The Ring opens across the U.S. in 2002. Director Gore Verbinski’s American remake of the 1998 Japanese horror film Ringu is a critical and box office success and the first of a trilogy of Ring films, also leading to a string of American versions of Asian horror films, including The Grudge, Dark Water, The Eye and Mirrors
This Day in Halloween: Director Gore Verbinski’s American remake of the 1998 Japanese horror film "The Ring" opens across the U.S. in 2002. / Illustration by David Ford