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The Ring Two (Unrated Edition)

“The Ring” is one of the best horror movies ever made, so I had high hopes for “The Ring 2”. It’s a promising concept – Rachel and Aiden Keller (Naomi Watts and David Dorfman), having disposed of the first haunted videotape, have moved to a small town, hoping to get away from the horror. She’s working late at the local newspaper when a call comes over the scanner. A teenager is dead – and there’s something wrong with his face. Rachel rushes to the scene, steals a peek at the body and discovers that Samara is back. Rachel finds and burns the videotape, but that only seems to free Samara to come after Rachel and Aiden.

The plot seems to have a lot of holes; for example, Samara coerces a doctor into committing suicide in Aiden’s hospital room, and we never hear anything else about it. When Aiden disappears and Rachel is suspected of abusing him, the police never show up at her house. Sissy Spacek is almost wasted in a brief appearance as Samara’s birth mother. An attack against Rachel and Aiden by a mob of cartoonish CGI deer is never explained (Rachel later finds a bunch of antlers at the old Morgan family farmhouse, as if to tie it together, but it’s no adequate explanation.) Even the mood of the picture is not as eerie and frightening as the first one.

The best part of the DVD is a short film, called “Rings,” that sets up the death of the teenager at the beginning of “The Ring 2.” It establishes a fascinating cult-of-the-Ring, which is never explored in the feature. Other extras include behind-the-scenes featurettes and a few deleted scenes, most of which were cut for good reason.

Written by: Auriette Lindsey

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