Transnational Horror Cinema by Sophia Siddique & Raphael Raphael

Author:Sophia Siddique & Raphael Raphael
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK, London

Alongside this language of disability through which Sadako is depicted as “twisted” and “deformed,” it is worth considering, briefly, some of the aesthetic and sociocultural issues that shape the transnational discourses at work in Ringu and its remake as The Ring. Nicholas Holm (2011) offers an incisive comparison of the key differences in the handling of the videotape through which the disabled bodies of Sadako and Samara exact infinite revenge. One such difference lies in the cinematic role accorded to the montage on the tape itself:whereas the Japanese version of the tape provides clues that propel the narrative forward, the American version provides little more than formalist images that must be interpreted by the viewer as much as the characters. The ultimate purpose of The Ring’s tape, thus, is inaccessible and indecipherable to the viewer without the manipulation carried out by Rachel, which stands in contrast to Ringu’s tape, whose logic of interpretation is salient, if opaque, from the perspective of the audience. (188).

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