Tsutomu Hanabusa's 'Sadako 3D 2', which marks yet anther official installment in the J-horror 'Ringu' series, is set for a Western home release next week. Unfortunately we never got to see the 3D theatrical version on these shores and it doesn't look like it's getting the 3D Blu-ray treatment either but I'm sure we'll be able to watch the new release and pinpoint exactly where the out-of-screen action was meant to be. The English subtitled version of the sequel lands on DVD and Blu-ray from 28 February 2014 and stars Miori Takimoto, Satomi Ishihara, Koji Seto, Yusuke Yamamoto and Kokoro Hirasawa. You can check out the trailer below....
- 2/18/2014
- Horror Asylum
We all know that the makers of Ringu went to the well once too often, but that hasn't stopped the series from making shed loads of money. So here we are, for better or for worse, anticipating the DVD and Blu-Ray release of Sadako 3D 2. After reviving the franchise using 3D technology in 2012, director Hanabusa Tsutomu is back to give audiences another dose of one of Japan's most famous ghosts in 3D! Set five years after the events of Sadako 3D, Sadako 3D 2 offers a new tale of terror involving Sadako, the vengeful ghost that comes with a cursed video. Once again, Hanabusa uses the 3D effects to his advantage, immersing the audience into the world of the film and forcing them to confront the terror face-to-face. We're yet to watch the original 3D entry at 24Fps but we're big fans of the original trilogy, but fans of...
- 2/17/2014
- 24framespersecond.net
It’s hard to believe that Sadako has been horrifying moviegoers in one medium or another for over 20 years. Although she disappeared for a brief period during the 2000s, the little girl from the well is back in full swing. Tsutomu Hanabusa’s follow-up to last year’s “Sadako 3D” is getting ready to invade theaters across Japan next month. Judging from the trailer, the sequel isn’t deviating too far from the stuff audiences encountered in the reboot. Is that a bad thing? Well, that depends on what you’re looking for in a horror movie. If long black hair, the internet, and jump scares amuse you, then “Sadako 3D 2″ will probably fit the bill. The franchise only bears a passing resemblance to Hideo Nakata’s 1998 classic, but I guess the series is trying to appeal to a new generation. For better or for worse. Here’s what...
- 7/8/2013
- by Todd Rigney
- Beyond Hollywood
A new trailer is here for the sequel to the insipid Sadako 3D (review), and it's filled with little girls, long black hair, and really cheesy pop music. Remember when Ring was scary? Sadako 3D 2 opens in Japanese theatres on August 30th.
Directed by Tsutomu Hanabusa, Sadako 3D 2 -- set five years after Sadako 3D -- stars Miori Takimoto as a clinical psychologist raising her four-year-old niece, whose mother died in childbirth. The cursed online video clip reappears, and strange things begin to occur around the young girl.
Ring author Kôji Suzuki tackled the writing duties on this latest entry and is the only reason we're even moderately interested in this could-be abomination.
Synopsis
Fuko Ando (Miori Takimoto), a 24-year-old graduate student in psychology, is tasked to care for her 4-year-old niece. Soon mysterious events begin to occur around her niece. Fuko Ando then learns of an incident...
Directed by Tsutomu Hanabusa, Sadako 3D 2 -- set five years after Sadako 3D -- stars Miori Takimoto as a clinical psychologist raising her four-year-old niece, whose mother died in childbirth. The cursed online video clip reappears, and strange things begin to occur around the young girl.
Ring author Kôji Suzuki tackled the writing duties on this latest entry and is the only reason we're even moderately interested in this could-be abomination.
Synopsis
Fuko Ando (Miori Takimoto), a 24-year-old graduate student in psychology, is tasked to care for her 4-year-old niece. Soon mysterious events begin to occur around her niece. Fuko Ando then learns of an incident...
- 7/5/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Tsutomu Hanabusa's 'Sadako 3D 2' has slipped into post-production ready to scare up more audiences and dragging elements and characters from Koji Suzuki's original novel screaming into the 21st Century. This is the sixth outing for the 'Ringu'-related universe which follows-up last years re-emergence of the terrifying Sadako. And now the sequel, which will combine a new smartphone app to coincide with the release so audiences can truly become emerged into the world of little Sadako, has got itself a full official Japanese trailer. The sequel stars Miori Takimoto, Satomi Ishihara, Koji Seto, Yusuke Yamamoto and Kokoro Hirasawa and will hit Japanese theatres on 30 August. Head below for the trailer and more on the new technology....
- 7/5/2013
- Horror Asylum
We have news from our Beating a Dead Horse Department: The sequel to the insipid Sadako 3D (review), which has been cleverly titled Sadako 3D 2, will be giving new meaning to the old telephone slogan "Reach out and touch someone" when it slinks into Japanese theatres on August 30th.
THR reports that the flick will be shown in a “smartphone 4D” version in Japan with a free app delivering vibration, flash, and sound special effects as well as extra visuals on mobile handset screens for the latest installment of horror series The Ring.
Instead of the usual warning to switch phones off before screenings, audiences will be asked to keep them turned on to experience what the company promoting the film says will be the world's first-ever smartphone 4D effects. Full details of the effects are not being released, but there are hints that the app may also become active outside of screenings,...
THR reports that the flick will be shown in a “smartphone 4D” version in Japan with a free app delivering vibration, flash, and sound special effects as well as extra visuals on mobile handset screens for the latest installment of horror series The Ring.
Instead of the usual warning to switch phones off before screenings, audiences will be asked to keep them turned on to experience what the company promoting the film says will be the world's first-ever smartphone 4D effects. Full details of the effects are not being released, but there are hints that the app may also become active outside of screenings,...
- 7/2/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
You can’t keep a ghost down. Especially a pissed off ghost girl. Hell hath no fury, and all of that. Sadako, thought dead in, er, the 50 other movies about her, is back. Again. She stalked the Internets in last year’s “Sadako 3D” (read our review of that film here), and is back once again in “Sadako 3D 2″. Hey, it’s not like the Japanese film industry is any different from Hollywood, you know. If it makes money, they’ll keep doing it. “Sadako 3D 2″ is directed by Tsutomu Hanabusa, who also helmed last year’s reboot of the franchise. The two films have some good pedigree behind them, though. Kôji Suzuki, who wrote the book that was turned into the “Ring” movies, is back to write the “Sadako” films. So if nothing else, there are those very solid ties to the original characters here. The first...
- 4/26/2013
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
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