Rings: In the ring of evil
Rated: 5/10
The horror flag of this week comes with a lot of evil spreading the fear through a video game. Not exactly a scream this one as the fear element is slow and stealthy but it does have its moments and can be placed in the middle of the ladder when it comes to sibling assessment of the Ring series.
It all starts with a nose-bleeding hyper flier who tells his neighbour on a flight to New Jersey about feeling squeamish after watching a video a girl at the party gave him before vanishing into the blue. And just then, slush flows into the plane, there is a scary girl emanating out of the insides of the wiring and then the plane crashes.
For starters, it does makes you wonder what’s up next and it is this gentle suspense that keeps you on tenterhooks despite the long winded ghost chase that a teen couple is put on.
It all ends up where it shouldn’t and that too gives you the heebie-jeebies. The premise of the film and the horror-makers in the show are all familiar and in familiar territory. Apparently good men doing horrible things in the past and the repercussion being borne by the far removed generation next, familiar, isn’t it? Familiar yes but it is still worth one see.
Source: Sunday Pioneer, 12 February, 2017