Just what we need. Another fucking Ring movie. Shit.

Wondering if the curse has moved on to Blu-ray, streaming or torrents?

You could say that

Paramount

is going back to the well.

The first film was overrated and I never even saw the second one. Sort of surprises me that Paramount is going back to it again after all this time without an entry in the series. I suppose though horror films are relatively cheap to make and pretty easy to turn a profit on.

Can't be worse than The Ring Two.

Ain't that the truth. The Ring freaked me out on so many levels. I almost fell asleep during The Ring Two...

There's only been one good Ring movie, and it was the original from Japan. The Japanese sequels are awful, the American remake is bland and I hear the sequel is awful, and there's a Korean version running around that's also awful.

I did not even know that there was a second one. Reading the plot at wiki, it doesn't sound that bad.

Should Watts come back? I guess not.

Wouldn't surprise me if they make The Others 2.

I think Alan Smithee still has five copies of that cursed tape.

I'll stick to the original.

It lays waste to the remake.

Speaking of which... Verbinski has yet to make a single engaging live action film. He makes a shit ton for the studios but his work is thoroughly unengaging on every level.

While The Ring Two wasn't quite as good as it's predecessor, I still liked it enough to keep it in my collection. I'll be interested to see what they do with a 3rd installment.

A movie about a murderous VHS tape in 2014? Very timely!

The latest film in the Japanese series uses cellphone and streaming video.

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There's very good reason for that -- the original novel is fucking awful.

In the book it turns out that Sadako, the creepy ghost girl, was one of the last people in the world to contract smallpox and was confined to a remote sanitarium. One of the nurses tried to rape her, discovered she was a hermaphrodite and pushed her down a well. Somehow the smallpox virus mingled with her DNA and gained her psychic powers, which it used to imprint itself on videotapes. Anyone who watches the tapes then develops smallpox and dies exactly seven days later.

The second book gets even more ridiculous as it turns out the new smallpox virus also causes people to turn into duplicates of Sadako.

I'm not making that up.

Wow, the books sound awful. The Ring 2 isn't even on blu-ray?

Thought the American remake was slightly better than the Japanese original myself. The horse on the ferry is probably the most effective scene in any film in the series.

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The books are actually very well written and sells the ideas that seem silly when taken out of context.

Also none of these sequels are based on the books, so there's that.

Fuck prequels.

I'm REALLY hating this current trend of franchise reboots (or whatever) going back and explaining away everything that made them unique.

Man, I forgot how much I hated the early 2000s when every horror movie was a PG-13 remake of a Japanese horror movie. Thank goodness those days are over!

The Ring is a rare case where I think the American remake is better than the original.

Didn't they already have a short film called Rings set between the two American films?

Yes, there was a short on the Ring 2 DVD called Rings directed by Jonathan Liebesman (Wrath of the Titans, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) that many thought was more effective than the actual movie.

I also liked the US version better, it was visually very appealing too.

The US version of The Ring freaked me the hell out. I remember how amazed I was at the first person who told me it wasn't scary.

Count me among those who thought the American remake was better than the original, but the sequel was absolutely horrible.

And they used VHS tapes for the first one. Would never happen now.