As The Ring turns 20, rockmarooned looks back at Gore Verbinski’s now-classic film - while Smile pushes its sly Ring redux into theaters:
series, which in turn led into a statelier treatment of demonic forces with themovies, plus its various spin-offs and rip-offs. The bravura technique James Wan brought tocould be seen as an influence on the current wave of quiet, slow-burn genre movies—so-called “elevated” horror.doesn’t exactly bring things full circle . But it does absorb a lot of horror history and let it seep into corners of the movie.
All of these movies, to varying degrees, play like exploitation with flashes of keen intelligence, zig-zagging around the genre’s trend-lines rather than following a straightforward path.ushered out the VHS era while confirming that horror, a genre of sequels and niche movies for much of the previous decade, was going to stick around after; this year’s horror class may similarly make more sense in retrospect, once some additional trends have solidified and been run into a grave.
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