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Eternal life… Sounds like fun doesn’t it?

An endless existence, time to do anything you want, be anything you like. To never age, to never worry about disease or death, to never see the sun…

The flipside for the vampires in We Are The Night is they all retain a large amount of their humanity. These aren’t the cold demonic and logical elders you see in so many horror movies, these are people with guilt, longings and a skewed set of scruples. They feel pain and in the case of the character in this clip, the years have weighed heavy and it’s time to bow out in way that befits someone who in a past life was an actress of the silent screen, dramatically facing the rising sun like it’s the final curtain call.

WE ARE THE NIGHT HITS UK DVD 15TH OCT 2012

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AN INSATIABLE THIRST – CLIP EXCLUSIVE

Over to Asia now for a film that did more than most to usher in a popular wave of Japanese Horror at the turn of the last century – Ringu… A film that at the time felt very fresh. Packed with atmosphere, the work is an exercise in restraint when it’s held up against the MTV-inspired gothic overload of its American contemporaries such as Stigmata or the cliche ridden teen slashers which had returned to dominate cinemas.

The Ringu used degraded video footage to terrifying the audience with a new and refreshing concept, a cursed tape that worked like a toxic chain letter, killing those who viewed the grainy footage of a drowned girl clawing her way out of well found within. The vengeful spirit features heavily in Japanese culture and the Ringu series helped to bring about a huge surge in interest for the supernatural cinema of Japan, Its simple, low budget efficiency and carefully constructed atmosphere of growing dread mean there’s no need for flashy but eventually dating special effects of the kind seen in US supernatural films of the time like the re-makes of House on Haunted Hill, 13 Ghosts or The Haunting.

Ringu has one of the modern horror eras most instantly recognisable nightmare visions, that of a straggle haired girl, crawling disjointedly out of a TV set to literally scare someone to death. It never gets tired.