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Dark Water 2002 2 and a half stars

    PG-13, 101 min.
Genre: Foreign / Thriller
Director: Hideo Nakata
Cast: Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno, Mirei Oguchi, Asami Mizukawa, Fumiyo Kohinata, Shigemitsu Ogi, Yu Tokui, Isao Yatsu, Chihiro Otsuka

  Yoshimi Matsubara (Hitomi Kuroki) is fighting for custody of her six-year-old daughter and moves to an apartment–complete with leaky ceiling through which a child's red bag appears followed later by a ghost. Can Yoshimi keep her wits about her and win her court case?

The Ring Two 2005 2 stars

    PG-13, 110 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Hideo Nakata
Cast: Naomi Watts, David Dorfman, Simon Baker, Elizabeth Perkins, Gary Cole, Sissy Spacek, Ryan Merriman, Emily VanCamp, Kelly Overton, James Lesure, Daveigh Chase, Kelly Stables

  Six months after Seattle journalist Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) and her son, Aidan (David Dorfman), watched and then destroyed that creepy videotape in "The Ring" (2002), they find even more evil emanating from what can only be copies of the tape.

Ringu 1998 3 stars

    N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Horror / Thriller / Fantasy / Mystery
aka: Ring

Director: Hideo Nakata
Cast: Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, Hiroyuki Sanada, Yuko Takeuchi, Hitomi Sato, Yoichi Numata, Yutaka Matsushige, Katsumi Muramatsu, Rikiya Otaka, Masako, Daisuke Ban, Kiyoshi Risho, Yurei Yanagi, Yoko Oshima, Kiriko Shimizu

  Director Hideo Nakata sets the mood for an eerie experience in this tale of fright. A video is cursed; anyone who watches it will receive a phone call within an hour, and no one will be on the line. Then, a week later, the viewer will die. After Reiko (Nanako Matsushima) views the video and finds out that people have really died, she sets out to solve the mystery before her week is up.

Ringu 2 1998 2 and a half stars

    N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Thriller
aka: Ring 2

Director: Hideo Nakata
Cast: Miki Nakatani, Hitomi Sato, Kyoko Fukada, Fumiyo Kohinata, Kenjiro Ishimaru, Yurei Yanagi, Rikiya Otaka, Yoichi Numata, Nanako Matsushima, Hiroyuki Sanada, Masako, Katsumi Muramatsu

  This is a sequel to the popular "Ringu," and the viewer must depend on what went on in the original in order to follow this film. Mai (Miki Nakatani) investigates the death of her boyfriend who, as predicted, died one week after seeing a particular video. A vengeful spirit inhabits the video, and Mai is determined to stop the killing.

Movie Quick Pick

1. Dark Water (2002)
2. The Ring Two (2005)
3. Ringu (1998)
aka: Ring
4. Ringu 2 (1998)
aka: Ring 2

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