i haven not read other people comment yet which will leave this opinion unbiased . i believe ring 0 be a phenomenal film and a brilliant prequel to the first two film ringu and ringu 2. i notice a different director make it and the actress who play sadako be not in it apparently so i think it be a director cash in on the popularity of the first two film . how brilliantly i be prove wrong . ring 0 seem no different in term of direction and the time period . it be a though all 3 film be make at the same time and i love it when there isn not a horridly noticeable gap between production and which ruin the feeling you get from the original . at first and ring 0 seem to throw me off and again while i be worry that it would not be the same style a the previous two movie . however and ring 0 be direct and produce in what look to be the perfect way for a late prequel . it give u pretty much all the info we be leave want from the two movie . so apart from fill in the storyline and time gap for a prequel and how do the movie rate in term of horror . well horrific be one word to describe it . i be very hard to scare but all three of the ring movie have manage to give me intense nightmare and fear of a little girl with black hair and ring 0 pretty much smash my nerve completely with it use of sadako . throughout the film they seem to make sadako stand out in the movie like she will have in the mind of many fan and that do it for me . after the first two movie i would sometimes think i saw the shape of sadako reflect in my tv and or in a corner . ring 0 put those image on screen and right in front of you which shatter whatever you have leave of confidence . i genuinely find myself cower in a sense a to what would be around the corner and what would the character see when he or she turn around . it bring the semi realistic fear i have from ring and ring 2 to life in this movie and just make it bad for me . scene where you would just see sadako foot walk by the camera across the screen and a character not dare to look up . i should leave it there and to say the least this film be just a intense and perhaps surprisingly more so with the use of image of sadako here and there such a the forest scene at the end of the movie which be just plain unnerving that she be there wherever you look . not attack you and not dead and just stand there and idle spook me out big time .