Written by David Loucka, Jacob Estes & Akiva Goldsman.
Directed by F. Javier Guitierrez.
★
Few things are more frustrating than watching a sequel and knowing - knowing! - that you yourself could have written a better story.
This is basically The Ring 3. Samara is still having her video passed around, but now in a world where people can copy and send MPEGs instead of VHS tapes.
It commits the cardinal sin of horror films. It is never at any point scary. It goes through the motions people jumping when they don't notice someone behind them and whatnot, but it's like no one involved knows why that's scary. It has the feel of watching a live sitcom where the expected laugh-track is broken. This is a horrorcom that pauses for screams that never come. It even has a "twist" that it gives away half an hour before we get to the reveal.
The acting is terrible, the direction is unimaginative, and it's a real shame that they'd take a franchise with potential like this and kill it.
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