Anyone Else Agree That The Ring Was Scary As F***?

I remember watching it when I was like 8. I used to looove horror movies and was generally never afraid of them... I remember back when I was like 4, my brother, dad, and I would have a nightly ritual of watching either The X Files (yea I know The X Files wasn't horror, we kinda just pretended it was so my brother wouldn't feel more like a wuss) or Chuckie but after watching the movie The Ring, all that horror-movie-loving ended. I had to get rid of the TV in my room, and because the movie The Ring and the story Bloody Mary were sort of similar, I had to get rid of my mirror too.... I even stopped watching horror movies for fear that there would be another one as equally frightening. Eventually though, I conquered my fear of little girls coming out of TVs and watched it again... but it took me like 6 years to build up the courage. So my question to you is this, were you just at traumatized as I was, or was I just too much of a pansy??? Oh and I'm back to my old horror-movie-loving self, just so you know.