Well, I just saw Ring 2 and had to comment on this somewhat confusing film. If you're like I am, you would've forgotten to rent the original film (if you don't already own it), and, therefore, you might be confused as to what's going on with the beginning of the film. I know I haven't seen the other one since it opened, and there were confusing parts abound (like the importance of the lady's kid in the first movie).
It seems that the ghost of Samara is back to haunt the main character, Rachel, even after she finds the copy of "the film" made in the first Ring (the same one that marks people's impending doom after they watch it). This time, the ghost targets Rachel's youngster that she watches after (I forgot if she had the child or was stuck watching him, but from the way the kid acts, she might not have delivered the child). This turns the Ring story into more of a "Sixth Sense" story mixed with moods borrowed from "The Omen" and "Poltergeist." I got turned off from this similarity between the films, but there were modern movie-making oddities thrown in, like a herd of angry deer that attack Rachel's VW just after she avoids hitting one of them...basically, the writer loves terror in numbers this time around.
So I liked the haunting of the deer and the weird effects displayed inside their house as Samara has her way with Rachel's thoughts by attacking her child and their home. The story is a little stretched and unneeded, but the public probably wanted this film more than the writers, I would assume. I hope this ends the Ring fascination before it goes any farther because horror movies always fall into this trap that the Ring might go into later on (did we really need another Chucky film?). The look of how this film ends, there's no apparent continuation point, but you never know, because I guess that that there aren't enough Japanese horror movies about long, black-haired creepy-looking girls to continue on this run.
I gave it a 6/10 because of it's interest factor in where they were going with this film, but it lost a little bit by taking a bit from other films and giving it a creepy kid factor. Go check it out when you've seen the other spring-movies out now, but I wouldn't see it again.
It seems that the ghost of Samara is back to haunt the main character, Rachel, even after she finds the copy of "the film" made in the first Ring (the same one that marks people's impending doom after they watch it). This time, the ghost targets Rachel's youngster that she watches after (I forgot if she had the child or was stuck watching him, but from the way the kid acts, she might not have delivered the child). This turns the Ring story into more of a "Sixth Sense" story mixed with moods borrowed from "The Omen" and "Poltergeist." I got turned off from this similarity between the films, but there were modern movie-making oddities thrown in, like a herd of angry deer that attack Rachel's VW just after she avoids hitting one of them...basically, the writer loves terror in numbers this time around.
So I liked the haunting of the deer and the weird effects displayed inside their house as Samara has her way with Rachel's thoughts by attacking her child and their home. The story is a little stretched and unneeded, but the public probably wanted this film more than the writers, I would assume. I hope this ends the Ring fascination before it goes any farther because horror movies always fall into this trap that the Ring might go into later on (did we really need another Chucky film?). The look of how this film ends, there's no apparent continuation point, but you never know, because I guess that that there aren't enough Japanese horror movies about long, black-haired creepy-looking girls to continue on this run.
I gave it a 6/10 because of it's interest factor in where they were going with this film, but it lost a little bit by taking a bit from other films and giving it a creepy kid factor. Go check it out when you've seen the other spring-movies out now, but I wouldn't see it again.