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I didn't find the American version of The Ring to be as scary as the original. The original version actually scared the living crap out of me - that girl.... Ugh. Plus it was the first time certain kinds of unnatural jerky unjointed movements were used in horror and that was an incredible impact. Plus the usual solution of "putting body to rest" didn't work. That evil little girl would not be stopped.

I don't scare easy. I love dark and disturbing thrillers and horror based on tension and physiological twisting rather than gore. Gore puts me off and I get bored. The saw movies bored the shit out of me.

So the original ring and I recall the shining gave me the willies.

I recently watched the Australian film "the Babadook" because it got %100 from the critics and it was a crowd funded first movie from a fabulously ingenious woman. It is incredibly well done and the story, along with the horror, is really well developed and well done. There is no gore, just high tension and plot twists. It's about an evil spirit that entres through a children's book and a child with emotional and anxiety issues and his single mom who is at wits end and misses her dead husband.

I was at the edge of my see with a huge smile on my face from how tense it was. Most of the critics said "genuinely terrifying story" - I wasn't scared personally but it's definitely a favourite of mine now of that genera