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The Ring (2002)

Film
DirectorGore Verbinski
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Figures

Objects & symbols
  • The cursed VHS tape as an object.
Form & technique
  • The film's overall narrative and stylistic structure as a remake of a Japanese horror film.
  • The film's desaturated, blue-green color palette.
Tropes
  • Samara Morgan's emergence from the well and the television screen. → Maternal Abjection
  • The television set as a portal for the supernatural within the home.
  • Samara's fatal gaze, which kills her victims through the cursed videotape.
  • The materiality of the cursed videotape and its associated imagery (water, decay, static).
  • The curse's method of transmission: watching the tape, getting a phone call, and copying the tape.

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