Are Katie and her friends the first to watch the video?
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termigreen — 9 years ago(December 20, 2016 02:59 PM)
Yes, I made a bit of a theory about how Rachel opening the well and setting the spirit free changed the way the victims die on the 7th day.
While not full-fledged omnipresent, she seems to imprint her mark on the minds of whoever watches the tape, holding their lives at stake. A couple of the victims who died at the hands of the 7-day curse were not near televisions on the 7th day; however, they may have suffered a heart attack, another vital sign stopped, or their minds assaulted to oblivion with frightful imagery, in the middle of whatever they were doing, which led them to their death. One of the victims was driving and they got into a fatal accident; another apparently fell from a roof or another high point.
This goes in line with the nightmares, visions and other manifestations Rachel and others experienced after watching the tape. It's also a heck of a way for the spirit to work within its limitations. -
nicksaysboo — 9 years ago(February 03, 2017 06:15 PM)
A great fact that the filmmakers seem to have forgotten about in the sequels. Her crawling out of the television is shown ONCE in the original film, and merely implied with Katie. The other three teenagers had different forms of death according to the reports that Rachel finds.
Meaning she can kill you without you being near some sort of screen.
Furthermore, it does beg the question of what exactly did Rachel finding her in the well do? Aiden implies it was wrong that Rachel helped her, but why? What has now changed? -
nicksaysboo — 9 years ago(February 03, 2017 06:11 PM)
It's never stated that Katie and her friends brought the tape with them.
If anything, it's more implied that they took the tape from the front desk when they checked in, hence it being back there when Rachel finds it.
That way I understood it was that they grabbed the tape (most coverless tapes at the time were considered blank tapes to record things on) and tried to record the game over it, however, as it was the cursed tape, it didn't work.
It's never once stated that Katie's friend purchased a tape and brought it with them. -
NickiDrea — 9 years ago(January 27, 2017 02:37 PM)
I know that one poster strongly disagrees, but I still think that it's pretty obvious that other people have seen the video and the father knows about it.
That hexagon-face bitch, she's so passive-aggressive. -
edwintrinh09 — 9 years ago(January 27, 2017 04:05 PM)
If Katie and her friends were the first to see the cursed videotape according to one very defensive OP, maybe Richard was psychically communicated by Samara since he was her adoptive father? Samara shows people "things" and she only does that to people she's very connected with and Richard is one of them.
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rc1990 — 9 years ago(January 30, 2017 01:37 AM)
and how would Josh know that this video kills. The call only says "Seven days" without any information. Which brings me back to the ring (no pun intended) of Richard Morgan's reaction when he heard that Rachel made a copy.
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edwintrinh09 — 9 years ago(February 01, 2017 02:16 AM)
Samara gives them the abilities to be able to predict their own deaths. Its in the movie. And you might be right about Richard's reaction. Maybe he was the one who first found out the cursed videotape and didn't want to do anything about it by isolating himself.
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nicksaysboo — 9 years ago(February 03, 2017 05:45 PM)
Not at all.
Becca asked Katie in the beginning is she had heard about it, obviously meaning it's been around.
Mr Morgan also asks Rachel if there was more than one copy, sigmifying he was aware of the tape as well.