The Ring

The Ring was a popular horror film made in 2002. it is a horror / mystery / thriller movie about a mysterious videotape which causes the death of everyone who watches it exactly a week after they watch it.
The mise en scene of the movie is set in a girls bedroom with two girls talking assumably having a sleepover. the weather is raining with great use of sound effects and emphasis of the rain colliding with the window. The audience are then told about a mysterious video tape which kills you 7 days after you watch it through conversation between the two girls. One of the girls confesses that she watched the tape 7 days ago and pretends to die playing a practical joke on her friend. the girl that watched the tape in named katie but the audience are not aware of this information just yet. Katie tells her friend that she went to the "Lake" last weekend and that she also had sex. Any horror movie fan knows that one of the rules in horror movies is that "If you have sex you die" immediately after we are told this, the phone rings. This is a huge reference to the movie "Scream" we find out that on the other end of the phone is her mum and there is nothing to worry about at all which is a referance to the "Luton bus technique". after the phone call has finished the TV turns on by itself when only katie is down stairs. She turns it off but it turns on again so she unplugs the TV and walks away. Katie goes upstairs and sees water on the landing, walks into her bedroom then sees the movie on her TV, screams and the scene ends with a very fast montage of images and an image of the ring just before she dies.
we are later in the film introduced to aden whom is Katies cousin. Aden has been acting strangely and drawing pictures of rings and his cousin being killed a week before her death. Adens mum investergates the situation and the death of Katie and finds a camera with photos from last week on that have not been developed yet. the relationship between Aden and his Mum is close as she is a single parent however Adens Mum works alot and "dosent have enough time for Aden"
After the photagraphs are developed