After watching the very good original on TV a couple months ago and seeing that sequel was on TV last weekend I thought it might be like most sequels and wouldn't live up to the original, but I was wrong.
Hideo Nakata's sequel Ringu 2 is a stylish film with an excellent blend of thrills and chills, without rehashing any ideas that were in the first film. It's filled with superb imagery, good special effects, effective make-up and lots of atmosphere that is impressively imposing.
It lacks the pace of the original (in the case of the 7 days before you die) but for me I found the story more intriguing, gripping and unpredictable. This time around the haunting idea of the cursed videotape/Sakado is investigated in far more detail and it heads into different territory. I thought it was much more darker, especially the ending. With the feel of hope at the end of the first one fading away in the second film.
It's definitely one of the best recent horror sequels I've seen, but then again it doesn't feel like a sequel as it seems to fit in like it was the second half of the original's story.
I enjoyed this movie more than that of the original, but definitely hire them both out and watch them together.
4/5
Hideo Nakata's sequel Ringu 2 is a stylish film with an excellent blend of thrills and chills, without rehashing any ideas that were in the first film. It's filled with superb imagery, good special effects, effective make-up and lots of atmosphere that is impressively imposing.
It lacks the pace of the original (in the case of the 7 days before you die) but for me I found the story more intriguing, gripping and unpredictable. This time around the haunting idea of the cursed videotape/Sakado is investigated in far more detail and it heads into different territory. I thought it was much more darker, especially the ending. With the feel of hope at the end of the first one fading away in the second film.
It's definitely one of the best recent horror sequels I've seen, but then again it doesn't feel like a sequel as it seems to fit in like it was the second half of the original's story.
I enjoyed this movie more than that of the original, but definitely hire them both out and watch them together.
4/5