The thing with horror franchise is… first and foremost if the first one was a huge hit, the followings are usually a letdown that do not live up to its debut. “The Ring” is one of the horror franchise that has a new sequel movie released this year called “Rings”. How does it fare compared to the first one? Or even the original “The Ring” that hails from Japan? We had a chance to watch the movie first and we would give you a glimpse of what “Rings” could offer. The Ring stories center around an urban legend about a cursed VHS tape, that if someone watches it, and receives a mysterious phone call afterwards, that person will be dead or missing. In the remake version of The Ring that was released in 2002, the vengeful spirit of Samara Morgan haunts those who watch the VHS. With the same concept, in the sequel, director F. Javier Gutiérrez tried to modernize the curse concept to follow the latest technology’s trend.
Since it’s 2017, it’s common that the trend of VHS has died down. It means that during the course of fifteen years, Samara hasn’t killed anybody since no one watches the cursed video tapes. So it’s only fair that the story begins with a vintage enthusiast and a biology professor named Gabriel (Johnny Galecki) finds the cursed cassette tape in a garage sale. After watching the video, he receives a cryptic phone call from a girl who whispers “seven days”. As a scientist, initially he does not believe that the urban legend is true. He wants to prove it by digitizing the video tape and let his pupils watch them. The curse is soon passed on to Gabriel’s pupils and the grand plan is to assign another person so the curse will be passed on without Samara having to take any victim. But, the plan fails as soon as those 7 first pupils experience hallucination, and delirium with the figure of Samara keeps haunting them everywhere.
Reporter: Audy Prasetya/Editor: Novita Widia