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A successful journalist and single mother, Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts), moves from Seattle to the small coastal town of Astoria, Oregon. She makes the change, accompanied by her young son, Aidan (David Dorfman), for all the usual reasons. One, because now is a good time to escape from the dripping, milk-white spectre of a woman that used to rise out of a dark well and freeze the Kellers' existence into a howling wasteland of intolerable fear; and, two, because we can all use a little downsizing.
What Rachel has forgotten is that she is in the grip of a sequel, entitled "The Ring Two," and that no ghost is going to be put off his or her stroke by anything as earthbound as a switch of zip code. The initial tribulations of the Kellers were displayed in "The Ring," directed by Gore Verbinski, which came out in 2002. This was the tale of a videotape, which, once viewed, caused the viewer to die within a week--six and a half days longer, by the way, than the time it took me to slip into a vegetative state after accidentally watching a tape of "Forrest Gump." The delicious twist of "The Ring" was that in order to break the curse you had to copy the tape before your week was up and pass it on to the next benighted sucker: a conceit that not only festers with epidemic potential but has the added, wholly gratifying bonus of causing all those industry police who wag...
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