As you can see above, that doesn't exactly go according to plan and the girl is free.
She ends up in a Hospital and people are looking into the incident, since apparently 5 people died in it.
Don't get used to these Cops/Detectives- they soon vanish from the Plot.
The young Doctor's brother happens to be a would-be YouTube (not named) sensation.
Desperate for the clicks, he VLogs himself at the site of the fire...and vanishes.
Is this based on Logan Paul's incident in the Suicide Forest? Maybe.
The Doctor realizes that something is up with the kid and weird stuff starts to happen at the Hospital.
She does 'scared eyes' very well, you have to give her that.
She has to team up with her Brother's Producer/Promoter/Manager to solve his disappearance. Can they find him? Can they save him?
Or will Sadako rise once again and take out anyone she wants for arbitrary reasons?
To find out, watch the Film. It's 'around' if you know where to look, but support the official release when and if it comes.
A bit different, but is it enough. After doing what feels like 20 Ring-related Films, it was nice to see something different. There is no cursed tape. There's not really a well. There's not even an eventually-proven-to-be-evil father figure either. Is this Film fresh? Kind of. Despite feeling different than the rest of the Series, it is still pretty standard J-Horror stuff. There's a woman who's constantly in some sort of peril from a ghost. There's still an evil-looking kid. There's still a ghost lurking around all corners. They do, thankfully, update some things here on the surface to freshen things up. For instance, the Brother is a YouTube sensation (of sorts)- that's new and topical. The tricky thing for me is that I'm not sure if they are expanding the story of Sadako or partially-rewriting it. The infamous Well now seems to be a cliff side cave and there's some mythos about 'the spirit of dead children' at the site. In the Ring story proper, Sadako evolves beyond the tape to the written word and it eventually leads to some sort of virus, going in a more sci-fi direction. The Films just can't escape the Horror roots, however, and keep circling back. Ironically, the Story that turns it more Sci-Fi is called 'Loop,' but they keep looping back to the first story. As far as J-Horror, there's not much new here, but nothing is done wrong. As far as Ring Films go, it is nice to see some diversity of content. After all, the last thing they want to do is look like a fool...
An interesting Film that is thankfully not just a retread of familiar material. It just isn't as groundbreaking or unique as you'd expect from the return of the original Director to the Series.
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