The Ring -Cliche-

The Ring (2002), a remake of Hideo Nakata's 1998 Ring, is a horror movie that introduces the west to all the cliches that are so popular in the east, and that are now popular everywhere. It is the only American Horror movie that is scarier than the movie its based on.

Firstly in the opening two minutes we see that it is night time in a mansion, this is a horror cliche showing that someone spoilt lives there. As we see, there are two teenage girls who are home alone at night time, from the sound of their voices where they use 'Yeah' and 'like' in a sort of annoying manner, these two are the popular girls. This is a cliche of that in many other horror films, the popular people are the ones to die first, from what they talk about, which is the "Tape" which once you watch it, you get a phone call from the so called "Undead" saying that you have only 7 days to live, this sets it up as that as people would know from other horror movies, they soon die. One of the girls has already watched the so called "Tape" 7 days ago and starts protending that it isnt real and the other girl thinks its all fun and games and that shes playing a joke on her. But sadly, in this film, that was not the case.

Before the movie starts, we have the cliche of the Dreamworks introducion logo, just silent, with the sound of rain which gives us the impression of a horror movie and makes it more dramatic than just havving the usual introduction from dreamworks with happy music etc.

Within the first two minutes, we already get the impression that later on in the scene, someones about to die, this cliche happens in many other horror films.