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Someone Uploaded the Ring Video Online in the First 'Rings' Trailer

Samara, the killer ghost, has expanded her murder spree beyond a few random VHS tape viewers for this 'Ring' sequel, which is useful since no one owns VHS players anymore.

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It's been 15 years since Naomi Watts introduced American audiences to the horror of grainy TV footage in The Ring and 11 years since the sequel, Ring 2, but the creepy videotape is back. The trailer for this fall's Rings just dropped, and, well, it's got everything you could ask for: hands reaching out of the TV, hair vomit, bugs, evil whispers, and more!

The Ring series is the American remake of the beloved Japanese Ringu horror franchise that spans six novels, eight films, TV shows, video games, and a manga. The American version is not quite the same juggernaut—having only produced two feature films and a short before this year's Rings—but it's still one of the scariest horror films of the new millennium and inspired plenty of jerky teens to whisper "seven days" to their friends over the phone.

The basic premise of the franchise is that there's an evil videotape that will kill you in seven days after you watch it. When the tape ends, your phone rings, and someone whispers "seven days." A week later, you get killed by a creepy wet ghost.

Now, the video has gone viral online, and there appears to be some kind of cult around it. Even worse, one woman discovers another movie within the movie, "that no one has ever seen before." Samara is then unleashed onto the world in a whole new way, expanding her murder spree beyond a few random VHS tape viewers—which is useful since no one owns VHS players anymore.

Rings will be released October 28, just in time for Hollywood's annual Halloween horror film drop.