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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes Pic!
Yesterday I ran a BTS shot of a very young Rick Baker creating the baby from It’s Alive and today I wanted to keep that Baker thread going since I had a good shot of the master hard at work on the RING remake.
While I do prefer the original (especially since I saw it on VHS back in the good old days before you knew about everything being made everywhere before it’s even shooting), Gore Verbinski’s Ring remake is really strong and Baker’s work on it is the very definition of unsettling.
So here’s Mr. Baker hard at work inspiring many nightmares. Thanks to Pat Barnett for this one. Click to enlargen!
If you have a behind the scenes shot you’d like to submit to this column, you can email me at quint@aintitcool.com.
Tomorrow’s pic features one of cinema’s biggest womanizers playing one of literature’s biggest womanizers!
-Eric Vespe
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... The Ring sucked.
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The Ring II (sequel to the remake) I did not like. I think I checked out around the time the possessed deer attacked. Or maybe before, I don't know, that's all I remember about the movie.
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He plays Eugene O'Neill in REDS. Also, didn't know Baker did The Ring but the makeup in it horrified me in a good way.
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Sept. 22, 2012, 2:01 p.m. CST
Actually just this very shot was the best scare in the movie
by BenBraddock
The girl's horrendous corpse, and the way its head kind of dropped to one side, in that quick shot really gave me major chills. Great makeup work!
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The make-up, the slack jaw, the little head bob...everything about it. I've seen that movie countless times and I still get goosebumps every time it cuts to her. And I have to say, I prefer the remake to the OG in this situation.
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when they remake a film just because the original had a mostly non-white cast or it was in a foreign language, i tend to avoid it completely.
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Sept. 22, 2012, 2:31 p.m. CST
Much better than the original. Remake whiners can keep on whining. They're the ones missing out on a very well made film. Also...
by Jay
to keep in style with the obvious hipster attitude... I read the original Ring novel before there was even a movie to be put out on VHS. So there...
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Sept. 22, 2012, 2:38 p.m. CST
if only RICK BAKER was left-handed, we could have a better shot of the makeup application
by Tigger Tales
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verbinski's ring is a rare example of a remake outdoing its progenitor. unrelatedy, my experience seeing this was so much fun. i was 15 at the time, and my mom withdrew me from class to see it on a weekday afternoon. so rad. (saw it on a dark, rainy day in seattle, no less -- the perfect setting.)
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Sept. 22, 2012, 2:57 p.m. CST
enlargen?! what the hell is that? we only know of embiggening
by zom-bot.com
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Sept. 22, 2012, 2:58 p.m. CST
Before you die, you see the remake-that's-not-as-good-as-the-original.
by buggerbugger
The original was truly eerie and creepy, the US remake was - unsurprisingly - US-horror-movie-by-numbers.
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I still miss Rob Bottin though.
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Sept. 22, 2012, 3:27 p.m. CST
I remember watching this in a packed theater and girls were crying afer this scene aired LOL
by Chris
it made me jump thats for sure
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Sept. 22, 2012, 3:30 p.m. CST
Better than the original. I thought the changes to the story were for the best. I thought the images in the were more disturbing
by FreeBeer
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Sept. 22, 2012, 3:31 p.m. CST
And I liked that they added the idea that the images in the video were actually a puzzle to be solved. Sequel sucked though, but so did the sequel to Ringu
by FreeBeer
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The only movies worth watching are 98's Ringu and 02's The Ring. Some of the originals sequels were just painful to sit through. Ditto for the prequel. They're all a blur to me. Perhaps one day in the future I'll revisit them. The American sequel was also quite poor. If you're a fan though, the original novels by Suzuki are certainly worth a look. I even had the Dreamcast game.
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and the burning ring of fire
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...Seriously, all I have to do is mention the name of this movie A WHOLE DECADE LATER, and she sleeps like shit for a week... It really got under her skin... And she was in her 30's when she saw it! Definitely better than the original...
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Sept. 22, 2012, 4:17 p.m. CST
jamf, then I suppose you've never seen The Magnificent Seven, eh?
by Nasty In The Pasty
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my wife at the time and I saw it...later that week she fell asleep on the couch, I turned the tv on full blast on a static channel and hid around the corner.....she totally freaked looking around like a crazed woman! hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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don't care if they are better than the foreign originals.
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can you give us some information please?
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And that's not something I generally write. Let the Right One In, Girl w/ Dragon Tattoo, Ju-On - in each case, I preferred the originals. Like many of those movies, the Ring (US) is essentially the same film, but in this case it was more streamlined. Better pacing. The investigation moves along quicker, doesn't let you go, keeps you stressed out. And because it wasn't set in Japan, the settings are more remote and isolated, making it more lonely. The cabin, the island, the farm, the well...everywhere the protagonist was taken was farther away and more surreal. It was just a more effective movie. And, let me point out, I really like the original too. Just prefer the US version.
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Sept. 22, 2012, 6:08 p.m. CST
Judenw- You don't care that a remake might be better than the original?
by JustinJump
You still won't watch it? That's the dumbest shit I've ever heard. So you've never seen John Carpenter's The Thing? Cronenberg's Fly? Or any of the many other remakes that surpassed the originals? What a shitty film fan.
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Sept. 22, 2012, 6:09 p.m. CST
Judenw- Also, no. Why would we give you information as to why the remake is better?
by JustinJump
Watch it for yourself. Or, don't watch it, and never know why we think it's better than the original. Grow up and stop being contrary just to be contrary.
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Sept. 22, 2012, 6:13 p.m. CST
Quint - you don't do NEARLY enough Jurassic Park behind the scenes...
by wcolbert
I'd really love to see some that haven't made the rounds so many times. Which is pretty difficult considering I've probably seen the movie over 200 times, literally, since i was a kid....(most of those times between the ages of 9 and 15)...and I had picture books on the production, trading cards, the whole works. perhaps some of Crash McCreery working, or Jack Horner consulting with Spielberg. I didn't have the guts when I met him to ask him about working with Spielberg on the movies or if he even visited the sets much - being star struck by meeting the man whos work I'd read since I was a wee one. Or better - get some shots of the animatronic rex! I can never get enough of those...there's just something so insanely cool about a 10,000 lb foam rubber skinned dinosaur being toweled off by a crew member. MAN I want that job.
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Sept. 22, 2012, 6:16 p.m. CST
The US remake had stuff that didn't make sense and tried too hard with the scare gags- Fail for me.
by vetepalapinga
"Oh she let's you live for seven days because that's how long it took for her to die"- oh thank you so much for pulling that out of your ass, blonde woman. Thanks for explaining absolutely everything by the end of the film. Speaking of women, a woman is what pops out from the tv set, not a fucking unscary girl, the gag that they total shit on anyway because blonde woman already pulled out a fly from the tape an hour earlier.Those who liked the remake can go fuck their room temperature selves to death.
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Justify that death if you can.
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There, justified. Cripes, it's amateur hour around here.
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Samara was forced to sleep in the barn (Rather important part of the movie) and because of the noise she was unable to sleep. Hence why after her death, all the horse went insane and died. She killed them. Remember in the video there is a clip of the dead horses washed up on the shore. Rachel was already cursed, and the closer she got got to Samara, the stronger the curse (For lack of a better term) got. Hence all the foreshadowing within the film. The horse going crazy and committing suicide is one of many things that happen to Rachel. And It all foreshadows what happened to Samara.
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It actually occurs with direct relation to the story being told.
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It's production value (and budget) was way higher but the damn thing just wasn't scary. So many choices that were made just didn't work for me and made the movie a lot less effective then the original. One example would be the tape itself, the original was full of strange and rather disturbing images, the re-make version looked like a film made by an pretentious art house student.
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Bollocks. New recipe = weak sauce.
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Sept. 22, 2012, 7:17 p.m. CST
If I wasnt paying attention I wouldn't have remembered all the bullshit in the movie, kids.
by vetepalapinga
The whole point of the curse is that it affects only those who watch the tape. That means the girl who was hanging around the first victim in the beginning shouldn't magically know anything about how the curse is working. Were you saying something about not paying attention, bitches?
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Sept. 22, 2012, 7:20 p.m. CST
Talking about the horse on the ferry. Sorry didn't specify that.
by vetepalapinga
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Sept. 22, 2012, 7:48 p.m. CST
Typical condensing attitude when he gets corrected. Now referring to us as kids...
by Jay
I guess that makes you the lone adult arguing with kids on the Internet over The Ring. God, forums are amusing. You asked a stupid question, and it accurately got answered. Man up, buddy boy.
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Sept. 22, 2012, 8:24 p.m. CST
I was only addressing you and justinjump. If you're trying to have other gang up against me it's you who should man up.
by vetepalapinga
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That's my 2-bits worth.
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Sept. 22, 2012, 8:42 p.m. CST
I can't believe he goes to all that detail for something that only probably lasts a second on screen
by DementedCaver
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Yeah yeah I've taken a giant shit on the movie but Baker is awesome.
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But easily the best in that rash of Asian horror remakes that hit us in the mid-2000's; it wasn't so slavish to the original that it was irrelevant (Dark Water), and it didn't screw up the ending so badly that the remakers clearly missed the point of the original (The Uninvited/A Tale of Two Sisters, One Missed Call). Like the other decent (but non-horror) Asian remake of the time (The Departed), they got the important points across, and modified the backstory to something that fit the American setting and gave the film its own spin.
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Sept. 22, 2012, 9:49 p.m. CST
I don't understand what it is about 'scary children' that terrifies American viewers so much...
by NZPoe
One swift sharp kick and BOOM evil kid is no more. And if the kid can't be dealt to with a bootheel, then really what does it matter if the thing killing you is a fully grown person or a small child? Original Japanese version wins in this case. It's way more atmospheric, it moves in directions that are not predictable, it sublimates the Hollywood cliches of horror into something very different (remember the amazing sound design and music?) and Sadako is just damn terrifying. The Hollywood remake is just too paint-by-numbers. The 'race against time' as Naomi Watts is getting in her car and roaring across the city to save Martin Henderson; please -- that's the same ending David Fincher rejected for SE7EN.
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The Japanese one explains too much and I don't care for the explanation it provides.
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It includes that xenophobia aspect which just amps up the scary for me.
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Sept. 23, 2012, 7:51 a.m. CST
I liked THE RING but I think THE GRUDGE is the scariest movie I've ever seen
by Autodidact
I still get a bit scared in bed at night sometimes just thinking about THE GRUDGE.
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FEARDOTCOM is a very interesting movie. I didn't find the movie all that great. But it really stuck with me as far as the visuals and mood/atmosphere. It's a very wet and smelly looking movie. Ebert in his review says something like the last 15 minutes turn into a proper german expressionistic nightmare.
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Sept. 23, 2012, 10:45 a.m. CST
Saw the remake, never saw the original but I read the book...
by phifty2
...very good read. Are the sequels (books) any good?
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Sept. 23, 2012, 10:50 a.m. CST
I think the Grudge remake works because it wasn't quite a remake
by themikejonas
Of the "original," but more of a mashup of the four original Ju-on/Grudge films that preceded the remake. With four predecessors to draw from (not to mention the benefit of having the original director, the Japanese setting, and an exact duplicate of the house), they were able to put together a "greatest hits" package with elements of the different movies, with a dash of Western sensibility to keep the plot understandable for American audiences.
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What do you mean the Japanese one explains too much? I thought the American was way the one that explained way more about how, what, where and why all this happened. They added a lot more backstory, showed the evil girl more clearly then the original. So please tell me how the original explains more then the American one...
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Don't know what all the fuss was about. It's about as effective as a an honest politician. "Ringu", "Grudge": complete and utter nonsense! The remake by Gore Verbinski on the other hand was no better; it had it's moments but was still unfulfilling. Yet it had a creepy score by Hans Zimmer; that's all i can afford it.
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. . . and, uh-oh, I never saw the original. Made for a wonderful date for my future wife and I. This scene Baker's working towards was a cheap scare w/ the loud noise/music, but man did it freak us out and keep us on edge for the rest of the film.
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. . . and, uh-oh, I never saw the original. Made for a wonderful date for my future wife and I. This scene Baker's working towards was a cheap scare w/ the loud noise/music, but man did it freak us out and keep us on edge for the rest of the film.
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. . . and, uh-oh, I never saw the original. Made for a wonderful date for my future wife and I. This scene Baker's working towards was a cheap scare w/ the loud noise/music, but man did it freak us out and keep us on edge for the rest of the film.
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I thought Ringu and the American version were both pretty bad and not at all scary (of the two, Ringu was better). Today's horror just doesn't hit me the same. I think the Saw movies are the worst thing to happen in horror, but near constant remakes are a close second.
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i had my tv set as an alarm to wake me and i didn't have cable. so i woke up to loud static on my tv. freaked me the hell out.
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