RINGU + Graham Brooks (BARISHI, Witch, and Ordh)!

Name: RINGU + Graham Brooks (BARISHI, Witch, and Ordh)!
Start: 2024-10-26T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Epsilon Spires

Schedule

Sat Oct 26 2024 at 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Epsilon Spires | Brattleboro, VT

THE APOCALYPSE WILL BE TELEVISED SERIES CONTINUES! We dare you to experience the original Japanese horror that began THE RING phenomenon on the big screen! Before the film enjoy a rare, acoustic guitar set from local shredder Graham Brooks of the legendary metal bands BARISHI, Witch, and Ordh!
No stranger to the mystical forces of guitar-driven music, Graham Brooks is a guitarist, composer, producer and educator from Brattleboro, VT. He has played with a slew of local metal bands such as Ordh, BARISHI and Witch. He has performed on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, KEXP, NPR and has toured extensively as a session guitarist with acts like Witch and Sasami Ashworth, and in support of bands such as Japanese Breakfast, HAIM and Mitski. His favorite players are Allan Holdsworth, Jimmy Page and Eddie Van Halen. Graham teaches guitar at his studio in downtown Brattleboro: The Winking Wizard!
THE APOCALYPSE WILL BE TELEVISED! This Halloween season we offer a trifecta of horror about the power of media featuring films paired with live performances!
Monday, October 7th with Poltergeist + MONG TONG (Two blindfolded brothers from Taiwan whose hypnotic soundscapes are inspired by Southeast Asian mythology, folklore and 60's-70s psych.)
Saturday, October 26th with RINGU + Graham Brooks (Ordh, Barishi and Witch)
*TBA We have something very special in the works to end the series on Halloween, Thursday, October 31st- STAY-TUNED!
The original Japanese horor film that started THE RING phenomenon, RINGU is the highest grossing Japanese horror movie in history, and still manages to haunt our minds and shred our nerves with its quiet, phantasmic elegance. Experience the terror for yourself on the big screen, newly restored from the original negative in glorious 4K!
In 1998, director Hideo Nakata (Dark Water) unleashed a chilling tale of technological terror on unsuspecting audiences, which redefined the horror genre, launched the J-horror boom in the West and introduced a generation of moviegoers to a creepy, dark-haired ghost called Sadako. The film's success spawned a slew of remakes, reimaginations and imitators, but none could quite boast the power of Nakata's original masterpiece, which melded traditional Japanese folklore with contemporary anxieties about the spread of technology. A group of teenage friends are found dead, their bodies grotesquely contorted, their faces twisted in terror. Reiko (Nanako Matsushima), a journalist and the aunt of one of the victims, sets out to investigate the shocking phenomenon, and in the process uncovers a creepy urban legend about a supposedly cursed videotape, the contents of which causes anyone who views it to die within a week - unless they can persuade someone else to watch it, and, in so doing, pass on the curse... DO YOU DARE WATCH IT IN OUR HAUNTED SANCTUARY?
A Excerpt from "How Ring predicted the anxieties of the 21st century"- J.Simpson
"While Sadako symbolizes a number of 21st-century fears and anxieties, and most strongly represents anxieties around media and technology, particularly visual technology like cameras, TVs, and film, as well as themes of virality and contagion. One of Ring’s main technological touchpoints is the television, and the film’s most striking and memorable moment is Sadako oozing out of Ryūji’s television to exact her vengeance. Sadako’s unearthly visage serves a poignant metaphor for the increasingly malignant role played by new media in the last 20 years, which seems to be oozing into our living rooms more so than ever before."