This article is
about the 2005 American horror film. For the Japanese film, see Ring 2. For the road in
Finland, see Ring II.
The Ring Two is a 2005 American psychological
thriller film, and a sequel to the 2002 film The Ring,
which was a remake of the 1998 Japanese film Ringu. Hideo Nakata, director of the original
Japanese film Ringu, on
which the American versions are based, directed of this film in place of Gore Verbinski.
This
sequel is not based on any of the Japanese sequels to Ringu and is an original storyline,
continuing from The Ring.
The movie
was filmed in Astoria, Oregon and Los Angeles,
California. It was released on March 18, 2005 and although it was
met by generally negative critical reception, it opened in the United States
with a strong US$35 million its first weekend, more than
doubling the opening weekend of The
Ring. Its final $76 million domestic gross was less than the original's
$129 million, but it took $85 million internationally, for a total gross of
$161 million.
PLOT
Approximately six months after
the events of the first movie,
Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) and her
son Aidan (David Dorfman) have
moved from Seattle to the quiet coastal community of Astoria, Oregon. Rachel begins a new job at
the Daily Astorian, a local newspaper, working
for Max Rourke (Simon Baker). Before
long, there is news of a teenage homicide in town. Rachel investigates, finding
the dead boy's face shows a deformed expression of horror just like the
previous victims of Samara Morgan's cursed tape. Upon finding the
boy's corpse, she also has a vision of Samara grabbing her and declaring
"I found you." She goes to the police station and persuades the girl
who witnessed the boy's death to tell her where the tape is. She takes the tape
deep into the woods and burns it.
Aidan has
a dream in which he comes down to the T.V. room without Rachel home, and is
pulled into the screen by Samara when the videotape starts. Back at home, Aidan
starts to develop hypothermia, and his body is suddenly covered
with bruises. At a county fair, Aidan takes pictures of himself in the bathroom
mirror, with a blurred Samara standing behind him. His behavior grows
increasingly odd and distant, and while Rachel and Aidan drive home from the
fair, deer attack their car, nearly killing them. This event was apparently
mysteriously foreseen by Aidan, who warned Rachel of impending danger seconds
before the deer came out of nowhere. Strange occurrences within their house
(including visions of Samara, a burn mark in the wall which resembles the tree
from the cursed video, and seeming poltergeist
activity) frighten Rachel, leading her and Aidan to flee. Rachel
subsequently asks Max if he can take care of the increasingly sick Aidan at his
house.
Max says
that Aidan's condition merits a trip to the hospital, but Rachel, knowing that
his illness is unnatural, is adamant that traditional doctors cannot help him.
When Rachel attempts to give Aidan (who suddenly develops a mysterious fear of
water) a warm bath at Max's, a series of paranormal events leads to Rachel
seeing Aidan's body replaced by Samara. Max walks in when she attempts to drown
Samara, and sees her trying to drown Aidan instead. Suspicious, he insists on
taking Aidan to the hospital against her wishes, stating, "You wanted my
help, now you're getting it."
Based on
the bruises on Aidan's body, the hospital staff, particularly psychiatrist Dr.
Emma Temple (Elizabeth
Perkins), suspect child abuse on Rachel's part, because Rachel
reveals she suffered from postpartum
depression, and won't allow her to be near her son. Desperate for
answers, Rachel flees the hospital and returns to the Morgan Ranch (which is
now being sold) to dig deeper into Samara's past. Knowing that Samara was not
Richard and Anna Morgan's biological child, she tracks down Samara's birth
mother, Evelyn (Sissy Spacek), who
tried to drown Samara as an infant and has been living in a mental
institution ever
since. Meanwhile, Samara (in Aidan's body) inflicts a psychic assault on Dr. Temple, forcing Dr.
Temple to commit suicide so that Samara (in Aidan's body) can escape the
hospital.
Evelyn
advises Rachel to "listen to your baby" when she seeks advice on how
to deal with Samara. Max goes to Rachel's house to check on her, only to find
Aidan watching TV alone. He attempts to surreptitiously capture Aidan on film
in order to reveal Samara, as Aidan had before Samara possessed him.
Aidan/Samara notices the camera. When Rachel returns home, she finds Max's car
parked outside and his dead body inside with the same warped expression of
Samara's other victims. Disturbed and unsure of what to do, Rachel then goes
inside to face her possessed son.
Rachel
falls asleep and dreams of Aidan telling her how to release Samara from his
body. After waking, Rachel tells Aidan/Samara that he should go to sleep. Aidan
responds that he never sleeps. She crushes sleeping pills in a sandwich, and
after eating, Aidan falls asleep.
Rachel
fills the upstairs bathtub with water and holds an unconscious Aidan
underwater. Aidan suddenly wakes up, telling Rachel that he is still Aidan.
Rachel then drowns Aidan and Samara's spirit leaves his body, and Rachel is
then able to revive him. However, Samara attempts to come back into the house
through the TV set. Rachel grabs onto Samara as she is emerging, and is pulled
into Samara's well inside the world of the cursed video. Looking up, Rachel
realizes that the well lid is always left open. Rachel begins climbing the side
of the well. Halfway up, Samara emerges from the water below and also ascends
in a very inhuman fashion. Rachel climbs out of the well just as Samara cries
'"Mommy!"' in a deep voice. Rachel responds angrily that she's not
her mother and pushes the lid shut, trapping Samara in the well.
As Rachel
wanders the monochromatic world of the cursed tape, she hears
Aidan's voice and walks toward it, only to come to the cliff where Anna Morgan
jumped to her death. She hears Aidan calling her name below. Determined to
follow Aidan's voice, Rachel jumps off the cliff and ends up back in her living
room with Aidan, where they embrace. Aidan calls Rachel '"Mommy"',
and she asks him to just call her Rachel. The film ends when the camera then
views the street and the sky, where a crescent moon can still be seen. The film then
flickers out.
CAST AND
CHARACTERS
·
Naomi Watts as Rachel
·
Simon Baker as Max
·
David Dorfman as Aidan
·
Elizabeth
Perkins as Dr. Emma
Temple
·
Gary Cole as
Martin Savide
·
Sissy Spacek as Evelyn
·
Ryan Merriman as Jake
·
Emily VanCamp as Emily
·
Kelly Overton as Betsy
·
Alexander Ludwig as Young voice phone
·
James Lesure as Doctor
·
Mary Elizabeth
Winstead as Young
Evelyn (only in unrated version)
·
Daveigh Chase as Samara Morgan (archive footage)
·
Kelly Stables as Samara's ghost
RELEASE
In the Unrated Edition DVD release, a few extra scenes were included that were not in
the theatrical release. These scenes included conversations with Rachel's new
neighbor (and neighborhood gossip), numerous additions in which Max shows a
romantic interest in Rachel, more scenes with Samara prior to her possession of
Aidan (including one in which she is shown to enter him in the restroom at the
local fair), and the short film Rings (which
was also included on a special edition of The Ring released just before The
Ring Twoarrived in
theaters). A scene in the theatrical cut in which Aidan first encounters a deer
while wandering the local fair (prior to the deer attack) has also been removed
from this version. Also, some musical cues were changed such as when Samara
leaps out of the well in the opening scene.
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