Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) and her son Aidan (David Dorfman) have relocated to the quaint mountain town of Asheville, where Rachel has found a new job at the local Asheville Gazette, working alongside reporter David Rourke (Simon Baker). The discovery of a local teenage homicide whilst scanning the electronic Asheville Police archives prompts Rachel to uncover the truth behind it. Before long, Rachel has linked the homicide to the mysterious videotape. Just when Rachel is within reach of uncovering the secret, she discovers that Aidan has been hospitalized - unconscious, perilously cold, and bruised. Rachel suspects this is the act of Samara Morgan, but Dr Emma Temple (Sissy Spacek) suspects otherwise. Having being blamed for child abuse and looking guilty as sin, Rachel returns to Seattle, to dig deeper into the past of the ghostly Samara. Will the secrets she uncovers solve problems, or will they end more lives?

There are several types of horror movies from the suspenseful Hitchcock films, to the slasher Freddy and Jason films, to truly scary movies. The Ring Two really doesn’t fit any of these categories, I would call it more of a creepy, super natural kind of horror film that keeps your hair standing on end but never really truly scares you or makes you jump. There is nothing wrong with this, the constant hair raising pace that the movie goes on keeps you glued to your seat all the while constantly creeping you our. The first movie had more of a could this be real kind of feeling, but since its been two years there is no longer that feeling so the movie relies more on finding ways to keep you edgy and creeped put during the film. The exploration of more of Samara’s past is a great way to pick up where the first movie left off, we know the legend of the tape now we learn more of the legend of Samara.

Naomi Watts is of course stellar once more and it is she that is forced to carry the movie and she does a real good job at it. David Dorfman on the other hand almost manages to sink the movie at times, not due to his acting or the character just simply because he has entered that awkward puberty stage and his character does not match with his performance in the first movie. The two years is clearly evident in his aging and the fact that he did not fit the role anymore. Elizabeth Perkins got a bigger role as well as she fleshes out the story of Samara and she really does play a scary ghost quite well. I’d say that the Ring Two is better than the first one because it was forced to tell more of a story since they needed to do something to continue with the movies, and again while the movie is not really that scary it is very creepy and those kinds of movies are really quite fun to watch.
4 stars out of 5