Alien at the Movies

It's the extended footage version of "The Ring" meets "Don't Breathe" when a deadly urban legend continues its 7-day curse. Johnny Galecki (aka The Big Bang Theory's Caltech experimental physicist Leonard Hofstadter) plays a biology associate professor using student guinea pigs in his "controlled" lab experiment version of Samara "hot potato". Vincent D'Onofrio has a key role in the revealing of the Samara's origins. Not having seen the original 2002 Ring film & can't recall any details of the 2005 "Ring Two" didn't hinder following, this time around, the protagonist Julia who steps up to save her boyfriend in this supernatural psychological horror thriller. Is it hallucinations or visions? Does Julia finally solve the mystery of the curse & breaks the cycle? Does this film drift off its genre course a bit before getting back on track? This third installment is really not that scary as it tries to add a little twist to the storyline. 

Alien gives it 2½ "the marked one" stars out of 4.