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I gave this a 4 out of ten, and I am being quite generous for one thing and one thing only.

My wife and I were able to break the code! After our conversations following the movie it made it better to watch and understand.

The reason this movie COULD have been good is because it showed promise of having a 6th Sense type of feel. The dead ghost helping you live out part of your life, but no one knows he's dead type of thing.

Well in this movie, it was the sister "Wendi" instead of Bruce Willis.

This movie fell short in so many ways, the build up was way to vague and slow, there were a lot of beautiful shots, a lot of moments where we thought, "hey where did they film this, we'd like to go drive that route"...

In the movie the lead actress obviously had some demons in her past, and were all tied to the house left to her upon granny's death.

The director showed that the lead actress had problems with intimacy and a man, each time they were about to do the dirty, she had some bizarre vision. Well to make an extremely long boring story short.... here is my official synopsis.

The lead actress and her sister "Wendi" were obviously molested and sexually abused by Grandpa, this lead to intimacy issues...

When she goes back to the house to prepare it for sale, she was forced to face the demons that she tried so hard to suppress...

She saw visions, had nightmares and battled other emotional issues. She met the grounds keeper who turns out to be a mere presence of a "young grandpa"... yes the ground-keeper didn't exist as the story leads you to believe... he is in fact grandpa, her face turns very concerned every time she gets a good look at him as if there was something strangely familiar about this guy.

Few scenes later kid sister Wendy shows up, says "you started without me", Big sis is surprised enough to see Wendi that she drops all of the pictures and runs down to hug her, she exclaims profoundly how she is glad to see her again and how she misses her... the next line out of Wendi's mouth was a BIG BIG hint... she say's "wow this place is just like I remember it" to which big sister replies, "that's funny it seems a lot smaller" As the movie progresses, "wendi" grows quite fond of this grounds-keeper, the relationship comes to a frightening end when the grounds-keeper says to Wendi, "you can't dance worth sh**, let's see what you can do better than dance" Our best guess is that these are words that Grandpa actually uttered while he was molesting one or both of the girls in their youth.

The lead actress faces her demons of a fear of horses, saves sister, has a confrontation with the grounds-keeper, in their battle Wendi falls over the railing and dies... grounds-keeper gets killed, pretty run of the mill.

In some of the final scenes of the movie, boyfriend comes back, rain stops, he gives the most boring reveal ever in a movie "Wendi has been dead for 17 years" It's then and ONLY then can you start to piece together this puzzle that had a lot of potential, but because of the Juvenile brain of the director, it never made it to your television... how sad.

Oh by the way, the reason the place seemed just the same to Wendi and not her sis is because... obviously wendi only has memories of it as a kid since she died as a kid.

But now that you've seen what I had to say, Watch it again, think about these words... the movie will be much better for you.

Sob,

why, why, why did I rent this?

Cut to the chase: Do not, under no circumstances watch this film.

Where, where, where is the plot? Remember that thing called a plot? And it took FIVE writers to produce this drivel?

And the amount of stupid, stupid stuff!

1. The cisco IP phone that she's using at the office is not connected... The phone's screen is BLANK.

2. When she gets to the house she find three rats in the breadbox. HOW did three rats find their way into a CLOSED bread box?

3. She starts removing covers from furniture in a house that has not been used in years - not a single speck of dust.

4. When you cut the head of a chicken, there's a TON of blood...

5. Constant makeup on the protagonist. Like, everyone goes to bed with lip gloss...

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OK, the WORSE movie ever - or a good challenger to the throne

I've watched my share of dumb horror movies. Everything from cheaply-produced crap like "Zombie Chronicles" to somewhat-decently-produced crap like "House of the Dead 2", and after each dismal viewing I come away with the foolish belief that the worst is behind me. And with every new trip to Blockbuster I am proved wrong.

"Ring Around the Rosie" tells the tale of "Karen", a successful young business woman who inherits her grandparents' summer cottage following the death of her grandmother.

She goes up with her dorky boyfriend to clean the place up to sell it... and that's when the terror starts. For me, that is.

Gina Philips, (who played an obnoxious college student in "Jeepers Creepers" tops that character here in terms of complete and utter obnoxiousness. Here she's a frigid, immature ----- who treats her boyfriend like crap and behaves like a 13-year-old girl (watch how she freaks out upon discovering rats in the breadbox). She's so unlikable it's hard to elicit any sympathy for her at all) Her mentally-unstable character starts having hallucinations/flashbacks/dreams about how she and her sister Wendy were sexually molested by their grandfather when they were young (it's not actually said right out, but it's suggested).

Enter Tom Sizemore as "Pierce", a creepy psychotic caretaker who becomes taken by Karen and her pointless sister "Wendy" and begins to stalks them in an increasingly suspenseful game of cat-and-mouse. In other words, it's Tom Sizemore as every other character he's ever played in a movie ever.

Things go increasingly downhill from there, with Karen going crazy, Pierce becoming more obsessed with her and Wendy, and Wendy basically just taking up space. All of this leading up to an ending that makes no sense and doesn't explain a darn thing.

Is it all a dream? A hallucination? Karen coming to terms with her past? Is Pierce supposed to be a subconscious manifestation of her abusive grandfather? I don't care and neither should you.

Originally, my roommates and I were seeking a horror and a comedy to rent this evening... looks like we got both with "Ring-Around-the-Rosie"... only without the horror!!!!! At the beginning of the film we thought the actress had to be on LSD, and then, before the conclusion we thought maybe it was us for selecting it!!! It was the most incoherent verbal and visual diarrhea we agree we have ever seen on screen. I can see now how her fears were revisited... nature does have a way with scary wind (which by the way never blew out the candles all along her dresser, but some how managed to scatter the photos in her hand and heave her out the open window). After watching the film we found to our "astonishment" that there were no deleted scenes, as they were obviously all used in the film. Those 30 second fillers... we don't know what we enjoyed more- the angry wind, her clinging to the baseball bat like it was a French baguette, or the consecutive flashes of shaking black boots. I don't know about the rest of you movie credits but there has to something scary about a horse standing and a barely sloping hill. We do recommend it though, for any group of people who need a good laugh and a rescue from the reality of real horror flicks. The ones you pay to see. Finally, to add to the comment of an earlier critic... we agree brother... "nope. wrong. all wrong."

Having read the other reviews I am surprised at the number of people who apparently didn't understand the fairly clear plot.

This is the story of Karen who has been charged with having to sell her grandparents house, in which she spent a lot of time as a child. Upon returning to the house she begins to have episodes which we (the audience) can't yet determine to be dreams or hallucinations or entire psychotic breaks. Through subtle and ingeniously creepy camera work they soon reveal to you that Karen was molested by her Grandfather as a child. That particular inference was, apparently, very difficult for a portion of the audience to determine. I thought it was very clear.

Once you begin to understand that you do have to THINK to comprehend this movie you begin to second guess yourself as to what is actually going on. I found this (and the cool camera work) to be part of what kept us 'unsettled' during the movie. You're never quite sure what's real and what is in Karen's mind.

Karen's sister, Wendy, unexpectedly shows up just as Pierce (Sizemore) is becoming a bit to close for comfort.

Scary stuff ensues and the movie ends with Karen coming to terms with the past her Grandfather put her through and we (the audience)'discover' that her horrid experience as an adult was all a function of her mind finally accepting the past. We thought it was fairly obvious that Sizemore was the manifestation of Karen's guilt for her inability to stop her sister's accident years ago. (we also think that may not have been an accident, but a suicide because Grandpa moved on to Wendy, but couldn't find anything to confirm our suspicions).

It has been years since I've enjoyed a horror movie that I hadn't figured out halfway through. It wasn't until just before the very end in Ring Around the Rosie that we did figure it out. It kept us interested and guessing and quite startled throughout the entire movie.

The fact that this was not your run-of-the-mill horror movie is confirmed for me, not only because I truly enjoyed it but because my boyfriend managed to watch the whole thing without falling asleep!! (That NEVER happens!)

Karin(Gina Philips)is an advertising exec that honors her dying grandmother's wish of returning to the crumbling estate on which she was raised until she was thirteen and prepare it for sale on the real estate market. She has bad memories from her past, but reluctantly goes to the rundown estate. Thinking she is alone, she realizes there is caretaker named Pierce(Tom Sizemore)living on the grounds. Pierce is not just a little creepy, he is cruel and dangerous. Karin's sister Wendy(Jenny Mollen)arrives to help put things at ease...but things begin to go horrifically wrong. The caretaker becomes a sadistic madman and near impossible to appease. Miss Philips is very easy to look at; Sizemore will make you shiver.

This movie reminds me of Ed Wood movies but it lacks the "charm".

Directing is very lazy. It seams like whenever there was a choice of doing something in a harder and better or easier and worst way director made a choice for the second.

The movie projects no energy and creates no interest - for me at least - seams like this aesthetic suits other people very well but I had to fast forward a lot of scenes and I actually skipped last 20mins to the end which was an even bigger disappointment: Another movie that ends with discovery that main character imagined everything.

I like this ending in Alice in Wonderland but it seams to be very trendy with thrillers and horrors lately and - for me - it ruins the whole thing and seams very easy and cheap way justify the story.

Sorry I am not very constructive but I cant say much more - it was a waste of money to rent this film.

If it was possible to give this pathetic excuse of a movie absolutely no stars I would have. This movie definitely ranks up there with one of the absolute worst movies I have ever seen.

For one, it was extremely boring. For like 5 minutes every 20 minutes it'd seem like it was going to get interesting but nope it just went nowhere.

The acting was horrible. I, myself, seem like a golden globe winner compared to the acting in this movie.

Oh, and don't even get me started on the plot. The whole makes-no-sense plot was all suppose to lead to a "surprisingly good ending", but nope definitely did not. Once the ending was revealed I thought that they were at least going to explain why this girl dreamed the whole movie up, but nope. They didn't explain how her sister died.

To sum it all up, if you have a choice between this movie and any other movie on the face of planet, get the other movie. I wasted 3 bucks to rent this movie cause with the title "Ring Around the Rosie" I thought it was going to be about a bunch of creepy kids (which absolutely scares the hell out of me). The title didn't enough have anything to do with the movie. This movie was just the very definition of crap!

I never thought I would see a movie that trumped American Werewolf in London for stupidity, but I have, and this is certainly it.

You know how you're watching a movie and you're not really sure what's going on for the first few minutes? Well, thats what happened in this film, except it only makes sense five minutes before it ends. That is literally the only reason I finished watching this.

First of all, I don't care how hot the lead character is, she's an idiot. She's alone at a house with only this creepy grounds keeper and he's like "lets go for a walk in the forest by the cliff where no one can hear you scream" and she's all like "ok". She's an idiot. Seriously.

I watched this with my mom. She figured out early on *major spoiler* that the girl was raped by her grandfather when she went to the house each summer 17 years ago. ***end spoiler*** Now, you may have watched this movie and be wondering what I was talking about. Well, this is because they never ever mention that specifically. It's like they think they've left you enough clues to figure it out but they haven't.

Finally, the 'frightening' scene with the girl in the reflection. At first I thought this was very well done, but then I rewound it. If you watch closely, you actually she the girl duck down slowly. Yeah, real spooky.

Dear Viewer,

This movie is quite possibly one of the worst movies in all existence. If you've ever seen Plan 9 From Outer Space or Slaughterhouse of the Rising Sun and enjoy those movies for their terrible acting, you'll probably still hate this movie. It's completely incoherent... I've never seen a movie with no plot, shoddy camera-work, AND bad acting (the three mainstays of horror) while being devoid of any attempt at some sort of final explanation or solution. It is without a doubt a complete waste of time. Many people exaggerate when they label something "a waste of time", but if you make the mistake of seeing this movie, be forewarned that something deep inside you will be sucked out...never to be replaced or validated by any means.

(Upcoming Spoiler) The only reason why I'm giving this movie two out of ten is because Jenny Mollen (Wendy) is really hot and you get to see her in a white tank top while it's raining. (End of Spoiler)

Where do you start with such a steaming pile of waste masquerading as a film? The scenario is as follows, some gal's grandmother dies and leaves here the family home. Tells her to "clean it up and sell it".

Through a series of plodding hallucinations and misadventures the audience is slowly lulled into a boredom-induced coma. By the end, you really don't care what happens. In fact, I wanted the protagonist to be murdered 20 minutes into the film. She is truly that annoying.

So, I'm watching this thing, praying for death (hers or mine)and NOTHING HAPPENS. There's a shot of here screaming and then a shot of a badly painted door, she opens the door to reveal... clothing.

5 minutes later; there's a shot of her screaming and then a shot of a badly painted door, she opens the door to reveal... clothing...

Shot of her screaming, a shot of a badly painted door, open the door, clothing.

I'd have rather spent the hour and a half I suffered through this snore-fest in a dentists chair. At least I'd have gotten some Novocaine.

At the end of the misery, there is a completely underwhelming "reveal" that means nothing in the context (or out of the context) of the film.

This travesty had five (5) writers credited at the end. It took five separate people to screw this thing up as badly as they did.

Based on the no-name talent, it looks like they spent all their money on Tom Sizemore and they wasted it there.

One good actor cannot save a huge floating turd such as this. Tom, while capable and talented was completely unbelievable in this role. He was not creepy, scary, disturbing or even mildly annoying. in What's really disturbing is that someone, somewhere thought this was a great idea and dumped huge amounts of money into it. What's wrong with these people? To sum up: Don't see it, don't even look at the DVD box. Just pass it by.