Product Description: Six months after the frightening rampage by samara & the cursed videotape that left so much death & terror in its wake rachel & her son start a new life in a small oregon town. But when evidence at a local crime scene includes a mysterious unmarked videotape rachel realizes the nightmare hasnt ended. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 05/01/2007 Starring: Naomi Watts David Dorfman Rating: Ur
Amazon.com: Most contemporary horror movies depend upon a series of sudden jolts, executed with the finesse of a cattle-prod, to keep their audiences awake. The Ring Two offers something far more interesting: A slow but relentless creepiness that might just linger in your mind when the movie is over. A few months after the events of the first Ring, journalist Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive) and her son Aidan (David Dorfman, A Wrinkle in Time) have fled to a small town on the Oregon coast to get over their awful experience with a cursed videotape. Of course, a copy of the videotape finds its way there, and soon the troubled spirit of a girl with long, face-obscuring black hair is worming her way into Rachel and Aidan's lives by worming her way into Aidan's flesh. As a story with a coherent beginning, middle, and end, The Ring Two is full of holes; but as a series of surreal and evocative images accumulating into a dislocating sense of dread, The Ring Two holds up. In fact, at one point the movie becomes so dreamlike in its flow that it verges on avant-garde. The source of this alluring eeriness is the director, Hideo Nakata, who directed the Japanese Ringu, on which The Ring was based. Also featuring Gary Cole (Office Space) and Sissy Spacek (Carrie). --Bret Fetzer
A gloomy state in a bleak mind This film is in many ways perfect as a horror film. The perfection comes from the general situation of a mother and her son. That situation is emotional since there is no father and not even a boyfriend. This delicate but extremely sensation-laden situation is invaded by the ghost of a girl who was initially doomed by her own mother to die drowned in a fountain at the hospital just after birth. The mother was stopped and the child was saved. The mother was institutionalized, but the child later committed suicide by drowning and since then is coming back to haunt someone, to invade a person who then becomes the killer. You add to that the fact television is the main tool used by this ghost to attract and penetrate, invade and possess the person who is going to be her vector to kill and you have one more haunting element. The film add to this colors and scenery. Washington state and its phenomenal, grandiose, impressive but frightening natural setting between the ocean and the mountain, with enormous bridges and a very wet climate without any real sunshine. You have the perfect situation to frighten anyone absolutely "spit"-less. Then the film works all by itself with a little help from the camera. Of course we know they are going to escape the ring, but how, and till the very last minute suspense is there telling us the mother is going to fail, the boy is going to drop out. And success is the last image of this film, not even long enough to feel relieved. Just short enough to know it is finished. Convincing and entertainingly thrilling.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, CEGID
Ring-A-Ding-Ding... THE RING TWO should have been great. It had everything going for it- Naomi Watts and David Dorfman reprise their roles, and it's helmed by the director of the japanese originals RINGU 1 AND 2. However, my hopes for a classic were soon dashed as I watched another so-so sequel unfold. Gone is the grim, cold atmosphere of impending doom that made THE RING such a wonderfully dark experience. Instead, we get a cartoonish, computer-animated deer attack and a very non-threatening Samara! I will always enjoy the first RING, long after this one fades from memory...
very good (: the ring and the ring two are my favorite scary movies! the second one is was creeper and scary than the 1st. great story line and yaaaa. idk. rofl. ummm, vote for elle!
Better Than The First!!! I enjoyed "The Ring" & whereas the sequels to such horror movies usually run out of juice with every subsequent sequel, I was very surprised to find that not only did "The Ring Two" keep up the momentum, but I actually found it better than it's predecessor. While "The Ring Two" doesn't contain as much gore & relies more heavily on the psychological aspects of the plot, the troubled Samara continues to keep up appearances in the movie giving it a nice balance of scare- & thrill-appeal.
you call this a movie This movie sucked it was like a bad remake of the gruge. This movie was not scary, why do people call movies like this scary if its not even close to being scary this was a of waste time. Just a girl that died falling in the wale and come back to kill the one's ho watches a tape of her then she crawls out the tv, its like the gruge but this is a girl comeing out the tv so this was a corney movie.
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