the ring tape

shows a panorama of odd and disturbing images relating to Sadako's past, Samara's barnyard chair begins to spin upside down.

The suicidal ferry horse breaks its back legs when it jumps off the ferry, representing its helplessness and perhaps Samara's.

It is at this point that Rachel learns of Jake's death and sneaks into an ambulance to find his deformed body.

The tape is destroyed and Samara's spirit flies to the Keller house where she later possesses Aidan's body.

Samara touches her, throwing Rachel into an vision of herself in the Eola County Psychiatric Hospital.

The mirror suddenly shifts to the other side of the wall, Samara reflected in the mirror. Included only in Don't Watch This. The next image is of thrashing black plastic, that of the garbage bag used to suffocate Samara by Anna. The same with Noah Clay; he was killed on the floor, but his body was found a few feet away in his chair, surrounded by water. The incision spills a larger amount of blood. Next are three brief shots of a nail with a drop of blood on it. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. The victim is left with a deformed, waterlogged face. It should be noted that those shown killed directly by Samara (at least in the first movie.) She extends her arms and falls off, committing suicide. Aidan's experiences were not shown but he mentioned that Samara showed him images that he later drew but also burnt him at one point.

The most effective symptom is fear, driving victims to go to extremes to make other people watch the video, like ringing tons of people or going to a place with more than one screen, like an electronics store. She realizes that she had to copy the tape and show it to someone else in order to escape the curse and helps Aidan copy the tape. The virus also contains a strand of Sadako's DNA, which can be fertilised and lead to her resurrection as seen in the second novel In the films, after the viewer finishes watching the tape, the phone will ring if they are in If they die of the curse, their spirit may appear as an onryo like Sadako and try to kill other people to turn their other spirits int Onryos and cause the Onryo Apocalypse by making them watch the tape (Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. The chair is moved aside as an abnormally large centipede emerges from under the table and crawls off. There are two versions of the cursed video: the theatrical release and a bonus DVD feature titled "Don't Watch This".

Katie claims she watched the tape with three friends a week ago. She died but like Sadako, rose again as a vengeful spirit seeking Okazaki after he promised to watch the tape … The tape begins with static, which fades in and out, as if attempting to gain a signal.

Included only in Don't Watch This. The nose bleeds could represent injuries done to Samara, and the drawings may stem from the viewers' need to figure out what the images mean.

In Don't Watch This, only the sound of waves are heard. The animal may symbolize Samara's suffering in the world, or her apparent freak-show elements that isolated her from others. It seems people who are cursed terrify or disturb animals like horses or deer.

Also, when Jake's deadline arrived, instead of Samara emerging from the tape world to kill him, Jake at least partially entered the tape world, where Samara killed him. Running to the lounge, he finds Emily did not watch the tape and closed her eyes. In the theatrical release, a piercing sound remains over the shot, but in Don't Watch This only the sound of maggots crawling is heard. The Shelter Mountain Inn tree, appearing to be on fireA tree is then shown on fire. Three days on, at Katie's funeral, Rachel learns of the tape and later visits Cabin 12, finding and watching the tape and her seven day curse begins. Then there is a still image of a small box with the lid off.

Dark red spheres gather together in the center of the frame. Included only in Don't Watch This. Directed by Gore Verbinski. The virus is a mutated smallpox virus mixed with Sadako Yamamura's DNA and will ultimately give the victim a heart attack seven days on, activated by Sadako when she attacks a victim. Samara then appears in the tape world, where she emerges from the well and slowly walks towards the screen, and eventually crawls or walks out of the television screen, pursues her target and then kills them by scaring them to death with her decayed face. The tape's images are a playback on Samara's life. The video tape's curse was created by Samara likely after her death in the well. White fabric is sliced through with thin knife. The black dot also explodes, the frame turning dark red and black.

Most effects appear in the form of disturbing, nensha-like powers.

In Ring 2, she gains psychic powers but dies after Ishi Kawajiri tries to remove them.

Zooming out, there's a mouth with intestines being pulled out of it. As her week passes by, Rachel investigates the tape's origins, eventually learning of the Morgans and visiting Richard at the ranch and he later commits suicide. A brief image follows of the horse's eye staring in horror. In Seattle, teenagers Katie Embry and Becca Kotler discuss the legend of a cursed videotape; whoever watches it dies seven days later.