

While investigating the horrifying death of her boyfriend, Mai Takano learns about a videotape haunted by the spirit of a disturbing girl named Sadako, which kills anyone who watches it exactly one week later. When her boyfriend’s son, Yoichi, starts to develop the same psychic abilities as Sadako, Takano must find a way to keep the boy and herself from becoming the next victims.
Direction
Nakata's water imagery reaches fetishistic, beautiful excess.
Acting
Miki Nakatani elevates thin material with pure committed panic.

Director
Hideo Nakata
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This adapts Koji Suzuki's 'Spiral' novel, not a direct sequel to his 'Ring'—explaining the jarring tonal shift and science-heavy asylum plot.