Review of The Ring Two (2005) by Lord N — 20 Jun 2010

I know I'm about to shock you all here: this movie was made to fatten the wallets of the creators. Shocking right? you can tell becasue of the absolute lack of quality of this film. But you know it's nothing new really. this is just another entry in the long list of crappy horror movies. the plot of this one is more or less the plot of the first one. cursed videotape, Samara killing people blah blah blah. They do try to go into the back story of Samara a little more which was interesting. It had some decent cheap thrills here and there. but really, it was a poorly made film that shouldn't have been made. To make matters worse though, The Ring 3 will be coming out next year. They're calling it a reboot of the series. yeesh. give it a rest already would you?

TRIVIA TIME: According to the production notes, there were bizarre incidents on set of life reflecting art. On the seventh day, the production office was discovered to have flooded overnight, the result of a burst water pipe. Water is a strong theme in the film. In response, director 'Hideo Nakata' requested a Japanese purification ceremony be carried out by a Shinto minister, but the strange incidents continued. While on location, a swarm of thousands of bees descended on the prop truck, prompting the immediate evacuation of the department, before the bees left as quick as they arrived. For no apparent reason, a five-gallon water jug burst open in the production office kitchen, one again flooding the same room that had flooded only weeks earlier. One morning on the Universal lot, a set costumer stepped out of the parking garage to discover an antlered buck charging across the asphalt in her direction. Though deer are a regular occurrence in the hills, the similarity to the deer attack in the film is uncanny.