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Ring
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1998 · Film · 96 min
Part of Ring Collection
Directed by Hideo Nakata
A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.
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As mentioned in the article a lot of people in the UK were introduced to a certain brand of Asian cinema via 'Tartan Asia Extreme'.
I was no different. As a student I'd venture into the tiny world cinema section of HMV and flick through the titles looking for anything that had the 'TARTAN ASIA EXTREME' branding on it.
So many fantastic movies in the collection [1]. Oldboy, Battle Royale, Dark Water, Hard Boiled, Ring, Infernal Affairs, Audition, etc.
1: https://www.benoakley.co.uk/tartan-asia-extreme
I'm interested in what makes these glitches "creepy"--is it possible to develop some criteria that all of these glitches satisfy? I'm reminded of the photograph distortions (e.g. https://thatwasabitmental.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/ringu1.jpg) shown in the 1998 horror movie Ringu (which coincidentally has much of its plot dedicated to a VHS tape). How does such a simple blurring effect manage to do so much?