Corrected entry: When Noah and Rachel point flashlights into the well, they don't seem to be able to see the bottom. Later, when Rachel falls inside, Noah's flashlight beam reaches both her and the water.
Corrected entry: After the TV strikes Rachel in the chest and she falls down the well, you can clearly see her head violently striking the stone side of the well with enough force to shatter a motorcycle helmet. Later, Rachel is alive, not bleeding, and strangely doesn't even seem to have a headache.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Rachel and Noah are in his apartment, they both struggle over the operation of the video equipment. The tape shoots out of the player, ruining it. After Noah's "assistant" comes in, he invites her to look at the tape. Rachel ejects the tape quickly and puts the tape in her purse, just as it was before.
Correction: The tape did not shoot out of the player. A frame by frame analysis confirms this. They were adjusting the speed of the video drum, which normally rotates at 1800 rpm, by pressing their fingers against it and slowing it down. Rachel obviously hit her finger against one of the high speed screws on the top of the video drum. After, we can see her feeling her finger because of the pain. Also, the tape shooting out of the player would be highly improbable since the tape was paused and not moving while being held in place by the tape guides. The tape was still in good condition and not ruined.
Corrected entry: When Rachel leafs through Katie's notebook the last entry is a drawing of the Ring. Katie drew it with such force that the pen made a hole in the paper, but when Rachel turns the page the next sheet is in pristine condition. (00:50:50)
Correction: If you watch carefully (especially in slow motion), you can see that Rachel turns about 5 pages instead of one. Of course, we were not meant to see this as it was meant to be the last thing Katie drew, and to have pen marks on the other page would spoil the effect. But indeed, Katie used such force that you can still see a dent on the open page anyway.
Corrected entry: The night Katie dies she & Becca are sitting in her bedroom. Katie tells Becca that she watched the tape that weekend and later on that night Katie dies due to the evil tape. People die one week after watching it, so it must be the following weekend, after she watched the tape, but the two girls are dressed in their school uniforms.
Correction: If Katie watched it on a Friday night, then it would make sense that she would still have her uniform on the following Friday night, after the school day.
Corrected entry: When Aidan goes to the house of his cousin, he looks up the stairs. Just before he heads up, you can see a shadow of two hands folding, belonging to a crew member.
Correction: The shadow mentioned belongs to one of the people behind Aiden.
Corrected entry: The woman comes out of her ex-husband's flat and nearly walks under a ladder. A wide shot of the ladder shows that it's simply standing against the wall leading nowhere. Next, a man appears and begins to climb the ladder with a cup of coffee in one hand.
Correction: It's likely that the man climbing the ladder was painting the wall, instead of climbing through to a window. He may have had a paintbrush or a small can of paint with him.
Corrected entry: When Noah first runs into Aiden on the street before he goes up to Rachel's appartment to view the tape for the first time, it is raining very hard and Noah has on a rain coat with a hood. But when he leaves Rachel's appartment, he is wearing a regular coat, not the rain coat that he came with.
Correction: You can see the raincoat folded over his arm in the hallway as he's leaving.
Corrected entry: Near the end, when Rachel and Noah get back home, Aidan's aunt is laying on the floor sleeping. If you look in the window you can see a man walk past the window and then walk past it again.
Corrected entry: When Rachel is in the well, Noah leaves her and the lid shuts. When he comes back, the lid is off as he leans in and calls out to her. We never hear the lid being pushed off, although it makes a very audible grinding sound.
Correction: it is quite possible that the lid didn't REALLY close, it was simply a vision of what Samara saw when she was thrown down the well.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Katie walks up the steps and the water is dripping from the doorknob, there is a zoom in of the water dripping and you can see that the doorknob is clear and it has a weird "diamond-like" shape to it. However, at Katie's funeral when Aiden walks up to her door and the camera shows the same shot of the doorknob, the knob is visibly round.
Correction: When I watched this scene, they didn't show the same shot of the handle. The inside glass knob was shown, and it was still octagonal. The outside handle was only partly shown and looked blurry, so it might have appeared round.
Corrected entry: The first time we see the whole tape is at Shelter Mountain Inn. There is an image of a chair fairly early on in the tape, where it stays still, then moves randomly, and rapidly, upside down before switching to the next image. However, when Rachel is later copying the tape for Noah, the chair spins slowly upside down before switching to the next image.
Correction: The tape is also not a normal tape, as it was created by a psychotic, insomniac, murdering ghost. If Samara can come through your TV screen and kill you, without the tape being around you, why can't she change it as you see it for some foreshadowing, i.e. Spinning Noah's body around in the chair?
Corrected entry: In the scene where Rachel is "taken back" in Samara's memory to the day that Anna pushes Samara into the well, look at Samara's eyes when she opens them after hitting the water at the bottom. Her eyes are Daveigh Chase's natural blue, not the brown eyes that we are shown all throughout the rest of the film. (01:32:11)
Corrected entry: A huge plot defect when Naomi burned the original tape at the end of the film ,so why not burn the other two tapes or at least if she can burn the original tape after making a copy of it so what's the idea of making a copy ,there still be only one tape left anyway.
Correction: The only way that you can be saved is to make a copy, and show it to someone.
Corrected entry: When Noah and Rachel reach the upstairs of the barn to Samara's old room, her carousel is playing even though no one has probably been up in that room in years. Noah and Rachel don't find this strange, not when it magically starts playing, nor when it magically stops.
Correction: They are trying to stop being killed by a video tape curse, so at that point I think they aren't surprised by anything.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Katie and Becca are in the room watching TV at the beginning of the movie, Katie is lying on the bed barefoot. Later when you see her upstairs walking towards the door with the water coming from underneath it, you can see that she is wearing shoes and socks, and you never see her putting shoes or socks on between those two scenes.
Correction: Ok, I've watched this part a few times to get it right. Katie is barefoot throughout the whole time she is alive and dead for that fact. She never had on socks or shoes.
Corrected entry: When Rachel is in the computer room she picks the fly out of the screen, when the lady comes in to the room her nose starts to bleed, she wipes her nose and blood pours on her hand. When she rips the picture out of the machine with the same hand there is no blood on it.
Correction: The dissapearing blood was probably not a mistake, because, like the fly appearing on the screen only once, it is representing the "magic" if you will, and mystery of the film. The mysterious blood disappears for the same reason that the fly appeared out of nowhere.
Corrected entry: In the archive of her newspaper Rachel has to stretch herself to get an old book from the top shelf. It falls out of her hands and disintegrates, looking more like a folder (in this shot also the way she is holding it changes), but when she sits down and studies the book is intact again. (00:42:00)
Corrected entry: In the scene where the mother throws Samara into the well, she moves what appears to be a very heavy lid over the well. Where did the lid come from? You don't see it in any of the shots of the girl and the well.
Correction: You never directly see Samara's mother move the lid, nor is it suggested that the lid was placed on top immediately. It could have been hours or even days before Samara's mother and father found a suitable lid and brought it to the well.
Corrected entry: The creepy dead girl tells Aidan that the horses keep her up at night. Strange how a girl who we are told numerous times never ever sleeps, and is also dead, and at the bottom of a well not even on the island where the horses used to be, is complaining to some kid about horses keeping her awake nights.
Correction: The light does reach the bottom, it just is hard to see because of the blackness of the floor and walls through the water.