Corrected entry: When you die after 7 days, Samara comes out of the TV to get you. Well, what if you're nowhere near a TV?
Corrected entry: When Rachel has the flashback of Samara being thrown into the well, there is a black bag over her head. In the shot where Samara is in the well right after being thrown in, the bag is gone.
Corrected entry: In the beginning, the main character's cousin is getting a drink of juice. She puts the glass on the kitchen counter, and goes to check out the TV that turns on by itself. She turns it off, and unplugs it, and then goes back to the kitchen and the glass is gone.
Correction: She put it down by the window seperating the living room and the kitchen. So she unplugs the tv and walks back into the kitchen to see the fridge open you see a clear shot of the kitchen counter. Of course her glass is not there cause she didn't leave it there. The shot doesn't show the window where she did leave it.
Corrected entry: When Rachel is in the well holding Samara's skeleton, the camera goes out to show a wider angle. If you look closly you can see that Samara's legs didn't decompose. They are still white with skin.
Correction: She was wearing stockings or something on her legs, I don't think it was Samara's skin.
Corrected entry: Samara gives her victims seven days to live because that's how long she was trapped in the well before dying. The thing is, she had water (albeit not very fresh, but probably drinkable) so she would have lived close to a month before dying of starvation or, more likely, would have asphyxiated after a very short time because there was no air getting into the sealed well.
Correction: She probably died of cold or drowned, because water was too deep to sleep in. Combination of all the factors could easily kill in 7 days.
Corrected entry: This might be a stupid question, but why would anybody build a cabin on top of a well? Wouldn't they first fill it with earth, or at least demolish the wall around it to even the ground? What is the point of building a wall around the well and putting a floor over it; other than having characters drop into it in a spectacular way.
Correction: Samara's family is very ashamed and frightened of her and what they did to her. They built the cabin over the well to hide it rather than risk releasing her by demolishing the well.
Corrected entry: In the scene were Richard Morgan shocks himself in the bathtub you see blood in the water. When you shock yourself there isn't blood.
Correction: On the DVD in the section that says, "Don't Watch This" there is a scene and you can see Mr. Morgan get his head bashed on the wall when he gets shocked and there is blood and the voltage is so high that it would cause you to cough up blood.
Corrected entry: Towards the end of the film when they discover the well under cottage 12 they drop a stone down the well. They listen for about 10 seconds and do not hear the splash suggesting that the well is really deep. When the woman falls down the well then looks up to see the bloke shouting to her, the well is only about 30 feet deep.
Correction: Listen more closely, there's a distinct splash after a few seconds.
Corrected entry: In the scene where the boy is watching the video, you can see Samara begin to climb from the well at the end of the tape. When anybody else watches it, in other scenes, the screen goes fuzzy before you see Samara.
Correction: The reason being is that we are seeing it from Rachel's perspective. Samara is beginning to emerge from the well because it is showing the progression of Rachel's curse since her son watched the tape a few days after she did. Had she watched it on the final day, it may have shown Samara completely emerging. However, that would spoil the ending.
Corrected entry: In the end of the movie you see the well that Anna Morgan throws Samara in. This well is on the horse ranch, on the island. Yet, the well underneath Shelter Mountain Inn at Cabin 12 is a long way from there as is indicated by the fact it takes them one day to get from the island to Cabin 12. Am I just missing something here or is that a serious loop hole?
Correction: The well isn't on Anna's horse ranch, it's a vacation spot for the Morgans.
Corrected entry: If making a copy of the tape "releases" Rachel from Samara's "grasp", why does the burned handprint on Rachel's arm disapear only when Rachel finds Samara in the well?
Correction: The handprint remains until her 'time to die' has passed.
Corrected entry: How can Becca tell if Naomi saw the tape, and that she has four days left? Did Samara talk with Becca, or does she have any special sense? That is never cleared in the film.
Corrected entry: Katie says they watched the tape after recording a football game on it. The guy at the cabin said that they have VCR's and tapes there because they get no TV reception. Why would they try to record the game off a TV without reception?
Correction: He says the reception is poor, they might have TV sometimes but not always, and if there was some reception the night Katie's friends were there they might have given recording a try.
Corrected entry: In the scene were Samara's dad trys to electrocute himself he is wearing a surge protector which would make it impossible to electrocute himself no matter how hard he tried.
Correction: Richard Morgan was plugging everything into a standard power strip, not a "surge protector" or "surge strip".
Corrected entry: After Naomi Watts shows the video to her ex-husband, why didn't she take a picture of him with her digital camera, to see if his face was all messed up? Why did he wait five days to take pictures of himself?
Correction: Naomi Watts doesn't take Noahs photo because initially he is very sceptical and unbelieving. Also he doesn't wait 5 days to take his photo, but rather takes his photo after he notices his face is blurred on the store security screen.
Corrected entry: How did the mother of Samara lift the concrete lid to close the well when it was obvious that the two other characters had a hard time trying to close it together?
Correction: Although we don't see him, we might assume that Samara's father helped Anna replace the well lid, as he suffered the similar torments (he explains before he kills himself).
Corrected entry: In the scene where Rachel sees Aiden's teacher, she pulls out a chair to sit on, but instead she decides to sit on the desk. What's the point in pulling out a chair that you won't sit on?
Correction: Racheal pulls out the chair and realises that the chair is too small then decides to sit on the desk.
Corrected entry: By the end of the movie it is pretty obvious that the only way to save yourself from dying is by making a copy of the video. Rachel does this and then she goes to the mental institute to talk to Becca where Becca tells her that she still has four days left. How is this possible if she already made the copy of the tape?
Correction: Rachel has to both copy the tape and show it to someone else; copying the tape alone is insufficient.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Naomi Watts and her ex-husband are in the loft in the barn, they rip down the wallpaper to reveal the tree on the wall. When they take a wide shot, you see they ripped it all the way to the ceiling. How did they reach that high without the help of a ladder?
Correction: It is quite possible to pull it all down by pulling large pieces with the bottom down low and having it rip higher.
Corrected entry: In the first scene, when Katie gets killed, she is standing up in front of her door. But later, when her mom is talking about her death, she was curled up in the closet. How can that happen if the victim's hearts are supposed to just stop beating? Did Samara pick her up and put her there? Also, Noah was crawling on the floor when he was killed, but when Rachel walks into his studio, he's sitting on a chair.
Correction: It was widely known that Samara/Sanako was able to hide her victims through the same powers she used to kill them. Telekinesis actually is used for moving any solid structure as well, so the bodies could be moved.
Correction: In the original book Samara could emerge from any reflective surface. All characters in this version happened to be near TV's, but it is not stated that this is the only way for her to appear.
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