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Come to the museum in costume or out (but hopefully in!) to celebrate Halloween with one of the greatest and scariest J-Horror films ever made. Twenty-five years ago, Hideo Nakata made audiences around the world scared of their televisions and their phones with this atmospheric spine-tingler. In it, a television journalist investigates an urban legend about a VHS tape that murders its viewers seven days after they watch it. But before she and her exorcist ex-husband can lift the curse, they’ll have to defeat Sadako, one of moviedom’s most memorable ghosts. The highest-grossing Japanese horror movie of all time, Ringu continues to shred nerves to this day. Kit Brooks, co-curator of the Sackler exhibition Staging the Supernatural: Ghosts and the Theater in Japanese Prints, will introduce the screening, highlighting the connections between Sadako and Oiwa, the terrifying vengeful ghost of Japanese folklore.(Dir.: Hideo Nakata, Japan, 1998, 96 min., DCP, Japanese with English subtitles)