The “the Ring” Podcast
There are thirteen theatrical movies based off The Ring, you know, the one with the tape that kills you and the girl who crawls out of the television. Caoimhe and Jen go deeper into the well into parts of the series that most people don’t know exist in this unofficial fan podcast.
Episodes
The Ring Virus (1999) and Itch.io games
Finally we talk about the famous remake of Ring!
Spiral (1999) — Episode 1 and Birthday (2000)
We start into a second television series, which diverges even more from the source material than the first one.
Manga roundup
Big roundup of Manga adaptations. The Chart is starting to look like hell.
Ring: The Final Chapter (1999) — The Final Episode and Ring: Infinity (2000)
We close the final chapter on this show and talk about game for the Bandai Wonderswan.
Ring 0: Birthday (2000) and Don’t Look Up (1996)
It’s bedtime for sleepyheads.
Ring: The Final Chapter (1999) — Episodes 10 & 11 and Sadaki taxi
This episode is written in, French.
Birthday (1999) and The People’s Sadako
An epilogue to the original Ring trilogy focusing on the women of the series, who the books have always been very normal about. Also, what if Sadako joined the People’s Liberation Army?
Ring: The Final Chapter (1999) — Episodes 8 & 9 and amusement attractions
In which Caoimhe rambles about maths for five minutes.
Loop (1998)
Don’t worry we will only be going through this one once. No one has ever wanted to make an adaptation of Loop. Well, except for maybe that Dreamcast game.
Ring: The Final Chapter (1999) — Episodes 6 & 7 and Ao Oni Online
Finally, Sadako will show up tonight! And trap you in her scary tower full of patrolling Metal Gear Solid onis.
Spiral (1998), Spiral (1999)
The Ring movie took a lot of liberties with the source material. Spiral is quite faithful, which makes it a terrible sequel to Ring. The two were released on the same day, making the mismatch even more obvious. It was retconned by Ring 2 within a year.
Ring: The Final Chapter (1999) — Episodes 4 & 5 and pachinko
Jen and Caoimhe learn about quasi-legal gambling.
Spiral (1995) and Tallest Sadako
We spiral into madness.
Ring: The Final Chapter (1999) — Episodes 2 & 3 and a promotional computer virus
Ryuji performs some CSI magic on the tape and we discover that Miyashita is apparently the only doctor in existence.
Ring (1995), Ring (1996), Ring (1996)
The first film adaptation of Ring was a 1995 TV movie, followed by a manga and radio drama in 1996, the latter of which destroys Caoimhe.
Ring: The Final Chapter (1999) — Episode 1
Jen finally understands why Caoimhe got obsessed with this series as she is floored by the twist at the end of the first episode of Ring: The Final Chapter, a TV show made in 1999 to cash in on the success of the movie.
Ring (1991)
Ring by Koji Suzuki was the start of it all, and it has a lot that was cut out from more famous adaptation. Mostly for good reason.
The Ring: Terror’s Realm (2000) — Part 2
We finally find the ring from The Ring‼
The Ring: Terror’s Realm (2000) — Part 1
The first Ring media released in North America was a Resident Evil clone for the Dreamcast about a woman getting stuck in a V.R. game on her first day of working for the C.D.C.
Ring 2 (1999)
Ring 2 tried to capture the atmosphere of the first film, but it flounders and starts to go in strange directions. We talk through this sequel that doesn’t quite work.
Ring (1998)
The Ring was pretty big back in 2002, but it’s based on a Japanese movie of the same name. Or maybe it’s just Ring. Or maybe it’s *sigh* Ringu. Whatever you want to call it it’s a good film and a good place to start a podcast.