Twenty years after he terrified us all with the original Ring, director Hideo Nakata is back and he’s bringing his franchise icon along with him in Sadako, a brand new Ring film that’s set to premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival later this month. The film is already in Japanese theaters, but we’ve got the latest trailer for you today.
Here’s what the festival shared about the film:
“A young girl with amnesia is admitted to a Tokyo hospital’s psychiatric wing. Raised in secrecy, she barely managed to survive a fire started by her mother who, because of the former’s telekinetic powers, believed her to be the reincarnated Sadako. Psychologist Mayu Akikawa quickly grows fond of her, seeing herself reflected in her solitary past, a lifetime of loneliness. Meanwhile, Mayu’s brother Kazuma, a producer of absurd online videos, attempts to boost his viewership by broadcasting an excursion into the burned ruins of the girl’s house, when he suddenly disappears. Alarmed by the last-seen images of her only family and by several supernatural events linking her new patient to Sadako’s curse, Mayu sets off in search of Kazuma.”
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The original Japanese film franchise began with Hideo Nakata’s Ring back in 1998, an adaptation of Koji Suzuki’s tale of a cursed video and a creepy girl in a well, Sadako Yamamura.
