Did you know "The Ring" was based on a novel? Did you know film adaptations of both "Ring" and its sequel novel "Spiral" were released ON THE SAME DAY in Japan? Did you know the latter went so poorly but the American remake succeeded so wildly that now, confusingly, there are THREE SEPARATE FILMS that could conceivably call themselves "the second Ring movie"?
We call upon the services of the GREAT JOE GIBSON! to help us unpile the third and final Second Ring Film, Hideo Nakata's "The Ring Two", a film that sees the question "in a franchise with exactly one film's worth of good story, what can you fill a second film with?" and answers it with "definitely betray all the distinctive things about the first film, and to fill in the rest, I've got it: CHILD ABUSE!"
JOIN US. This was a very fun one as well go deep on Samara's final-ish ride.
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