The Ring Movies: Rings Timeline
Rings (2017) is an alternate sequel to The Ring (2002), completely ignoring the events of The Ring Two. Set over a decade after the original, the film follows a new generation encountering Samara's curse as it spreads through a college cult called "Rings," where members watch and share the cursed video.
This timeline introduces new mythology, including a movie within the movie that reveals previously unseen footage and explores Samara's origins through her biological father, a priest played by Vincent D'Onofrio. The film modernizes the curse for the digital age, showing it spreading online and becoming viral in both senses of the word.
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The Ring
A journalist investigates an urban legend about a cursed videotape that kills anyone who watches it within seven days. After viewing the tape herself, she has one week to solve the mystery and save her own life.
Rings
Julia discovers her boyfriend has watched a cursed videotape that kills viewers after seven days, leading her to uncover a terrifying new layer to the deadly urban legend when she tries to save him.
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David Lynch
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Unbreakable
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Voodoo
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