Q 01/05

Who directed the 2002 American film The Ring?

A) David Fincher

B) Wes Craven

C) Gore Verbinski

D) M. Night Shyamalan

Answer · why

C) Gore Verbinski

Gore Verbinski directed The Ring (2002), whose success set off a run of Hollywood remakes of Asian horror films, among them The Grudge and Dark Water.

Q 02/05

Who plays journalist Rachel Keller in The Ring?

A) Jennifer Connelly

B) Naomi Watts

C) Nicole Kidman

D) Sarah Michelle Gellar

Answer · why

B) Naomi Watts

Naomi Watts plays Rachel Keller; she had broken through the year before in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive (2001).

Q 03/05

How long do viewers of the cursed tape have to live?

A) One day

B) Three days

C) Seven days

D) Thirty days

Answer · why

C) Seven days

Seven days: when the tape ends the phone rings and a voice whispers 'seven days', the time left before Samara comes for the viewer.

Q 04/05

In The Ring (2002), who throws Samara into the well?

A) Her adoptive father

B) Her birth mother

C) Her adoptive mother

D) A doctor from the island

Answer · why

C) Her adoptive mother

Her adoptive mother, Anna Morgan, tries to smother Samara with a bag and drops her into the well, as Rachel sees in a vision; in the Japanese original...

Q 05/05

Which young actress plays Samara in The Ring (2002)?

A) Dakota Fanning

B) Daveigh Chase

C) Rachael Bella

D) Hayden Panettiere

Answer · why

B) Daveigh Chase

Daveigh Chase plays Samara, the same year she voiced Lilo in Lilo & Stitch; she said the ending frightened her so much in the cinema that she covered ...