The Ring is a Horror Movie About Horror Movies
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- A metatextual analysis of The Ring (2002)
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description tags: The Ring (2002), Ringu (1998), Gore Verbinski, Naomi Watts, Hans Zimmer, Koji Suzuki, Hideo Nakata, horror, scary, spooky, explained, analysis, 20th anniversary, 20 years later
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This film literally scarred me when I was 10 years old and it still haunts me to this day. The main thing that got me was Noah’s face reveal at the end. I tried when I was a bit older to desensitise myself but it just won’t work and here I am at 30, plucking up the courage to watch a video about it! I covered most of the screen and listened to what you said so I’m not sure if it popped up or not… anyway great video!!!
Y’a, this is the movie that gave me horror based insomnia as a kid rip. Fully understand
It did such a good job of genuinely shocking you out of nowhere. I especially love how his face reveal was meant to be a visceral example of the point Samara was describing in her want for suffering.
I’m really glad that I watched it around 14-15. This is how I feel about the original exorcist among other things, though. My dad showed it to me when I was 8. Years later I had one of the scariest nightmares I’ve ever had which unfortunately revolved around the movie and it still freaks me out in my early 20’s lol.
So, there is no other film since that has scared you the same?
@@lufesaro7741 nope no other film has scared me the same as The Ring. It really mentally scarred me as a child.
The Ring is one of favorite horror movies of all time. Both the Eng and Jap version are amazing. For me this movie works so well because the whole movie feels so goddamn cold and wet.The blue/grey color pellet is almost oppressive in a way that I can't really describe. Great video
Given my interpretation, I felt that the blue tint to the film was meant to mimic the phosphorescent glow of old CRT TVs. It's a detail I've always liked, but just couldn't find a natural way to include it into the video itself. Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for sharing your love for the film(s)!
@@meeptopdid you know? Ring (1998) is the second adaptation of Kôji Suzuki’s novel Ring (1991) yet its the first theatrical adaptation. There was a V-Cinema adaptation that was aired on FujiTV called Ring: Complete Edition (1995), this was more of a mystery sci-fi movie with shocking and spooky elements rather than an outright horror film, you can consider it horror but less so even in a traditional sense.
Whereas Ring (1998) has not only itself to go on but Ring 2 (1999) as well as Ring 0: Birthday (2000) to help expand the story. Spiral (1998) is also there but its more closer to the novel Spiral (1995) by Kôji Suzuki.
Ring (1998) & Ring 2 (1999) had a major impact on me.
As of 2024 Toho is still going with the Ring franchise. This upcoming movie is called Sadako: The Pendant Of Mourning (2024) in which it has the same namesake of “Sadako” as the other Ring movies released since 2012 in which it started with Sadako 3D (2012) which people speculate is a sequel to Spiral (1998) but the ending of Spiral (1998) contradicts that/
1:50 Fun fact: moral panic over media has basically always been a thing. I'm reading up on Gothic literature for my PhD, and in the 18th-century there was a debate over whether READING would lead to moral degradation because literacy rates (notably among the middle class and women) were rising. People were apparently worried that reading fiction, and particularly Gothic/fantasy fiction, could lead to people being essentially bewitched by imagination to the point of losing interest in reality or not being able to tell the difference between fiction and reality. And, ironically, the texts that they were concerned about are now largely considered "high brow" classic literature.
Anyway, most of this information is from The Rise of the Gothic Novel by Maggie Kilgour, if anyone is interested in reading more about this!
And oh gosh if someone (especially a woman) dared to read silently by themselves! Not out loud in the company of other people, to other people.
It’s funny to read warnings on new technology (f.g. ebook readers). There was a time when printed books were considered dangerous technology, too. Simply because people could learn to read and interpret them themselves.
I saw this in college on a date. When we went to bed I asked to switch places from the outside to the wall side of the bed. She asked if I was uncomfortable and I said “no I just want the girl to grab you first so I have a chance to escape”.
The original japanese ring is probably my favorite movie ever because of those themes of generational guilt as well as how culturally reflective it is of japan during the 90's. I don't really feel like typing an entire essay but if you are really interested look at the social climate of Japan during the 90's and correlate the ideas of the time and the gloom of everything with ring. It's a fantastic insight into the time and is just so incredibly unique I cannot get over it.
The cultural roots are always so cool, I remember the creator saying that if he wanted anything really gleamed from his story, it's that fathers be closer and more understanding to their daughters. Sadako was genuinely tragic and more in line with the cycle of inter-generational trauma, while Samara is simply trauma incarnate set to a feedback loop.
Here you want all the Japanese Ring movies?
Well here you go:
- Ring: Complete Edition (1995)
- Ring (1998)
- Spiral (1998)
- Ring 2 (1999)
- Ring 0: Birthday (2000)
- Sadako 3D (2012)
- Sadako 3D 2 (2013)
- Sadako vs Kayako (2016)
- Sadako (2019)
- Sadako DX (2022)
- Sadako: Pendant Of Mourning (2024)
This is arguably my favorite horror movie. It does everything right. Slow burn, investigative, the atmosphere of dread. It’s a fine example of horror cinema
Not to mention the score is super haunting I think scoring a horror movie is one of the hardest jobs out there but if done correctly can take a horror movie from 0 to 100
That jumpscare when the camera shows the girl's petrified screaming face just makes your heart drop
This, the others and the sixth sense were movies that my family and I often watched together. It always scared me as a kid but the imagery always stuck out
Bruh I loved the Others and the Strangers that was released in 2008 they're all so overlooked aside from the Sixth Sense as some of the greatest psychological thrillers of all time but should definitely be in the conversation in my opinion
The ring isn't about a horror movie within a horror movie but the videotape can be traced back to the western technological revolution in Japan. The Japanese were scared of technological advancement because they thought they might loose their cultural identity by westernizing too much.
I only heard a bit about the American remarke without having watched it and I already don't like it.
Sadako had a backstory and I might say Ring 0 is one of my favorite movies
This movie is 20 years old...?! Wow. 2000s horror movies must be to gen z what 80s horror were to millennials
I’ve seen The Ring (2002) and it was a slog to get through. I damn well nearly fell asleep. Samara’s backstory is a dumpster fire on the original or might I say revised version of Sadako’s backstory. The one established in Ring (1998)
00s movies have a more timeless look eg the Ring The Strangers the Sixth Sense etc that make them look like they could have released today '80's movies look way more dated which is why watching them now they look more funny than anything to be scared of
I LOVE the Ring. It was my favorite horror movie for a LONG time and it got me into Hans Zimmer as a composer.
Bruh the Ring is so underrated and I'm not sure why it never gets included in the conversation of greatest horror movies of all time and in my opinion it should and to your point the score in addition to the cinematography is what makes this movie the score itself is so haunting and makes it even more creepy
I'm generally not straight up horrified by horror films. I can kind of formulate and time myself for when I jump scare is going to happen. Most movies have some kind of resolution at the end. What was extremely unsettling for me was that they did come to some kind of closure for Samira.. and then she kept coming. Just with no discretion. That left me with My Imagination Running wild. I watched this movie when I was 19 and in my first apartment by myself. I washed it in theater with my boyfriend on the same day that he caught a plane home.. when I got home that evening I turned on every light and unplugged every electronic device 🤣🤣🤣 I could not muster the courage to watch the Japanese version because they typically have zero chill and I knew that would probably have been even scarier psychologically. Brilliant. And the cinematography was just great. And the fact that at the end you had accidentally watched "the video" too so now you were involved and theoretically had a target on your own head by the end of the movie.
Japanese version? well Ring (1998) isn’t even the only Japanese Ring movie. It’s technically the second adaptation and film.
As someone who's watched the Japanese version the American version in my opinion is way scarier and what I figured after rewatching the Ring the other day Samara is not really a human she's a demon that was obvious to me because in the Japanese version her adopted father calls her a monster if you watch the sequel Ring Two which is not bad in my opinion her biological mother explains she was told in a dream by Samara to kill her and she didn't that's when I knew this wasn't really a human being this was a demonic entity that took on the form of the child if you know anything about the dark arts or people who worship satan this is very common
Watched this movie when I was 7 years old. I can look back and realize now that I dealt with a good 5 years of post traumatic stress. I never talked to anyone about it because I knew it was just a movie but it really wreaked havoc on my nervous system. My imagination would run wild and those thoughts were difficult to repress. There's a few bits of that movie that offer in my opinion the most terrifying scenery that's ever been showcased in a horror film. Perhaps I have a strong bias considering it was absolutely the most terrifying thing I could have ever seen at the age of 7 but even now at 33 those scenes are incredibly unnerving. The delivery really catches you off guard.
You're like criminally underrated
This video deserves way more views
It was also a TV series, I watched with my Japanese roommate supplying the bootleg VHS tapes once a week. We had zero context except "You must watch this!"
One thing not mentioned very much is the incredible soundtrack, just matches the film perfectly.
Bruh I said the same thing the scoring was incredible in this movie made it that much more creepy
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The persona 5 background music threw me off lmao
I've been watching quite a few The Ring movie reactions as of late so I feel like I've said this same thing multiple times by now.. because I have. But here I go again because why not. I was about 15 years old when I first saw the movie. I went and rented it with a friend. VHS was still a thing back then so it of course made the whole thing even creepier. And I swear, that movie did something to me. Well, it did a whole number of things, I guess. Some of those things passed as time went on, but the others are still with me to this day. The things that have passed.. well, those mainly include just drawing pictures, like.. art of the movie scenes and such. And the things I still carry with me? I'm now 32 years old and I've been left with almost a paralyzing fear of anything that reminds me of Samara. The whole thing about long, dark hair. Any creature that looks like that in any form of media just sends me over the edge. Probably the worst case after Samara herself is Anima from a game called The Evil Within 2. She would come into my dreams multiple times. Now she's seemingly left me alone but then again, I haven't played the game in a few years either. But the fear of anything that resembles Samara and Anima hasn't gone anywhere. Oh, and the scene where Samara comes out of the tv and kills Noah? That still lives rent free in my head all these years later. This movie freaks me out, but.. I also love it at the same time.
I get over stimulated often and your voice is like a warm blanket for my brain.
You also make interest driving points, I guess.
Thanks for making videos and good aim.
I love Ring 0:Rebirth. Great series with some excellent other versions too.
I was 15 when this movie was released. It was the last horror film that legit creeped me out.
1:43 Sams way, and bow here I am as a mega horror film
i definitely understand your reason for being scared of horror movies as a kid. My parents were also like that (pokemon got caught up in the "it's demonic!!!!" secondary satanic panic of the late 90's through the early 2000's) and only now have i started to appreciate aspects of the horror genre and be able to watch them, in my early 30s.
The American version came out when I was 2, and was out on video tape a year or so later (so I was 3/4), n my brother locked me in a room with it on. I was traumatised and afraid of tv's for a long time lol. Nowadays it's one of my favourite horrors and I adore it soooo much. Cool video n loving your content (:
You should watch the Japanese version that it's a remake of I think you can find it on RUclips I wouldn't say as scary as the American version but still creepy
@@Model_Roe I've seen the Japanese version, and honestly didn't find it as scary, which is likely due to the fact I took on so much fear from the American one as a kid. Regardless both great films (:
I adore The Ring. Watched it as an adult with a group of adults at university and we ALL walked home in the middle of the road so ad not to walk in the shadows LOL
Can totally imagine the tape being spread like absolute wildfire today. Good luck trying to find someone who hadn’t probably watched it.
it made soooo scared back in the day !!
The score was 10/10 made the movie that much creepier
That "I saw...her face" jump scare will remain one of the most terrifying and well done jump scares of all time.
Tomoko’s death was more effective. I’ll never give Americans credit for good horror remakes. Its something that Americans can’t do, remake something from somewhere else and not have it scream edgy
@@MASAHIRO-X-this remake is an exception though. (2002) was a legit remake. Probably my favorite horror movie. Usually horror aficionados tend to rank it high
I’ll never forget the first time I saw that scene. It was frightening
Samara coming out of the TV in the end to this day is one of the scariest things I've ever watched in cinema I remember watching it in theaters and the whole audience screamed in terror lol we couldn't believe what we were watching
This movie is criminally underrated idc what anybody says between the cinematography lighting the score which in my opinion is super haunting even the acting the pacing tension one of the creepiest movies I've ever watched
i love the persona music in the back it makes me feel like i’m studying as joker
Movies, books, video games, and other media products are food for thought/soul. You just have to be aware of what you must consume to fuel your soul's motivation. If you maintain your awareness and consume soul uplifting products, then no amount of horror will confuse and terrorize you.
I was a teenager when this film came out. Honestly, this film did not scare me at all. There are other films that scared me a lot compared to this one.
Had a sleepover when I was 13 and rented what we thought was the ring. We took home and it was ringu. We thought it was hilarious
Great video!! Would you ever consider making a video on Silent Hill? I’d love to see your take
Idk why people are so scared of this movie I watched it when I was 8 and boi I loved the movie. Also modern horror movies are so horrible now days
In my opinion the original japenese will always be superior, but I didn’t despise this remake.
This was always one of my favorite movies. Even when I watched it as a child and I agree 100%
you should definetely watch ju on origins. u will not regret it. must watch for horror watchers pls i beg u
Want a horror movie about horror movies? Cabin in the woods baby yeahhhhh
Wouldn't the movie about horror movies ALSO be Scream?
The idea of a killer videotape and someone calling you saying "7 days!" is really REALLY silly. Like how would anyone know you watched the tape? But it's played straight here, and its spooky, and it just works, which I love. It also doesn't hurt that I love the dark green look of the film, as well as having it set/shot in the Pacific Northwest, which is awesome.
In the original novel, it was executed better - the tape itself ended with a mesage saying whoever saw it, was destined to die in a week at that same time, and even provided the instructions to save yourself, though the first 4 victims recorded over those.
Great stuff as always mate!
this guy is like the polyphonic of tv/movies. big👍
The Ring is such a banger
WOW
If I wanted to read more into the movie than there probably is, I would propose that Samara was not the origin of the bad things happening around her, but rather her mother being psychotic after not being able to have a daughter. Adopting a girl gave a short relief, but she might eventually have broken down, realizing that Samara will never actually be _her_ daughter. The terrible things that happened stopped when Samara was removed, implying that the mother's psychosis was put on hold. The mother, for example, was occupied with the horses and therefore most likely to be around them. It is entirely imaginable that, during psychotic episodes, she did things she may not recall, to then pin it on Samara. It's just something I came up with after rewatching the movie an hour ago. Maybe Samara is, in the end, just a child, that got damaged by proxy through her adoptive mother's pyschosis induced by the trauma of not being able to have a biological child. Perhaps that would also explain why, in the movie, there's mainly just the mother, with Samara only being there for a short glimpse. Maybe the mom created the video in a pychotic episode, with Samara coming in after her death? Anyway, just speculating. I should see if I can find the screenplay or commentaries somewhere; I'm legitimately curious now what the director actually had in mind.
The Ring twO reveals that Samara was possessed.
Your theory makes no sense lol 😂 you need to watch the Japanese version and the sequel to understand what the movie is really about it's essentially about the occult Samara is a demon she's not a human being she manifested herself into human form but she's not really human which is why her aim was to cause as much destruction and death as possible if you watch the Ring Two you'd understand Samara's biological mom was mentally ill but was told in a dream by Samara to kill her as a way to save her because Samara was not really human the mother tried killing her but was stopped by the nuns at the women's shelter where she was born and was given up by adoption by the lady in the video who is brushing her hair in the mirror and the one who threw herself off a bridge Samara is essentially a vessel for Satan to work through that's why in the sequel Naomi Watts character had to make sure she was finally killed so her soul couldn't live on
@@OBrasiloexactly 💯 what I just said in my reply to this comment Samara was a demon I figured that from the first movie she was a vessel for Satan to work through which is why her aim was to cause as much death and destruction as possible she wasn't really human
Solid video as always❤️ Totally gonna give the movies a rewatch now, haven’t seen them since I was 13 or something
Your channel is going to blow up soon! Very well produced, and always insightful commentaries. Love it. Currently binging while doing some graphic design.
Watching videos about "The Ring" being home alone even at the middle of the day still gives me chills especially when I'm in front of my TV😅Though I'm a grown ass 27 year old woman.😅
Can’t believe i just found you!! I love your content man! OSTA choices are great too:)
I love this movie!!!! It’s one of my favorite horror movies. The cold green color pallet always entices me in, and I never feel quite at ease watching it
After going through gore verbinskis filmography idk if i buy it but maybe
Damn Naomi Watts is in this too? Only a year after Mulholland Drive. Might get me to watch The Ring.
The original japanese film told a story of a fear of technology and the every changing world its only fitting for the remake to be about horror movies
I Swear the world speaks there evils into existence.
your film interpretations are my favorite. thank you.
Can't believe I just found your channel. Been binging for the last hour. You're great! Hope you get more recognition soon. Love your work!
The film is also about the fear of technology in general, made clear by the very first lines in the movie (the teenage girl going off about magnetic waves killing brain cells)
I think it's more about the occult that's the vibe I got from watching the first movie as someone who's spiritual I knew Samara was demon I didn't think she was human less to do about technology and more to do with witchcraft human sacrifice and dark arts the sequel explains that and so does the Japanese version because in that one Samara's adopted father calls her a monster insinuating she's not human she's something else Samara was really a vessel for Satan to work through and if you know anything about witchcraft and devil worshipers they often target children because they're seen as more pure and innocent energetically
What about Ringu.
I think it's more concretely about spread of information and how different technologies affect it. It is a truly beautiful movie and lots of interestinf observations here. I feel that it's hard to be scared of horror movies after you've seen 10 of them. People usually watch one when they are small, get traumatized then obsessively avoid them, but once you watch just a couple you see through tropes and the fiction. Sure it might be uncomfortable in the moment but they just won't do any lasting damage to anyone of sound mind.
I watched the Ring twice in theaters when it was released and found it scary both times lol I even watched the other day and it still creeped out I would recommend to anybody who hasn't watched it to watch the Japanese version that gives you a much better sense of what the story is about I also realised re watching it Samara isn't a human being she's a demon that seemed to come into human form as an infant which is why in the sequel Ring Two you'll see her biological mother say Samara told her in a dream to kill her because she wasn't a human being she was a demon
@@Model_Roe I have, but I prefer the american version. With that said I find Ju-on (The Grudge) series to be scarier in general.
@@tvsonicserbia5140 absolutely I agree 💯 you I found the American version waaaaaay scarier than the Japanese version Gore did a stellar job in my opinion between the first ten minutes the pacing tension the buildups the contemporary the visuals and that super haunting score from Hans Zimmer it's just way better in my opinion I've watched the Ring several times now and each time I watch it I get scared
Why r people still talking about this shitty remake?
I always find it amusing when I hear about someone who knows nothing about the original Ring novels getting excited about the movie. The film Ring is based on the Ring series of novels by Koji Suzuki. The interesting thing about these novels is that they are not actually horror, but rather science fiction. The concept revolves around a "cursed video" (computer program) that transcends the boundaries of reality and infiltrates the real world. When you think about it, it's quite satirical.
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I love this movie.On a re-watch the kid is a little bastard.He just needed to share what he knows and a lot of hassle is avoided.