by CBB

Those who wished for a better sequel to the US remake of THE RING can be hopeful. Some of the worst scenes are gone, a new beginning and ending were created to provide a lot more tension and fear. It comes full circle.

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original film name: Ring Two
new film name : The Ring Two – Unlocking The Well
film studio name : Dreamworks
edit crew name : CBB
Date Original Film Was Released : 2003
Date Edit Was Released : February, 2009
Original Runtime : 129 min
New Runtime : 107 min
Amount of time Cut/Added : 38 minutes cut / 16 minutes added

Fanedit details:
THE RING TWO UNLOCKING THE WELL is a fanedit about both the curse of Samara for others and about demonic posession in the life of Rachel and Aiden. To make it a much more scary movie and more true to the orinal US remake, a lot of over-the-top and unneeded scenes were removed. The short movie RINGS was included to the beginning and ending, to make it more part of the RING’s universe. Most of the atrocious “deer” scene was removed and the psychiatrist Dr Temple was completely removed, becuase her entire appearance and especially her death was annoying. This does not turn RING TWO into a masterpiece of horror movies, but hopefully into an entertaining sequel that can be enjoyed by fans.

The changes:

• - added rings
• - cut rings intro
• - cut day7 beginning
• - cut Rings website
• - cut some of the ringmates discussion
• - recolored RING TWO for a more greenish taint
• - cut Ring 2 intro
• - cut couch buying, Rachel cooking, Aidan talking
• - cut Samara saying to Rachel “I found you”
• - cut the neighbors from the market
• - cut Aidan walking through the market
• - cut Aidan trying out the toilets
• - cut A bit of Rachel’s search for Aidan
• - cut Aidan approaches the 2nd water crane, fly scene
• - cut the deer scene, except for the final impact (to damage the car)
• - cut Rachel sitting in the hospital watching TV
• - cut Dr Temple entirely
• - cut the real estate salesman
• - cut the deer bones from the cellar
• - removed Aidan calling Rachel after she closed the well
• - cut ending
• - added Ring video
• - added Rings beginning to the end
• - added new end credits

released as:

• full NTSC SL DVD (RS)
• xvid avi (700mb) (BT)

DVD DETAILS

• 107 minutes Single Layer NTSC 1.81:1 anamorphic widescreen with AC3-5.1 audio
• LANGUAGE : ENGLISH (5.1)
• SUBTITLES : ENGLISH (selectable)
• MENUS : animated with sound
• SCENE SELECTION : yes
• EXTRAS: Deleted Scenes (a selection of the most interesting deleted scenes, 13 minutes)
• Samara (history of a ghost girl)
• The Cursed Video (watch the entire video that causes all the trouble and expect your phone to ring, when it’s finished)
• CBB Overview for all 32 fanedits
• COVER&Disc ART : yes, on DVD-Rom part

Fanedit history and making:
THE RING TWO was a major disappointment. It was not bad enough to be unwatchable, but it could in no way keep up with the tension and suspense of the first remake. The director tried to hard to add symbols and fancy special effects scenes and forgot about an interesting plot. Also he broke the rules by including abilities to Samara that she did not have in the first part (like forcing peopel to commit suicide). The RINGS special feature: What was originally planned as the bridge to RING 2 ended up as an extra on the DVD. Interestingly it was the better movie and more what people actually wanted to see.
I made my first fanedit of this movie, right when I got the DVD by simply removing the entire deer scene, as this was the most annoying part of the movie for me. But I had planned a true fanedit for a long time and finally I was in the mood to get to it, not because I expected it to be a great movie, but with the hope to create a bearable and entertaining sequel to THE RING, which I still love. I started with RINGS, edited it to make it less of a short movie and more part of a real movie and then got to RING TWO. Now the director seemed to think that people would really care a lot about Rachel and Aidan and what happened to them, but I for one did not at all and removed plenty of their scenes, as they were dragging. In my first cut I removed the entire deer scene, which later on turned out to be not a good idea, as the deers wrecked Rachel’s car and an explanation for this had to be included. The removal of Dr Temple, the psychiatrist, who wants to take Aiden away from his mother, was really a benefit to the movie as well as the removal of the real estate salesman, whose funny appearance did not at all work well for me. Aiden. David Dorfman is unfortunately not a great actor and got way too many important scenes in the sequel. I took out a lot of them (especially when he walks through the market and from there to the toilet) and again I think: this is good for the movie.
In my first cut I left the ending unharmed, but when re watching it felt shallow and empty. A complete happy ending felt kind of undeserved, so I decided to create a new one, more open. Samara is such a mighty demon and while it may be possible to protect someone you love from her, you may not so easily get just away with it. And her demonic grudge of course never ends.

Hardware and software information:
Hardware:

• Windows XP computer
• with an AMD phenom 940 quadcore cpu
• and 4 GB of RAM on an ASUS board

Software:

• Ulead Media Studio Pro 8.0
• Vegas Video 7.0
• Cinema Craft Encoder
• Virtual Dub
• Adobe Audition 1.5
• Pro Show Producer
• Jasc Paint Shop Pro
• PhotoZoom Pro2
• DVD Lab Pro 1.52
• Cyberlink Power DVD
• Cinematize 2 Pro
• Irfan View
• PGCDemux
• AnyDVD
• DGPulldown
• TMPGxpress

Additional comment: I am not expecting a lot of people to be interested in this small project, but those who are, please leave a comment.

Time needed for the edition:
editing: 5 days, extras: 4 days, DVD menus: 2 days, quality checking and further corrections: 1 day.

persons involved: boon

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