If you took a print of "Ring Of Terror" and put it next to a print of an actual horror film (say, the American remake of "The Ring"), I believe that the two film prints would annihilate other as if they were "matter" and "anti-matter", and the resulting flash of energy would create a crater a football field wide and 100 feet deep. And everyone within a mile of the blast would be deaf and blinded for a month. Oh, and also retarded.
OK,I exaggerate. But only a little.
The movie barely has enough plot for a 22 minute segment of a television horror/suspense anthology, but the director and screenwriter pad it out to just over an hour by adding a pointless, badly done framing sequence that obviously is meant to evoke "Tales From The Crypt". They also add an extremely irritating, contrived and unconvincing back story/sub plot involving the least believable "college students" in the history of cinema,who have to say and do things no human being has ever done in recorded history. I've seen this a couple of times (don't ask) and the second time around, all I could think was that either the "actors" called upon to work this screenplay either had no idea what they were doing and how bad it was (highly possible) or they DID suspect it, but soldiered on as best they could for the paycheck.
In spite of the fact that the film features a cat, this film is a dog in every derogatory sense of the word. All that saves this from a one star rating is some moody B&W photography in the final "crypt" sequence, and the fact that I seem to feel sorry for the poor actor who played "Lewis Moffett" and struggled gamely with his thankless part. Poor guy.
OK,I exaggerate. But only a little.
The movie barely has enough plot for a 22 minute segment of a television horror/suspense anthology, but the director and screenwriter pad it out to just over an hour by adding a pointless, badly done framing sequence that obviously is meant to evoke "Tales From The Crypt". They also add an extremely irritating, contrived and unconvincing back story/sub plot involving the least believable "college students" in the history of cinema,who have to say and do things no human being has ever done in recorded history. I've seen this a couple of times (don't ask) and the second time around, all I could think was that either the "actors" called upon to work this screenplay either had no idea what they were doing and how bad it was (highly possible) or they DID suspect it, but soldiered on as best they could for the paycheck.
In spite of the fact that the film features a cat, this film is a dog in every derogatory sense of the word. All that saves this from a one star rating is some moody B&W photography in the final "crypt" sequence, and the fact that I seem to feel sorry for the poor actor who played "Lewis Moffett" and struggled gamely with his thankless part. Poor guy.