The Ring (2002)

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.

In The Ring, consciousness is carried by the dead — a plane of “cursed media”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing fear, media, mortality.