Wow, now this is the kind of news I like! For fans of the brilliant Hideo Nakata helmed j-horror ‘Ringu’, the film that single handedly kicked Japanese horror into the forefront of the genre, you’ll be pleased to hear that a new installment has been penned by Kôji Suzuki and Kadokawa Pictures are revving up ‘Sadako 3D’. Sadako of course is the creepy TV-exiting girl who literally enters your very living room after ascending out of the well where she was left for dead. And there’s even mention that the TV crawl would be featured in the brand new 3D style which should really enhance that shock even more so. No director or cast have been announced thus far. For those who are yet to uncover this great series of sinister little horrors you might want to check out ‘Ringu’, ‘Rasen’, ‘Ringu 2’ and ‘Ringu 0: Birthday’.
The original ‘Ringu’, remade by Gore Verbinski and starring Noami Watts in the English-speaking redo a few years later, went a little something like this…
“Reiko Asakawa is researching into a ‘Cursed Video’ interviewing kids about it. When her niece Tomoko dies of ‘sudden heart failure’ with a face of terror on her, Reiko investigates. Shes finds out that some of Tomoko’s friends who had been on a holiday with Tomoko the week before had died on exactly the same night at the exact same time in the exact same way. Reiko goes to the cabin where the teens had stayed and finds an ‘unlabled’ video tape. Reiko watched the tape to discover its the ‘cursed videotape’. Ex Husband Ryuji helps Reiko solve the mystery, Reiko makes a copy for him. Things become more tense when her son Yoichi watches the tape saying Tomoko had told him too. They discovery takes them to a volcanic island where they discover that the video has a connection to a Pyscic who died 30 years ago, and her child Sadako…”
More Terrifying Japanese Youngsters in ‘Sadako 3D’
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