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I find it highly fascinating to talk about the American remake of Ringu, given both that I find it to be one of the best remakes ever done but also one that changes so fundamentally what the movie is about without changing the main plot at the heart of it all. While Ringu was mostly occupied with depicting how trauma spreads like curses in a toned down ode to realism, Gore Verbinskis version reads more like a nightmare you just…
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The painful, ruthless mundanity of being cursed. Take an Onryo that makes up the rules to her own curse based on an urban legend being passed around at the same time and have her haunt the airwaves above her resting place, with you being able to capture her wrath by trying to record something off of the television. So what happens when you watch the tape? Life goes on for those cursed seven days. You still gotta trek to work,…
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Comes closer to capturing the feeling of a nonsensical nightmare than it has any right to be. One of the most influential online horror videos for a reason, the way it slips from vague realism into full-on psychedelic horror is so smoothly executed many people tried to recapture that snappy progression for years. The devil resides here.
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It's the little things. That one girl that suddenly stands motionless in your garden, the weird niche news you looked at on your computer, the grocery store clerk seemingly trying to make you do something you're not comfortable with. The blood on someones fingers, your partner not remembering things you talked about just a few hours earlier. Someone else relaying a story that sounds similar to yours. But it can't be, right? Everything is fine, you are just a bit…