Terrifying us all in the later 90s and early 2000s, the Ring franchise films were many movie fans’ first contact with Japanese horror.
Emphasising dread and isolation over simple shock and gore, the original 1998 Japanese film, and American remake and sequel horrified viewers.
The premise was simple: watch a short video and in seven days you end up dead.
The execution scared people witless. The image of Samara crawling out of the television screen has stuck with viewers for well over a generation.
So after 11 years, we’re going to bring back that pant-shitting fear with a new film in the Ring canon dubbed “Rings”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOH3ORdVmk8
The third film in the American version of events, IMdb has the plot thusly:
A young woman becomes worried about her boyfriend when he explores a dark subculture surrounding a mysterious videotape said to kill the watcher seven days after he has viewed it. She sacrifices herself to save her boyfriend and in doing so makes a horrifying discovery: there is a “movie within the movie” that no one has ever seen before.
Sounds scary enough, as the chilling tape gets updated for the internet era. There’s a whole lot of body horror and things to make your shake your head in the new trailer.
Starring Alex Roe, Johnny Galecki, Aimee Teegarden, Bonnie Morgan and Vincent D’Onofrio, without spoiling things too much, if that final trailer beat is anything to go by, Rings will be a new kind of “Do Not Want” come its UK release on 31 October.
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