Personally, I have always been a fanatic of horror movies and thrillers, but if I'm being completely honest, the horror movie genre has had a steady decline in quality in the last few years. From poor quality sequels to over-dramatic remakes, the horror movie industry has had its fair share of bad movies. That being said, "The Ring" movies have always been some of my favorite thrillers/scary movies to watch.

I remember watching the first Ring movie when I was 8-years-old with my mom and dad. Sure, you can say 8 is a little young for horror movies, but I grew up watching Chucky and IT, so this wasn't anything new to me. I've watched both "The Ring" and "The Ring 2" multiple times, so you can imagine my excitement when I heard that there would be a new movie to the series, Rings. I mean, who doesn't love stories about being killed by a ghost girl, seven days after watching some creepy video?

I went to the theater to watch it and I have to say, my expectations were kind of low because I don't really like sequels, especially the third one. I expected some weird, unimportant love story injected into the plot and some bad graphics, and I have to say that my predictions were pretty accurate. My favorite parts about the first two "Ring" movies were the revelation of Samara's, (scary little demon girl), life and the hidden secrets about why she is the way she is. "Rings" had a pretty decent plot and revealed a lot more about Samara. I liked that the director and screenwriters decided to bring in Samara's biological mom since in the last two movies it was a bit more focused on her life after the adoption.

Overall, the plot of the movie was pretty solid but I personally found it to be poorly executed. Going back to the town Samara was born in and finding out that her mother was trapped by some crazy priest is a pretty killer story, literally. The only flaw here is that the movie didn't seem to be very connected. What I mean by this is that we start the movie with our main character, Julia, getting a weird burn-like mark on her hand. Now, that mark had significance but we don't find this out until the end, which ends the movie in a cliff-hanger that fails to leave the audience wanting more, but instead, leaves them sitting in their seats feeling like the movie must have cut off or something.

In my opinion, the significance of the mark should have been revealed a lot earlier into the movie. I think the director probably intended the movie to end in a cliff-hanger, but I do not think it was very effective in that sense. Other than that, the graphics looked very computerized and almost fake, making Samara go from creepy-demon-child to creepy-demon-cartoon. The animations in the first two movies looked a lot less subtle, which is ironic because the last movie came out in 2005 and it's now 2017. We now have better technology but I don't think it was taken advantage of to the fullest.

I hate to give "Rings" a bad review because I've enjoyed the first two movies in the series, but if I'm being completely honest, I'd give "Rings" a solid 4/10 on a scale of quality and scare factor. I'm not a person that scares easily at all, hence the fact that I've been watching horror movies since I could understand horror, but I do jump when it's appropriate. This movie didn't have many jumps scares or things that left your mind wandering into its dark spot. This movie wasn't scary, at all. I wouldn't recommend paying the $10 to watch "Rings" in theaters, but if it comes out on Netflix I'll totally watch it again sometime, just for fun. Hopefully, this movie will be the end to the Ring movies, but that ending says otherwise.