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Codex Atanicus
Codex Atanicus is a three story anthology by Spanish director Carlos Atanes. Before watching the movie I never heard of the guy, but the introduction video on the DVD by one of his regular actresses Arantxa Peña made me realize that I'm in for a hell of a ride. Experimental, bizarre, sick, strange - these are some of the words that describe the stories contained in Codex Atanicus. The anthology is opened by a 20 minute short from 1995 called Metaminds & Metabodies. I am really not into this kind of experimental videos, but I will try to summarize. It opens with a girl singing in the club. Everything looks ultra underground and the girl is connected with some wires to the walls. Strange people are watching her...
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Movie Review: Ring Two, The

Story
It takes off kinda were the first one left off, it's now some time later and Rachel (Naomi Watts) moves to Oregon with her irritating son Aidan (David Dorfman) to start a new life. But unfortunately Samara returns and messes things up again and Rachel has to find a new way to put Samara to rest once and for all.

Comments
This is actually not a remake of the Japanese Ringu 2 but instead a sequel to the The Ring, US remake of Japanese Ringu. And this somehow made it work for me on more levels than expected.

The first one, US version of The Ring was better than expected but not even comparable to the Japanese Ringu, it was good but no movie has scared me shitless like Ringu, maybe except for when you were really young and were easily scared by most horror movies but that doesn't really count.

So good thing here is that we don't really have to talk about remakes anymore, only sequels (of which most of the time might not be a good thing either but still...)

The Ring Two does unfortunately not have the dept of The Ring but is still watchable with a few good scares.

It doesn't really have the same creepy atmosphere as the first film and some stuff feels repeated. I was somewhat anxious to see The Ring Two since it's directed by original Ringu director Hideo Nakata, but even though I'm not totally disapointed I still feel it could of had some more to offer.

Naomi Watts does a good job as Rachel once again and I guess David Dorfman as Aidan does a somewhat good job too even though I totally had enough of him in the first movie, I just hate kids in movies, can't stand them.

Final Comments
In the end I think The Ring Two was totally watchablem, and kinda entertaining even though it's very forgettable, and doesn't really "stay with you" once finished.

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Ring Two, The

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MOVIE YEAR: 2005
DIRECTOR: Hideo Nakata
WRITING CREDITS: Hiroshi Takahashi, Kôji Suzuki
GENRE: Horror
CAST: Naomi Watts, Simon Baker, David Dorfman
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 128 min

RATING: 6/10

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