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Date: 2002-12-02 11:42:20

Comment:

When Noah get's to the tape of Samara's 'treatmant' he poses as Samara's father, only to find out that the tape had been checked out by none other than....Samara's father....BUT there was a list of people before Samara's father on the checkout slip.  Could it be possible that included on the tape (ok...so just go with this one for a sec...since Samara thinks stuff...and it 'just happens') that a copy or later condensed version of her lab tape contained the images that we see in the movie, and that one of the doctors or lab techs was actually the first to see this footage....it struck them as EXTREMELY unusual footage..maybe even that they didn't remember it being there before and then.....you guessed it....RING RING "thank you for calling the seven days hotline" LOL...ok so they copy the tape...or through the process of these techies playing with it it leaks out as an 'odditie', but before anyone can really do anything with it, they keep dropin' like flies.  Samara's father last checked out the tape and had it when Rachel gets there...maybe he saw part of it that she didn't ...and he knew (like other people suggested) that she was evil and when the phone rang earlier for him the tape had hit it's end, auto rewound (ok go with it for a sec...i know it was an OLD VCR...the tape was the only way we knew it wasnt BETA...lol)...so it hits the end for the dad, auto rewinds, then ejects (just like most VCR's do if you let them play to the end)....ENTER RACHEL...ok maybe farfetched, but the first explination for the tape thus far ...AND the only other refrence to a VHS TAPE!!! in the movie :) so i'll consider myself a trailblazer for this topic of discussion