Rings
“First you watch it. Then you die.”
Julia becomes worried about her boyfriend Holt when he explores the dark urban legend of a mysterious videotape said to kill the watcher seven days after viewing. She sacrifices herself to save her boyfriend and in doing so makes a horrifying discovery: there is a "movie within the movie" that no one has ever seen before.
How Rings compares
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of The Ring, not taken from this film’s own record.
- #3 of 3
- Rank in the series by rating
- 12 years
- Wait since the previous film
- 22%
- Share of the series audience
Rings (2017) is the lowest-rated of the 3 rated films in The Ring series, at 5.0/10 on TMDB against a series average of 5.8/10.
It arrived 12 years after The Ring Two (2005), the longest wait between any two films in The Ring series.
Its 2,660 TMDB ratings are 22% of the 12,090 cast across the series.
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for The Ring, comparing all 3 released films in the series. Last recalculated September 2026.
