10 Horror Movie Secrets You Didn’t Know

10. The Ring - The Cast’s Shadows

There's a lot to be afraid of in Gore Verbinski's The Ring, not least the spate of lesser rip-offs and embarrassing sequels that this terrifying original spawned. Adapted from Hideo Nakata's 1998 original, Ringu, this movie sparked the Hollywood obsession with J-horror remakes for good reason, as it managed to make the Japanese original even scarier in translation.

One spooky detail of the movie that few viewers notice the first time around, though, is the fact that no one in The Ring's cast has a shadow.

In the movie, that is. Pretty sure the actors all cast shadows in reality.

Throughout the film, the cast are carefully lit so as to cast no shadows in most shots, an unusual piece of meticulous cinematography which was a conscious decision on the part of the film's creative team. The filmmakers explained that this tiny, almost impossible-to-pinpoint detail adds a deeply creepy air of surreal wrong-ness to the flick’s look, one which makes the entire story feel weightless and dreamlike.