Naomi Watts investigates an evil horse girl’s haunted VHS tape while under a very literal deadline in The Ring. Alison Lang, author of Women With Guts: Horror Heroines in Film, TV and Print (and also Tara’s former roommate) joins us to discuss Amber Tamblyn’s death face, bathtubs full of black goo, and everything J-horror (the J stands for journalism).

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