The Ring
“Before you die, you see”
Journalist Rachel Keller investigates a strange videotape that may be behind the untimely deaths of 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 in order to save herself and her son.
How The Ring compares
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of The Ring, not taken from this film’s own record.
- #1 of 3
- Rank in the series by rating
- The first film
- Where it sits in the series
- 57%
- Share of the series audience
The Ring (2002) is the highest-rated of the 3 rated films in The Ring series, at 6.7/10 on TMDB against a series average of 5.8/10.
It is the film that started the series, 14 years before the most recent entry, Rings (2017).
Its 6,896 TMDB ratings are 57% of the 12,090 cast across the series, more than any other film in it.
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for The Ring, comparing all 3 released films in the series. Last recalculated September 2026.
