The Ring

Release Date:  October 18, 2002

Box office total:  $128,579,698 

The film is actually a remake of a Japanese horror movie Ringu.  This version of The Ring was directed by Gore Verbinski, with the screenplay by Ehren Kruger. 

Amber played the pivotal role of Katie Embry, the teenage niece of the main character, who is literally scared to death!  It’s Katie’s memorable death that sets the tone for the movie.  In the opening sequence, Katie is sitting on her bed with a friend listening about a videotape that kills people seven days after viewing it.  She tells her friend she has seen the tape and proceeds to fake her death as a joke.  The phone rings and the girls go into the kitchen where her friend scares her by not revealing it’s really her mom.  After Katie hangs up with her mom she hears the TV come on by itself in the living room.  She gets closer to investigate and thinks her friend is playing a trick on her.  She turns off the TV and starts to walk away when it comes on again.  She runs back and unplugs it. She slowly walks upstairs and sees water coming from under her bedroom door.

She opens the door…and screams.  

Fun Fact:  The collage of “Katie’s” pictures on the cover of her journal is really Amber and her real-life friends.