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Listen, your heart beats with anticipation, as your hands begin to grip the arms of the chair and you feel slightly out of breath, as your face begins to tighten as your prepare to close your eyes, you feel that tingling on the back of your neck and then all of the sudden , SLASH! In front of you is someone with their entire stomach ripped open, while the killer begins to go to work on her boyfriend. The reaction, your slight of breath, the increase of pulse, the feeling of, "oh my god, she's going to get it." Reactions, triggered by light, sound, an actor's performance, that light glimpse of a shimmer in the shadow, whatever it may be, all tools used by the director or film maker, to capture your screams.
The motion picture, The Ring, is an excellent example of a movie that captures your screams. The Ring is a tale of a tape branded with an urban myth. The myth goes that whom ever watches the tape will die in seven days. Four teenagers fall victim to the tape and rise curiosity in a reporter, Rachel Keller, who ends up finding the tape and watching the tape, which begins her nightmare. The scene, Bad Dream, opens with Rachel talking to her friend on the phone and pouring a glass of water, with a tracking extreme close up on the water and the digetic sound of the water pouring as well as the non-digetic sounds of Rachel speaking and her friend Ruthy speaking on the phone. All seems well and normal when she is done filling her glass as you take a last glance at the clear water pitcher, sitting inconspicuously on the counter full of sparkling clean water, along with some maps telling us she's looking to go somewhere...