The Ring
I consider The Ring to be the first horror I have watched . At that time, I was in one of the final classes of the six-year-old primary school, and it was the first movie of the genre that I watched with my friends from beginning to end. Before that, of course, I happened to see some snippets of other productions, such as the Blair Witch Project , when adults watched them, but I was not allowed to sit with them for too long. In addition, if my memory serves me correctly , I have already managed to see the complete Spirit of 1982 with my family in front of the Circle , but due to the outdated effects and somewhat family character, it did not scare me too much and I do not count it as my “initiation”.
So it was the 2002 American The Ring (I got to the Japanese original later) that became the first “scary movie” that I voluntarily and consciously assimilated, and which in some respects became a model for me for years of what horror is. Perhaps this is where my less than average aversion to jump scares, or the setting of the mental boundary of “watchable” horror films somewhere around the year 2000, comes from here.
Whatever the case, the session was quite touching for my childhood mind. I did not have the classic fear of a lonely night trip to the toilet after it, nor was I afraid that something would come out of my TV … but somehow I lost the desire to walk in the vicinity of a nearby empty building, in front of which stood a forgotten, moss-covered well. – Krzysztof Dzieniszewski
Source: alphacoders.com
