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Date: 2003-03-26 10:06:40

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ok for all you random shemps....

The Ring is a series of novels written in japan by Suzuki Koji. In the japanese originals there is a prequel.  It explains where samara came from.  Samara had the ability to do nensha (project mental images onto to a media such as film).  When she was 19 her doctor found that she was a hermaphrodite and he killed her by throwing her in a well.  She survived and somehow projected her spirit to be reborn into the body of anna morgan.  by this time she is veneful to say the least and is in fact reborn from anna morgan.  now the tape idea differs from the american version in this way:  in the original novels, Samara projects HERSELF (her DNA and what not) onto these tapes and her DNA is infected with small pox.  Once you watch the tape her DNA travels into your body (through nensha) and you die in 7 days from the small pox virus.  Hollywood has altered the plot some to make it more mysterious and scarier for audiences but I have heard rumors of a prequel which will be similar to the japanese prequel 'ring 0: Birthday'  and the movie will probably come together along this same plot line.  For more info go to http://ringworld.somrux.com/faq2.htm
Its a really great site and clears a lot of things up.