Samara has returned for another go-round at the land of the living, and to try and stir up some trouble in the world above. Unlike the first movie, this one is a bit less frightening, as it’s a little more focused on one person, and there is a bit more idea of what is going on.

This time around, Samara has decided that she wants to live as a real child, and so she tries to take over the body of Aidan (David Dorfman). Unfortunately, his mom sorta likes him, so she fights to keep Samara from doing so. Naturally, no one wants to believe her.

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In this release, the third installment of the series, the action gets more gruesome (as you would expect), but the basic premise is the same: A bunch of people are affected by the visions of one person. That person gets nervous about an event that is about to happen, and as such those people don’t die as they are supposed to, thus circumventing death’s design and laying the groundwork for the rest of the movie.

This movie loses touch with the first two in that there isn’t any connection, other than the fact that those who got off of an ill-fated roller coaster just before it plunged several students to their deaths manage to look up the initial incident on the internet (there is only a brief mention of the second group). But it stays fairly close to the basic premise of the series.

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