Rings (short film)
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| Rings | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Jonathan Liebesman |
| Produced by | Arnon Manor Jeanette Volturno |
| Written by | Ehren Kruger Jonathan Liebesman |
| Starring | Ryan Merriman Emily VanCamp Kelly Stables |
| Distributed by | DreamWorks SKG |
| Release date(s) | March 8, 2005 (USA) |
| Running time | 16 min. |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
Rings is a 2005 American horror short film. It was initially released as an extra disc with a re-release of The Ring on DVD. The events in Rings lead up to the sequel The Ring Two, on whose DVD Rings is also included as a bonus feature .
[edit] Story
Some time after the events of The Ring, Samara Morgan's videotape has spread, as each person who sees the video makes a copy and shows it to someone else. A subculture has grown surrounding the video: people wait to see how close to the seven-day deadline they can get before showing the tape to someone else. During the interval, some create videos documenting their experiences to be posted to websites devoted to the videotape phenomenon. Groups that have watched the video are called "rings."
The movie is focused on Jake, the latest member of one such ring. The ring has also recruited its next member, Timmy. After several unsettling experiences, he cracks on the sixth day, but Timmy refuses to watch the tape, leaving Jake without someone to pass the curse onto.
By the next day, he's become so desperate he tries to play the video on the display models at an electronics store, but is caught and thrown out. Finally, he thinks of Emily, a girl he goes to school with. He invites her over without mentioning the video, and an hour before the deadline, she agrees to come, leading to the opening sequence of The Ring Two.
[edit] Trivia
As viral marketing, DreamWorks created the website She Is Here, tying into the short film, which also allowed others to roleplay in the Ring universe as members of video "rings".
[edit] External links
- The Ring World - a fansite covering all aspects of Ringu works.
- the Ring AREA - Contains of the cursed videos of the Ring cycle and their scene-by-scene analyses, as well as lots of other useful information.
- She Is Here - The DreamWorks viral marketing site, now run by fans of the franchise.
- Rings at the Internet Movie Database
| The Ring Cycle |
|---|
| Novels: Ring | Spiral | Loop | Birthday |
| Japanese Films: Ring 0 | Ring | Ring 2 | Rasen |
| American Films: The Ring | Rings | The Ring Two | The Ring 3 |
| Korean Films: The Ring Virus |
| Curses: Samara Morgan | Sadako Yamamura | Eun-Suh Park | The Video | Towel-Headed Man |
| Misc: Anna Morgan | Moesko Island Lighthouse | Hideo Nakata | She Is Here | Koji Suzuki | Terror's Realm |
