The Ring Two. Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.(Sound Recording Review)

The Ring Two. Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. Hans Zimmer, Henning Lohner, and Martin Tillman. Decca B0004405-02.

The Ring was a nifty little horror movie from 2002, but by all accounts its sequel, 2005's The Ring Two, didn't measure up. Be that as it may, some of the music at least is up to speed, meaning it sounds pretty much like everything in the original.

Hans Zimmer, Henning Lohner, and Martin Tillman share the composing honors, and while much of it is repetitive, there are a few good new moments. The disc also gives you your money's worth, unlike so many soundtrack albums that contain maybe thirty or forty minutes tops. This one provides over an hour of music from the film, presumably most of what was there.

Things begin with a lengthy, eleven-minute intro called "The Well." Viewers who saw either Ring movie will remember that it is a young girl who was dropped down a well to die who comes back to haunt and kill people via a videotape. "The Well" sets a nice, creepy, quiet tone for what is to follow, although it goes on much too long for sustained listening. Next, we get more of the same--quiet atmospherics--in "Before You Die." Things pick up with "This Is Going To Hurt," which comes off like typical haunted-house material. Then we slip back into more of the same silently edgy music with "Burning Tree," followed ...