Direct Signals

"The Ring" was chosen number 20 on the cable channel Bravo's list of the 100 Scariest Movie Moments, being #1 "Jaws" by Steven Spielberg: 1. Jaws

In 1974, Steven Spielberg filmed the movie "Jaws" on Martha's Vineyard. Later, some scenes from Jaws 2 and Jaws the Revenge were filmed on the island too. In June, 2005 Martha's Vineyard celebrated the 30th anniversary of "Jaws" - the "JawsFest".

Jake Gyllenhaal in Martha's Vineyard beach, on 7th August 2009.

Jake Gyllenhaal worked as a lifeguard on Martha's Vineyard: "Someone got stung by a jellyfish and I peed on their leg to counteract the sting" he told PEOPLE.

"Digital electronic technologies atomize and abstractly schematize the analogic quality of the photographic and cinematic into discrete pixels and bits of information that are transmitted serially, each bit discontinuous, discontiguous, and absolute — each bit “being in itself” even as it is part of a system. As well, unlike the cinema, the electronic is phenomenologically experienced not as a discrete, centered, intentional projection but rather as a simultaneous, dispersive, and neural/ “neutral” transmission. Thus electronic “presence” as it is experienced by the spectator/user is one further remove from previous referential connections made between the body’s signification and the world’s concrete forms." Source: www.ejumpcut.org

The Ring - Movie Spoiler: "The TV at Noah's place turns on to a static signal. Noah turns it off, but it turns back on to the image of a well in the forest. Water starts to come out of the TV set. Suddenly, a girl starts climbing out of the well".
"I also liked how, in the Japanese version, after the heroine turns off the television she sees a reflection in the screen of Sakada standing behind her, which I’ll bet M. Night Shamalayan ripped off for Signs. The climactic scene in both movies shows the audience how Sadako/Samara makes good on her seventh-day death threat. But in The Ring, Samara is still plagued by a poor TV signal as she waltzes across the ex-husband’s studio floor". Source: acurrie.wordpress.com