Samara Morgan, the eight-year-old tormenter from The Ringfranchise, ditches the video cassette and goes viral in the frightening first trailer for Rings, the long-awaited third installmentin thefranchise.
The clip opens with a young woman named Julia (Matilda Lutz) receiving the infamous and horrifying video in an e-mail, launching a hellish seven-day slog towards certain death. But as Julia peels the skin off her palm and pulls hair from her throat, theRingsclip also offers a peek at the story of Samara, the young girl unleashing all that terror.
For those sequences, director F. Javier Gutierrez creates an eerie fairytale-like universe cast in a sickly green. Samara is seen giving an interview at an insane asylum and being pushed down a well, inevitably entering Julias world by crawling out of her laptop screen.
Ringsopens February 3rd and also stars Alex Roe, Johnny Galecki, Aimee Teegarden, Bonnie Morgan and Vincent DOnofrio. The film follows 2005sThe Ring Twoand arrives 15 years after Gore VerbinskisThe Ring, which was based on the 1998 Japanese movie, Ring.