2017 · horror · supernatural · revenge
Rings
Directed by F. Javier Gutiérrez1h 42m2017
Julia becomes worried about her boyfriend Holt when he explores the dark urban legend of a mysterious videotape said to kill the watcher seven days after viewing. She sacrifices herself to save her boyfriend and in doing so makes a horrifying discovery: there is a "movie within the movie" that no one has ever seen before.
Our read: Rings (2017) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · supernatural · revenge entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / supernatural, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
Watching Rings tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
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Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
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How Rings feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want cursed-tape lore expanded, even if the franchise magic has mostly faded.”
Skip it tonight — You need tight horror; this sequel drags and rarely justifies its mythology.
Eight films that feel like this one.
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