Rachel Keller is a journalist investigating a videotape that may have killed four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring so she can save herself and her son.
This movie contains 58 potentially triggering events.
Yes, Noah is not actively in Aiden's life, but he is still friends with the mother. Aiden spends time with Noah and they discuss his lack of parenting as a conundrum.
*SPOILERS* Samara’s father keeps her in a barn because he doesn’t want her, and her mother suffocates her then throws her down the well, so I’d say yes
Not exactly, but characters receive calls immediately after watching a video, and there's a theme of a supernatural force watching and following people.
one child is neglected and definitely needs treatment for mental health issues. another child is murdered by a parent after being neglected for a long time and sent to a mental hospital.
Horse spooks and jumps off ferryboat. Get shredded by the ferry's propellers. Don't actually see the death, but the blood comes out from under the ferry indicating what happened and it's upsetting.
The horse is a young girl’s pet. She sees it go under the boat and hears its scream as its blood comes out the back. She screams in terror at the sight.
Samara dies because she survived the fall down the well and couldn't get out for seven days. Scratch marks on the walls of the well suggest she was trying to escape.
The person above said that a horse's head gets squashed. While a horse does die (audio accomponying it) and blood is shown in the water, we don't see its head at all. Just some thrashing of its body before the blood shows up.
For humans, it doesn't have head trauma for the most part. Facial trauma is shown in "demonic" deformed faces when someone opens a closet door and turns a chair around. These are both jumpscares of dead bodies. But like I said, that's more facial trauma. The first one, the closet scene, has the body's head move forward, slumping over. It mildly triggered me.
A bit. The two main characters are exes and make up near the end of the movie. However, even though they have made up, the man in the relationship has a girlfriend that he is still seeing.
Samara "speaks" to Aidan by sending him some kind of telepathic messages. It's not quite possession, but may still be unsettling to viewers who don't want to see possession.
multiple mental institution scenes. one character is locked in a room for days without stimulation and then is interviewed and neglected. another is in a psych ward that is much less intense but is definitely shaken up by the experience. we also see a common room of the psych ward but nothing bad happens there
several mental institution scenes but no hospitals. however the psych wards have all-white tile walls and floors and seem very sterile which could be triggering
There is a boy that is not said to be autistic but as an autistic person myself I could tell and I think it was rather clear and certainly intended. The woman speaks about how it is difficult to have patience and love him and how he’s “not right” which isn’t inherently wrong or ableist I suppose but felt a little upsetting to me so just a warning.
There is a child briefly featured in the movie who is not specifically described as autistic, but he avoids eye contact and engages in echolalia, so he may be coded as autistic. The language his mother uses to describe him is somewhat demeaning and ableist (although the word autism/autistic is never used).
There's a lot of loud, high pitched noises; TV static turned screechy feedback as well as people screaming. On Netflix at least, the volume is poorly regulated and goes back and forth from hard to hear to painfully loud. also plenty of wet sounds.
While not necessarily strobe effects, images and film bits frequently flash across the screen. People sensitive to that kind of thing should keep that in mind.
There's a very brief moment where a woman has her shirt off and is wearing a bra. This is not depicted in a sexual way. Otherwise nothing that could be described as sexual.
no footage of drowning but a character electrocuted themself, a horse jumps overboard but dies quickly from the blades on the motor of the ship, and a child is thrown down a well but was able to survive for a few days so presumably died from hunger. we do see the dead child’s body floating up from the water which could be triggering.
several disfigured and discolored faces that are scary. someone pulls a wire or hair out of their throat through their mouth. another character crawls on broken glass and presumably cuts his hands which results in handprints of blood on the floor. another character commits suicide by electrocution. multiple dead horses and we witness one death of a horse but it isn’t shown on screen