: The Ring Two
I was not expecting this to be as good as the first one and I hadn’t heard positives about it in the theatres (though I hadn’t read any particular reviews or anything), but it turned out to be pretty good. It mostly reminded me how excellent the original one was: very intelligent despite the gimmicky premise. This one is similarly twisted, but has some intelligent logic in the story. In this case, Samara, the demon girl in the well from the first film, wants to take over our heroine’s son to use his body and escape her hell, and get her revenge as well. The mom and son have moved to Astoria, Oregon (very cool coastal town a couple hours from where I live) but Samara finds them. Again most of the horror is subtle mind tricks, but it’s effective, and the film feels dreadful even when it’s showing scenes of sunlight and beauty. Ultimately this film isn’t as good as the first one — it unfortunately deteriorates to typical horror — but it gets surprisingly close and the pyschological horror of a mother watching her son become another person is really interesting and terrifying. The performances are excellent and if you liked the first one, you should enjoy this one as well.
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