By Susanne Robbins

The choice to bring in Hideo Nakata to direct this film was the best thing they could do. The film moves in a much faster pace than the original. I was totally sucked in, I jumped and screamed more than I ever did in the original. With so many "Horror" movies out lately and so many of them just completely missing the boat, The Ring Two is a welcome cure. We have already seen what happens when you see the tape, this was covered in the first film. What we now get to see is what happens when Samara gets you first hand. It ain't pretty people.

If you love horror movies there are a few things you know. Always investigate a strange noise. If you are a virgin, try and keep it that way or you are dead. Last but not least, most sequels are made purely for money and they normally suck. This was my attitude walking into the screening of The Ring Two. I liked the first one, I thought it was a little slow in parts, but overall not too shabby. I wasn't sure how they were going to bring that lovable little Samara back, after all we miss that little girl.

So here it goes, beware the spoilers ahead: Rachel and Aidan have relocated to a small town, in order to put the past behind them. As we all know that really can't happen or we would not have had this sequel. Low and behold a tape has popped back up again. A young man is trying to get his unsuspecting girlfriend to watch the flick in order to save his own life. The only flaw....how do they know you have to show the movie to someone in order to save your life.....ok we'll move on. News of the boys death reaches Rachel and she finds that the tape is in her small little town. However, upon destroying the tape we find that she actually somehow released little Samara into the wild, or better yet right into Aidan. Aidan begins acting strange, well stranger than normal, his body temperature begins dropping. Rachel has no idea what has happened but begins to suspect Samara. Rachel and Aidan, hoping to run from Samara, as she has basically taken over their home, enlist the help of her hottie new friend at the Paper, Max (Simon Baker).

He decides that maybe Rachel doesn't have the best intentions for her son when he walks in on her trying to drown him. So he decides Aidan needs to see a doctor and takes him to the hospital. Seeing the burn marks from Samara on his body, the hospital assumes it is child abuse. Since Rachel isn't exactly allowed to be alone with little Aidan/Samara she decides to leave and dig a little deeper into Samara's past. This brings her back to the Morgan Ranch, with one of the best cameo's I have encountered in a long time. Gary Cole pops up as a Real Estate agent trying to sell the old Morgan Ranch. He provides a little comic relief for the film, especially when he tries to explain where the previous owners have ended up. Rachel finds the information she was looking for and hunts down Samara's mom, played by the extremely creepy looking Sissy Spacek. Not sure who the crazier one was in that family. She returns to find that Aidan/Samara has released himself from the hospital and is now calling her Mommy. Bad sign right there, we all know he only calls her Rachel. She is now faced with either having to raise the demon child or find a way to get her son back. I won't tell you what she decides or how she does it, cause then I give away the end of the movie, and I hate it when reviewers do that.