It just kinda hit me that the origins of analog horror can be traced back to The Ring of all things. Sadako's tape is pretty much the first-ever instance of analog horror.
- Recorded on analog hardware (A VHS tape)
- Eerie, supernatural imagery
- Tied to something not human and supernatural
- Features a distorted humanoid figure (Sadako was born deformed)
- Some premises are about something coming out of the screen to kill you (Something Sadako's Curse does)
making series with odd numbers of characters stick out even more.