The Ring

The Ring (2002)

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Corrected entry: The cabin that the teenagers stayed in, which was built over the well, is shown to be on the edge of a heavily forested valley. But in scene where Anna Morgan kills Samara, the well is in a huge open flat field.

Correction: The field where the mother pushes Samara into the well is very small width-wise, you can see a forest in the background.

Corrected entry: When Rachel is telling Noah about the video, it is first visible on the table in front of her. About a minute later, she pulls it out of her purse.

Correction: What lies on the table is not the tape, it's in fact the camera with which later Noah takes Rachel's picture.

Corrected entry: I haven't seen "Ringu", but how did Noah and Katie end up looking like they did after they died? Okay, so Samara used telekinesis and stopped their hearts, but the victims' bodies can't corrode that quickly...so what did Samara do to them so they look like that?

Correction: Samara died after spending seven days in the well, and there is always water when she kills somebody, so her victims look like they were in the water for sometime after they die.

Corrected entry: When Katie is talking to Becca in her room, we see a shot of a clock. The clock says that it is 10 o'clock. After this Katie and Becca go downstairs and the movie plays on until Katie dies. When Rachel goes to investigate into Katie's death, she finds out the time of death was 10 o'clock. But Katie didn't die when we saw the clock and it said 10 o'clock, in fact about 15 mins passed before she actually dies.

Correction: The time of death is an approximation.

Your right, but Samara doesn't go by approximation and it was implied that they watched it at 10 or else the camera wouldn't have zoomed in on it at exactly 10 pm.

Correction: Right but the camera zoomed in on the clock at exactly 10pm to imply that's the time she watched the tape at the Shelter mountain inn, so therefore she should have died at 10 exactly, so in hindsight the clock should have maybe said 9.55pm, because she could die at 10 which is 5 min later, which is when she died in the movie, Also, where was Samara when Katie died? There was no Samara. The end of the movie you see Noah die... but Samara had to come through the TV in order to kill him, which did not happen with Katie, there was no Samara in her bedroom.

Factual error: In the scene where Noah analyses the tape, he says that the 'timecode' seems to be invalid and says that every tape has a track where you can see what device was used to record it, etc. The video technology explanation originates from the original, Ringu, with the plot of The Ring changed to make it more applicable to average Americans. But a VHS tape does not have a special track for timecode. It is possible to lay a timecode onto the tape in either an analogue form via a special audio channel, or as digital information on lines 16 and 18 of the vertical interval. But this 'timecode' is only used for professional video editing. A standard VCR, like the one they were playing the tape on, does not use this, and therefore makes Noah's explanation a minute of utter nonsense.

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Dr. Scott: You don't want to hurt anyone.
Samara Morgan: But I do, and I'm sorry. It won't stop. Everyone will suffer.

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Trivia: Between some scenes you can see a flash of the ring, as seen at the beginning of the tape (and what Rachel sees when she looks up in the well as the lid is pushed back on).

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Chosen answer: She says "Daddy loves the horses...but he doesn't know" meaning she knows what's about to happen to all his horses. (Because she makes them commit suicide).

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