The Ring Two

Naomi Watts. Dreamworks, 2003

Sequels fall into two categories: those that expand upon the story, and make it greater, and those that TRY to expand upon the story and simply ruin it. This movie is the latter.

Completely. The first Ring was great in that it was totally unexpected ending and a shift in the mystery that totally threw the viewer off-kilter.

This one simply tries to "add to the history" but winds up taking the "hook" (the girl coming out of the TV) and repeats it over and over again until it ceases to be anything frightening at all and simply becomes pat - almost as though it's spoofing itself.

The only horrifying part is when Samara takes over the kid - and then you basically just have the "creepy kid" movie, which always freaks me out.

Oh yeah, and how Samara makes Elizabeth Perkins whack herself - that was pretty creepy.

But other than that, fairly tame.


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