The “the Ring” Series
This review contains spoilers.
Sadako and Kayako do end up in a Yuri situation with each other at the end if you think about it.
The “the Ring” Series
Rachel and Aiden trying to flee to suburbia and hide from the consequences of their actions by trying to be a Normal Family and put on brave faces for each other is a strong start. Things like Aiden’s photography hobby seeming innocent until you realise that it’s a way to check people’s faces for signs of the curse or Rachel’s severe insecurity at not being the archetypical mother figure as a way to make her son feel safe.
But they can’t keep pretending they’ve done nothing wrong when the consequences of the curse they’ve spread start to reach their safe haven.
But as the plot goes on it’s just all a bit... whatever. Samara’s new motivation seems at odds with the first film while her new backstory feels like a retread of it but with a bonus Catholicism. The idea of Rachel not fitting the typical image of motherhood is not resolved by her breaking away from that but just by fulfilling it in a different way by being a big, boring mamma bear hero.
Genuinely one of my favourite films in the series, certainly my favourite of the American ones. It has a simple premise but manages to squeeze a good bit out of it in its short runtime.
I really enjoy it imagining social consequences of the tape spreading which is something that most sequels in this series lack. The way it becomes this underground subculture onto itself, these kids trying to understand what they are experiencing but not having a clue how to investigate or interrogate it, sharing stories and recording videos of themselves, how how nasty that turns.
me: I promise I won’t go on about The Ring
me after two pints:
The Ring: Terror’s Realm documentation
The Ring: Terror’s Realm is a Dreamcast survival horror game that could be described as a bad Resident Evil clone featuring a plot where you shoot mostly ape-like monsters in a post-apocalyptic virtual reality. It’s based on the Ring series. You know, the one about about the VHS tape that kills you. I found the game and the apparent disconnect between its origins and its content fascinating and I decided to explore it and the series that spawned it. In doing so I ended up exploring the files of the game itself and having done that I decided to document some of it.
I wrote an article on The Cutting Room Floor wiki for the game and I also uploaded many models from the game to The Models Resource that can be found here.
Cáipéisí The Ring: Terror’s Realm
Is cluiċe uafáis Dreamcast é The Ring: Terror’s Realm. Is droċ-ċlón Resident Evil é agus tá sé bunaiṫe ar sraiṫ Ring (An sraiṫ a ḃfuil an téip VHS marfaċ aici). Tá sé ana-ḋifriúil leis an scannán clúiteaċ agus ḃí suim agam níos mó a ḟoġlaim faoin gcluiċe seo. D’ḟéaċ mé tríd na coṁaid an cluiċe agus ṫaifead mé iad.
Scríoḃ mé alt ar an vicí The Cutting Room Floor faoin cluiċe agus d’uaslódáil mé saṁlaċa ón cluiċe go The Models Resource anseo.