The Ring Two (2005)

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 Amazon.com

Another Hollyweird disaster.

Everything that made the original Ring so great is missing in this Americanized sequel.
The suspense? Gone.
The horror? Gone.
The atmosphere? Gone.
Interesting story?
Good acting?
Good script?
Good music?
Gone!
Gone!!
Gone!!!
One of the worst sequels in recent years.
I hope the series is done after this disaster.
AVOID!!!!!!!!!!
June 25, 2008

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. May 1, 2008

Grate moovee

I've seen some crappy movies in my time, but damn....

The kids and I have developed something of a routine since "The Ex" departed the scene, one of these routines is to go to the Elvis Cinema (Yes, it is called the Elvis Cinema, one of many here in the Denver area) and catch a two-dollar movie every once in a while.

We went to see The Ring Two yesterday and we were amazed at how crappy a movie can be. As Clint, my son, said, "That wasn't worth the four-dollars-apiece we spent on this movie."

Normally, when we see a National Treasure type mess on the silver screen, we usually get our kicks out of making fun of it. This more than makes up for the little amount of money that we spent on going to see it. Such is not the case in The Rings Two.

Note: It is said that when one experiences extreme pain or abuse, one will withdraw into a world that is of the creation of one's own mind. This withdrawal is known in the world of psychology as Dissociation. It is often manifested as another place like a house or a park or something. I found out that my dissociative place is The Little Pink Room With Flowers on the Walls.

Synopsis:

- Waves are shown from an overhead point of view. Waves are washing over the shore for no known reason at all. This could possibly be foreshadowing a large plumbing accident. I don't remember. Somewhere in the beginning of the movie a teenager gets killed and is left with a grotesquely disfigured face. We figured that he must have been exposed to the daily cuts of this movie prior to its release.
We find out that the main character and her kid are the ones from the previous movie. At this point the audience swells with an almost erotic sense of apathy.

The movie continues on...

- Somwhere along th line, Mom burns a video tape that has the famed "You're gonna die in seven days" footage. The kid takes a bunch of pictures of the little girl and the little boy is then mistaken for a priest. There is a carnival with marbles. Then...

- The Little Pink Room With Flowers on the Walls.

- The bathtub and all the water coming out of the door. An upside-down swimming pool dominates the scene, I think, and then...

- The Little Pink Room With Flowers on the Walls.

- Some other stuff happens, I don't know...

- The Little Pink Room With Flowers on the Walls.

In fact, The Little Pink Room With Flowers on the Walls occupied most of the time that the movie played. I seem to remember that there was another guy that was killed and that Sissy Spacek was in the movie but that's about it.

Oh, yeah, and there was a close up of some furniture.

We decided that the credits were not credits at all but that they were simply a list of people who were shot after the movie was completed.

Really grate moovee...

Kill me. April 22, 2008

Sets a record with Naomi's face

This movie sets the record for so much of a movie consisting of the close-up of one person's face. In this case, it's a good thing, for Naomi is so pretty, and it is Naomi Watts that was having her face in close-ups always on the screen. It's funny, however, but the girl that I saw this movie with in a theater wasn't as impressed with the movie-- or with Naomi Watts-- as I was, for she spent much of her time outside smoking cigarettes. But, I still loved the movie. April 20, 2008

As good as the first

This is a true sequel, meaning it picks up immediately where its predecessor left off, and unless you've seen the original, you probably won't enjoy this one as much.

Similar to the original, the film has a creepy atmosphere and images, great acting, and a subtle, psychological terror rather than gore. While the original focused on the deadly videotape, this one quickly dispenses with the tape as a plot device and focuses on two things: the relationship between mother and son (excellent portrayals by both Naomi Watts and David Dorfman) and the history of Samara (the creepy girl) and what her malfunction is. As in the previous film, Rachel plays detective and tracks down the history of Samara, the story of her birth and her mother, and the clue to this creepy girl's attempts to possess her son. The special effects are wonderfully done (look for the water on the ceiling one), as are the lighting, directing, scares- just about everything.

The DVD comes with some good extras, such as a special effects feature and interviews with the cast. Don't miss "Rings", a 15-minute film that explains what happens between the 2 movies.

Monsters, creatures, vampires- not scary to me. But there's something about that little wet girl crawling out of the TV that just- uggggg. April 19, 2008

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