Horror Extreme Movie Catalog

I am in the unique position of watching Ringu 2 without having seen the first film. But I did see both English versions of "The Ring." I liked Rikiya Otaka as Yoichi. He seemed alternately vulnerable and scary as the little boy. The sequence where he knocks the policeman down was simple but powerful. Miki Nakatani plays Mai Takano, the assistant to Hiroyuki Sanada's character. The actress seemed to play it safe and never generated a great deal of emotion despite the weird scenarios like the TV's going crazy in the mental institution. Hitomi Sato plays Masami Kurahashi who was a schoolmate under the power of Sadako. She was scary in her brief appearances. That scene where she's holding out her hand to Mai and begging for help was scary. If Mai had taken the hand, it wouldn't have surprised me to have her sucked into the TV, which might have been more interesting. Fumiyo Kohinata plays Dr. Kawajiri, the psychologist. I liked his character very much as one of the supporting roles. I thought his corpse floated on the water in a most flattering manner. Kenjiro Ishimaru played the police detective. He was interesting as the crusty gumshoe whose investigation was more barrier to Mai than help. In his flashback scenes, Hiroyuki Sanada is amazing. He won the Japanese Best Actor award for The Twilight Samurai and always gives a deep performance. For me, the weakness of the second film was that it was so dependent on the first in order to understand the story. If it'd been written to stand on its own legs a bit more, I would have been less confused. Overall, it was an effectively creepy piece. The well scenes were scary. Enjoy!

It started out pretty good...it was engrossing and interesting...then it lost all sence about the time the little boy shot a psychic blow and knocked a cop down. Then he ran like hell with his mother and somehow she gets hit by a bus...and no one gets off the bus to see what happened. The boy just watches the blood run down the street. That made no sence.

Then it went to hell in a handbaskey FAST!I honestly don't know which was more boring...the Japanese or the American versions. Or which offered the most off the wall scenerios and wanted us to believe it fit the story.