Her of the long black hair and white clothes, Sadako Yamamura is the chief mischief maker in Ringu. She has strong psychic powers that she wants to propagate via the haunting of a videotape with weird, symbolic footage on it. Anyone who watches the tape will die exactly a week later unless they copy the evil tape and pass it on to another person. The origins behind Sadako's rage and tape haunting lie in the fact that she was thrown down a well and left to die there because of her very strong supernatural powers. When the week is up, and if her victims are still alive and haven't copied the tape, Sadako may appear to the victim. In the most memorable and iconic Sadako moment, she climbs out of a television screen and her victim dies of fright. This seems to be how she kills her victims - through sheer fright. They all have features twisted in anguish and terror after they die. Throughout the Ringu series, there is considerable debate as to who Sadako's father is and why was she put in the well. But no sequels could be scarier than the first Ringu, in which Sadako makes her presence felt through the television screen. That scene terrified cineastes the world over and ensured Sadako's icon status.
My first film watched was Carrie aged 2 on my dad's knee. Educated at The University of St Andrews and Trinity College Dublin. Fan of Arthouse, Exploitation, Horror, Euro Trash, Giallo, New French Extremism. Weaned at the bosom of a Russ Meyer starlet. The bleaker, artier or sleazier the better!
