Word: ring
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Ring Two is set some indiscriminate time after the “events” of the first film, when an evil ghost named Samara terrorized the viewers of her brief “greatest hits” video, a tape teeming with eerie images of death and suicide. Now, our heroine Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) and her morbid young son Aidan (David Dorfman) must relocate to a small Oregon town to escape the terror of Samara, who looks, more than ever, like Cousin It from "The Addams Family." While the first film yawned its way through endless exposition, particularly...
...anything raises The Ring Two slightly above its predecessor on the horror film barometer, it’s the sequel’s gung-ho philosophy: “Forget the explanatory narrative, go for the gold!” The “gold” in this case being a plethora of seat-jumping absurdities and admittedly delicious surprises that unfortunately leads to a predictably bland conclusion. Luckily though, the scares are, for the most part, genuine enough to hold our attention...
Overall, The Ring Two is no masterpiece. But it is extremely diverting and well-made, and doesn’t pretend to be anything to be anything more than a reason to throw some popcorn tossed in the air. Considering the horror films of late, that’s saying...
Some of his points ring depressingly true. Douthat cleverly turns sex and academia into a cold calculus: attempts to glean maximum success from minimal effort...
...Assistant District Attorney Patrick Haggan said that the defendants had been recruiting homeless youth into a robbery ring...