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Ring of Terror (1962)

A group of medical students undertake some silly and frightening endeavors in order to pledge a fraternity.

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George E. Mather ...
Lewis B. Moffitt (as George Mather)
Austin Green ...
Carl
Esther Furst ...
Betty Crawford
Norman Ollestad ...
Lew's Roommate
Lomax Study ...
Professor Rayburn
Pamela Raymond ...
Alice Lund
Jerry Zinnamon ...
(as Jerry Zin)
Joseph Conway ...
R.J. Dobson
June Smaney ...
Rag Doll Milford
Ed Erwin ...
(as Eddie Erwin)
Ann Morgan ...
Coed Waitress
Tom Brandt
Hal Hoover
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(as Charles Martin)
Ollie O'Toole ...
Dr. Walsh
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Med student Lewis Moffitt harbours a secret fear of the dark stemming from a traumatic childhood incident involving a corpse. Nonetheless, he pretends to be unaffected during the first autopsy witnessed by his class, and generally affects an attitude of fearlessness. This, however, inspires his would-be frat brothers to conceive a particularly morbid initiation ritual -- one which will, inevitably, go horribly awry. Written by Shannon Patrick Sullivan <[email protected]>

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This movie was parodied in season 2 episode 6 of Mystery Science Theater 3000. See more »

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In the band scene, a piano and clarinet can be heard, but these instruments are not in the band. See more »

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Featured in Mystery Science Theater 3000: Ring of Terror (1990) See more »

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It's not really anything!
10 September 2007 | by (London, UK) – See all my reviews

As the end credits rolled to the execrable Ring Of Terror the first thing that occurred to me was that it had not succeeded to be any genre of movie at all, and I don't mean that in the good Donnie Darko way either.

The main problem is that it is essentially a Twilight Zone style set-up/payoff story but the film skirts so lightly over the setup (our main character has no fear) that the final pay-off seems utterly unconnected to anything. On top of that the payoff happens so swiftly that there's no dramatic tension at all.

The second problem is the tone. The movie starts off as a horror. Well, if you can class a campy actor looking for his cat (Puma!) in a graveyard while spouting nonsense actually horror. But once the opening credits have played the movie swiftly becomes a teen high school movie, so by the time the climax wrenches the viewer awkwardly back to horror we'd forgotten anything horrible was ever supposed to happen.

All of the other usual b-movie flaws are also evident - the bad acting, incredibly hittable 'comedy' characters, cheesy script. On top of that most of the college kids are played by really old actors. I'm not talking Danny and Sandy old here, these folks are literally in their forties with wrinkles and receding hairlines. It makes it very difficult to get into the story when they're so clearly not college kids.

In short don't think of watching this without the MST3K crew to help you along. It's easily one of the worst I've seen on MST3K.


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