Rings: A Film Review

 Film Review: Rings directed by Peter Jackson

Genre: Horror

This movie was actually fucking terrifying. The entire time I sat there, watching, begging myself to keep my eyes open so I could this review. I was drenched in sweat from the pure terror. I believe this is the thrid installment of the Rings series. Full disclosure, I did not watch the second one before this one. 

The premise of this movie franchise is that if you watch this cursed film, you get a call immediately after saying that you have seven days to live. 

The very beginning shows Samara killing a man on a plane because his seven days were up. Then it flashes forward.

Synopsis:

The scene opens where Julia and Holt are in bed, kissing each other goodbye before she helps him finish packing for college. They promise to video call every night. But, after a weird encounter with Holt's friends while in the middle of the video chat, Holt disappears. He stops answering all of Julia's texts and she doesn't have any idea about what happened to him. Later on, she has a freaky dream about Holt, which preludes a phone call from Skye, asking where Holt is... so Julia aka Jules does the logical thing and drives however far to find him. She gets into his lecture class, finds Gabriel Brown who acts like he has no idea who Holt is. Skye tries to recruit Julia into watching the Ring video, revealing that as long as you have a "tail", someone that watches the video after you made a copy, you are safe. Holt manages to save her. Samara kills Skye and (for the first time I've seen) makes a move towards someone other than the person that has watched the Ring video. She disappears. When Holt and Jules reunite, Holt and Gabriel talk... then after they're in bed, Jules watches the video. They meet up with Gabriel and discover that her video is larger than his copy, so it can't be copied. 

From then on, it's Julia thinking that Samara wants her to free her and they go on this quest like adventure to make sure that Samara has peace so that it will stop. The killing will stop. The fear and spread of the video will stop.

Overall, I think that this was a very well written movie. As previously mentioned, this definitely made me sweat and filled me with a sense of undiluted fear throughout the entire movie. I recommend watching it, although I'm curious as to how the second movie ties into all of this. It isn't very gory, much more psychological with the image and the background music.

I've never done a film review for, so I'm not exactly having my format or even what I want to say down. I hope that this does interest someone. More to come. I'm watching Berlin Syndrome right now.