The story of 'The Ring' begins with the very cliches horroe film opening with an establishing shot of a house at night, it is stormy outside and raining. Two schools home alone discussing scary events. Here they discuss a previous weekend 7 days ago, when one of them Katie went to a cabin in the mountains with 2 friends and a boyfriend. They move topics onto a video tape which is supposedly cursed and whoever watches it gets a phone call straight after telling them they will die in 7 days. Then 7 days later, (to the exact time) the viewer dies. In absolute shock and devastation Katie reveals she had watched a weird tape at the cabin exactly 7 days before. After a series of explainable activities going on in the house they are in, involving a tv in the house turning itself on and making white noise, Katie is mysteriously killed while Becca has the unconformable job of watching, causing her to be institutionalized in a mental hospital.
We then see Katies Aunt, Rachel. Her and her son are at his school where Aidens teacher brings it to Rachels attention hes been drawing picturres of his dead cousin in the ground weeks days before she even died. At the girls funeral her mother asks her sister (Rachel) to invensitage her neices death, and as she learns more and more she discovers the video tape. Her investigation leads her to the same cabin in the mountains where Katie and her friends had watched the tape. There, she finds the tape and eventually watches it. She revieves the same phonecall what she expected and the nextday showed Noah (Aidens father) the tape, and they relaise they have a time limit. The next morning Rachel wakes to find Aiden watching the tape, now this is became serious.
After veiwing the tape very unexplanable and weird things begin to happen to Rachel. She starts to have nose bleeds, strange nightmares and many more. Her main focus then becomes to the tape, where she discovers many distubing images. Once inventigating these thye lead her to a woman named Anna Morgan (a woman featured in the tape) who lived on Moesko Island with her husband and daughter, and raised horses. Rachel findsa out that a horrific tradegy hits the Morgan ranch, where all the horses that they breed seemed to go man, attempted to flee the ranch and when they did, they drown themselfs in the sea. No body could diagnose what was wrong with the horses, which caused Anna to become depressed, and made her take residence at a metal institiuation, then commited suicude. Rachel then goes to the Morgan Ranch, where she finds Richard Morgan who is still alive, he refuses to talk about the video or his daughter. Rachel goes to see the local doctor to ask about the Morgan family. The old doctor tells her that Anna wanted a child more than anything, but was never able to successfully fall pregnant. One winter Anna and Richard left and returned with Samara who they adopted. But after some time Anna started complaining about visions that only happend when Samara was around, so she sent them both to a mental institute on the continent. Meanwhile Noah sneaks into the insitiute and finds Anna Morgans fil and discovers that a video is missing from there. Rachel then returns to the house and questions Richard about the conversation Smara had with the doctors on a tape she watched, and Richard finally stated the girl was evil, then kills himself infront of Rachels eyes.
Noah arraives and him and Rachel go into a barn when the horses used to be kept, and discover a room where Samars was kept by Richard. Behind the wallpaper in the bedroom they find an image of a ree from the video tape, and Rachel remebrs seeing it in the cabin she visited. They return there and discover a well underneath the floor. In which Rachel is led to where Samara was killed, at the bottom of the well under the floorborards. When Rachel falls down the well she finds Samaras body. Samara then somehow shows Rachel that her mother killed her, and Rachel tells authorities and the now dead Samara is given a proper burial, presumblyputting her spirt to rest.
Rachel now thinks that everything is ok as she has survived passed her 7 day mark, and informs her son Aiden then everything will be okay as Samara is now at rest. Aiden quickly tells her that her spirit has been relasied, shown by the bruises shown on his arm, the same as Rachel had. Next we see Noah at his flat, and we watch him go through the same as what Rachels neice, Katie did. We see Samara crawl out of the TV and she stares directly at Noah, we then see Rachel find Noah's body in his flat. Rachel is scared and worried that Aiden would die too when she realizes that the only way to escape Samara after watching the video is to make a copy of the tape and show it to someone else, this means shes continuing the cycle. The movie ends with Rachel helping Aiden how to make a copy of the tape so that he can then pass on the curse. As they make the tape copy, Aiden asks him mum, who was to see the tape?
Tense music plays a vital part in the film as as soon as we hear it we feel the mood that the director is trying to convey. Throughout the film the music is deep, slow, but when the visual climax is close, the music seems to be a lot more upbeat and racing. It creates an emotional roller-coaster with the audience but manages to create the fear intended, no matter how cliche it is. These types of films always give you some suspense and then leave you hanging with something that isn't scary, and when the music stops and all the sound is diagetic, that can be the most tense moment created.
Not only tense music but of course the visual is the most important part of the film. Having bright colours and sunshine would be totally the wrong thing to do to create the dark mood intended. Hence the reason why throughout the film dark colours are used. Even the clothing, make up, setting and scripting was conveyed and intented to have a 'dark mood' cast over it.
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