User blog comment:Umbrello/"Smiley" - a horrible creepypasta movie/@comment-25535144-20141019163425/@comment-25170312-20141019202916

I like The Ring just because it has some fun creepy stuff and I love Naomi Watts. But yeah, the japanese version is much more serious and foreboding. It doesn't have much in the way of jump scares, either. It's a gradual increase in dread from the start until that famous scene that, in the japanese version, really hits the mark. Even after seeing the american version, it's still effective.