I will argue the toss with you that The Ring is a ghost film. Try me.
Film: the Ring Director: Gore Verbinski Year: 2002 Cert.: 15
Threat: The threat is the freaky small child that comes out of the television. The Camera shots/angles always go quite skewed or strange whenever she appears, with lots of different shots coming thick at fast to create a feeling of panic, coupled with long shots to create unease. The lighting goes dark whenever she comes out of the television. Everythings goes black apart from the TV with generates static, and presents the girl as threating and creepy. The music is classic tense horror fair, and little sound comes from the girl herself. The setting is a young girls house, which isnt important as its just sort of, the opening kill. But the house is made to be creepier than it could have been because of all the above.
Vunerability: The young teenage girl is made to appear vunerable in the opening. The camera uses high angle shots to make her seem weak and vunerable, and over the shoulder tracking shots to give the impression she is being followed. The lighting on her is also dark mostly, which gives a feeling of isolation, and even though she is with a friend her numbers up and she cant be helped.
Characterisation: In the opening scene, there isnt a whole lot of characterisation. The monster of the peices only motivation is revenge, which we dont find out till later, and the teenager doesnt get much chance to go from anything other than happy face to "wtf" face to scared face to dead face.
Genre: This is classic horror, almost bordering on cliche. Actually, it is cliche. Young girl home alone (apart from a useless friend)? check. Mysterious urban myth that cant be true but is? check. Creepy telephone ringing? check. Unbearable moments of tension and false panic? Big check.
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