Rings is a 2005 American horror short film. It was initially released as an extra disc with a re-release of The Ring on DVD. The events in Rings lead up to the sequel The Ring Two. Merriman in the 2001 made-for-television film, The Luck of the Irish Ryan Earl Merriman (born April 10, 1983) is an American actor. ... Emily Peyton VanCamp (born May 12, 1986) is a Canadian actress. ... Kelly Stables Kelly Stables (born 26 January 1984 in Saint Louis, Missouri) is an American actress that played the role of Samara Morgan (in the well) on The Ring (2002), Rings (2005); and also as Samara (off-tape) in The Ring Two (2005). ... DreamWorks, L.L.C., doing business as DreamWorks SKG, is a Big Ten studio in the United States of America which develops, produces, and distributes films, video games, and television programming. ... March 8 is the 67th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (68th in Leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... This is a list of film-related events in 2005. ... DVD cover showing horror characters as depicted by Universal Studios. ... Short subject is an American film industry term that historically has referred to any film in the format of two reels, or approximately 20 minutes running time, or less. ... The Ring is a 2002 American film, a remake of the Japanese horror mystery Ring (1998). ... DVD-R writing/reading side DVD (also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ... A sequel is a work of fiction in literature, film, and other creative works that is produced after a completed work, and is set in the same universe but at a later time. ... The Ring 2 redirects here. ...

Story

Some time after the events of The Ring, Samara Morgan's videotape has spread, as each person who sees the video makes a copy and shows it to someone else. A subculture has grown surrounding the video: people wait to see how close to the seven-day deadline they can get before showing the tape to someone else. During the interval, some create videos documenting their experiences to be posted to websites devoted to the videotape phenomenon. Groups that have watched the video are called "rings." The Ring is a 2002 American film, a remake of the Japanese horror mystery Ring (1998). ... Samara Morgan Samara Morgan is a character in the 2002 movie, The Ring. ... A blank videotape such as this was the carrier for the Ring Virus curse. ... As understood in sociology, anthropology and cultural studies, a subculture is a set of people with a distinct set of behavior and beliefs that differentiate them from a larger culture of which they are a part. ...

The movie is focused on Jake, the latest member of one such ring. The ring has also recruited its next member, Timmy. After several unsettling experiences, he cracks on the sixth day, but Timmy refuses to watch the tape, leaving Jake without someone to pass the curse onto.

By the next day, he's become so desperate he tries to play the video on the display models at an electronics store, but is caught and thrown out. Finally, he thinks of Emily, a girl he goes to school with. He invites her over without mentioning the video, and an hour before the deadline, she agrees to come, leading to the opening sequence of The Ring Two. The Ring 2 redirects here. ...

External links

• The Ring World - a fansite covering all aspects of Ringu works.
• the Ring AREA - Contains of the cursed videos of the Ring cycle and their scene-by-scene analyses, as well as lots of other useful information.
• Rings at The Internet Movie Database