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HOT GALLERY: The Ring Turns 10! Take a Look Back at Naomi Watts Fighting Evil Like Any Good Horror Heroine
Gore Verbinski’s hit 2002 thriller The Ring helped solidify the careers of many actors. That’s a good thing, since videotapes are now basically obsolete and images on the videotape look like Luis Buñuel’s avant-garde classic short film Un Chien Andalou (1929)—only not as intense. It scared a lot of people, made a lot of money, and spawned a sequel. And really, isn’t that what counts? By Romi Stepovich
Brian Cox as Richard Morgan
Acting veteran Brian Cox plays the suicidal adoptive father of the evil girl Samara (Daveigh Chase), who allegedly started “The Ring” with her deadly videotape. His crazed death scene with Naomi Watts witnessing his self-electrocution could only be accomplished by an actor who worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company as King Lear and as the original Hannibal Lecktor in Manhunter (1986).
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