Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Tweekums Set thirty years before the original films this instalment of the franchise looks into Sadako's life in the run-up to her death. It opens with reporter Akiko Miyaji investigating the death of journalists, including her fiancé at an ESP demonstration by Shizuko Yamamura; Sadako's mother. This leads her to Sadako who is now working as an understudy at a small theatre. Two of her fellow actresses have had strange dreams about a well… shortly afterwards one of them dies. She was the leading actress and her role is offered to Sadako. Soon people are blaming her for the death and that only increases as strange things start to happen; more people have the same strange dream and an audio tape recording has a strange sound on it. On the day of the play one of these people plays the recording of the ESP demonstration and Sadako has visions of her late mother. Things then turn more unpleasant.While this isn't quite as creepy as the original film it does provide an interesting backstory for Sadako. It was nice to see that she wasn't always the evil creature we see in the early films. The idea that there are in fact two of her; the one that is seen and another who is glimpsed or seen in pictures is intriguing. The way much of the action takes place on stage adds to the strangeness as sometimes we are watching a play and sometimes real events and it isn't always immediately obvious which. This also provides an excuse to have characters dressed more like people in Edwardian Europe than sixties Japan. As the story nears its conclusion the tension increases and even though we know that Sadako must ultimately end up in the well the final scenes are still disturbing and explain why she became a vengeful spirit. Overall I'd say that this was an effective chiller which was both interesting and somewhat disturbing at times.

Carlos Da Silva First of all i would like to say. Why is there so much hate about this prequel. One was expecting the scares when this is just before the whole cursed tape thingy happened. This back story of Sadako was interesting and amazing in my opinion. But i felt bad for her at the ending how she got brutally killed by her father which was really sad and frightening at the same time. The way Sadako was called names by almost everyone and how her evil alter would always kill others. i would like to say Well Done Japan for making such a good prequel which was interesting. the acting was good and almost very powerful indeed. Thumbs Up for me

petrelet If you think this film is going to answer all the questions about how Sadako acquired supernatural viral video production powers, it won't. It just adds more questions. It's not like a Marvel universe "origin story"! But suppose you never saw "Ringu" and came to this cold and just flowed with it, I think you would be impressed by the spine-tingliness of it all. At any moment something creepy and unexpected may happen, and generally speaking these are not clichés like cats jumping out at you or a monster suddenly attacking. They may just be things like, say, a flower falling off its stem for no reason.Throughout, the film conveys the idea that no matter how weird and dangerous you think things are, you really still have no idea. A train is coming at you, but then you realize that there aren't any tracks and it can go where it wants, and even stop acting like a train.Ayn Rand (I'm not a disciple btw) wrote something to the effect that the distinguishing feature of horror films (and what, in her opinion, made them evil and repellent) is that they convey the picture of a universe that is hostile and incomprehensible, not subject to prediction or manipulation by human intelligence. I don't think the universe really is that way, but I don't think it's evil to produce a fantasy film that shows you that kind of version of the universe for an hour and a half - as this movie effectively does.That's the really scary thing in my view. It's bad enough to have really dangerous entities going around, but it mitigates the badness if you can learn about them and then avoid them or defeat them. If Dracula is in the neighborhood, stock up on mirrors and crucifixes and summon Van Helsing! But if Sadako is in the neighborhood, you are in deep trouble. Knowing about her may have been your fatal mistake, or misfortune.

Desertman84 Ring 0 is a Japanese horror film that serves as a prequel to the film Ring. The film features Yukie Nakama,Kumiko Asou, and Tanabe Seiichi. It was directed by Norio Tsuruta, based on a screenplay,written by Hiroshi Takahashi,is based on the short story Lemonheart from the Birthday anthology by Koji Suzuki.Ring 0 provides the background story of how Sadako later became the vengeful murdering spirit. The story starts with her as a shy, somewhat withdrawn, college student who nonetheless gets involved in a drama club. The director thinks she has talent, but some of the other performers start to get jealous of the attention he gives her. Meanwhile, a reporter investigating Sadako's spiritualist mother thinks there's something very suspicious about the young woman, and arrives on campus to confront Sadako just as a series of strange deaths start sweeping through the drama club.The prequel fell short in matching the greatness of Ring.Aside from the fact that parts of the film felt draggy and it was slow on some parts,it wasn't scary and horrifying enough to become a horror classic.Aside from that,the characters aren't intriguing enough for the viewer to really care about them.It becomes a case of an "exercise" of who and how one gets killed and a matter of how daunting and horrific one gets killed or not.Too bad that a lot would have expected it to be better than Ring or at least match its greatness would definitely feel disappointed.But nevertheless,it does not fall short in entertainment as a decent horror film.