she is, after all, just a girl. Oh, and her ex is able to unravel the mystery in fairly short order due to the fact that he is… a psychic. Almost all the exposition in this film is him telling her w...