The ring movie1/27/2024 There’s no denying there are sequences within The Ring (2002) that still feel unsettling. You don’t need to spend that much money really, and the margins AKA “risk” is so much lower. BAM!!! That shook every expectation of what it took to make a horror film successful. This was an indie horror film that was on the painfully small budget of $15,000 total. One of the large contributing factors behind this is likely what studio expectation on budget spending was in 2002 was shaken after Paranormal Activity (2005) dropped. ![]() ![]() They were expecting Us (2019) to be a box office draw and it still had a third of the budget that The Ring (2002) was given. And that was for Us (2019), the follow-up horror film for director Jordan Peele after releasing the National hit Get Out (2017). ![]() If you’ll remember in my blog entry about comparing all the budgets for Blumhouse Productions, you’ll see that the biggest budget they’ve given anything in the last 20 years is 20 million. That’s an INSANE budget for a horror film. The Ring (2002) had a decently high budget of $48 Million (closer to $68 Mil with inflation). However when Veronica (the mystery-solving teenager that is 10x more badass than Nancy Drew ever was.) goes to interrogate or when a “bad” flash-back memory is shown, the color grade shifts to a HEAVY overcast blue/green. The television show Veronica Mars (2004) pops reds and blows out the lighting during scenes of teenagers interacting with fun or show warmth. In fact, many of the 2000’s television and film are distinct in the method of HEAVY color grading Color Grading techniques. Saw (2004), Skeleton Key (2005), House of Wax (2005), What Lies Beneath (2000)… all of them are guilty of heavy and drastic color grading overtones that lean into green/blue. You can tell when watching anything from that era just by the cinematography alone. Unfortunately the early 2000s really weren’t subtle on color grading. Color grading is an effective way to get you there, as psychologically there have been studies about how we react to certain colors in marketing. Hey, if you’re trying to make someone feel unsettled in a subtle way. With drastic color grading choices such as a cold, blue/green atmosphere. The largest thing that ages this film is the color grading that was popular for the era, and I would argue this cinematic style was trended by The Matrix (1999). However, The Ring (2002) was the first to make it BIG. I talk about some of this in my review for Pulse (2001) where it lists out all the Japanese films that transitioned over into American remakes. It wasn’t until years later when I was a freshman in college and exercised my right to an independent Netflix account all my own, (Pre-streaming service, this was all DVD’s in the mail only.) That I requested The Ring (2002) DVD to come to my mailbox.Īs previously stated this film STARTED a majoring trend of remaking Japanese films. Don’t tell me.” I could tell he desperately wanted too, but ultimately left me alone. I think a part of him even wanted to share it so that he didn’t have to bear this cursed feeling alone. He asked me if I wanted him to tell him the whole movie. But something about this story really spooked him. ![]() This guy played it tough all the time, teased me and his kid sister endlessly. That he’d avoided all TVs or thoroughly locked his door at night and that after the week mark he’ll feel better, even though he knew it was all make-believe. He’d seen the film and had told me he actually wished he hadn’t. There was a big brother to one of my friends. I was still pretty young to be watching horror films like that as my family was fairly religious and veering away from entertainment that promoted dark feelings or actual evil tended to put my mother off.īut I remember everyone’s reaction after. The Ring (2002) was part of a wave of American fascination with Japanese horror storytelling and remaking successful Japanese hits to an Americanized audience.
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