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Date: 2003-01-08 23:59:29

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She was evil in the first place. That is why her ?mother? tried to kill her. Her body might have died, but her evil lived on. The origin of the tape came from the attempt to record the football game during the 4 kids stay at ?Cabin 12? (built right above her resting place). Her ability to make images on video are exactly like her ability to make them on x-rays (at her stay in the mental institution, where she was probably dismissed because the doctors decided nothing was going to cure her).  She probably made the images of horses because they kept her up all the time when she was put in the barn-hidden by her ?family?. So the tape started out with the four kids at Cabin 12 and spread itself from there- through reports made by investigations of the horses or the deaths of the 4 kids from Cabin 12. What?s more unstoppable than modern media?
Her origin however, is a different story. There might be some correlation between horse fertility pills and the mother not being able to have children- the mother took the horse fertility pills, knew something was different during her pregnancy and left town until after winter, when the movie said the parents returned with her. I think that the movie leaves it up to you to decide where she came from (probably to be released in a prequel). The movie implied that she wasn?t an infant upon the family?s return after the winter. So her origin is up to you. The mother couldn?t bear children and the father seems to be unable to stand the implications of her having one (and probably recognized the evil in the child as did the mother). Satan, fertility drugs, insert your own idea-
The father checked out the tape (and kept it) under his own curiosity after his wife killed herself (remember her jumping off the cliff in the tape?) because she killed her evil ?daughter.? He realized the same thing that the mother did and killed himself, most likely realizing the fate of all those reporters that came to his house or maybe he knew that the mother checked it out in the past- there were 3 or 4 names before his on the checkout list- would be his own. That?s why when Noah went to check it out under the father?s alias, the guy working said that ?he? was the last one to see it.
As far as Aidan calling his mother Rachel- it follows protocol of all weird movies like this- one word, Poltergiest. It?s just another thing for the audience to dwell upon  (again, probably to be released in the pre/sequel) in order to distract you from what?s at hand.
Bottom line- the girl is just like the Freddy Krugers and the Jasons- pure evil trying to kill whatever she can. Freddy did it through dreams, Jason did it at woodland camps, she does it through the video- supernatural just like the rest of em- evil by creation. Kills what she wants- maybe through the use of water, maybe through the use of pure horror. But just like Kruger's glove of knives and Jason's mask, water is her calling card. She may, more or less, be defeated by the end of the flick, but defeat doesn?t mean the end of supernatural spirits by any means. Expect prequels and/or sequels? the movie was really good. Makes the imagination wonder and scares you at the same time. I?ll have to see it again to confirm or reject my hypothesies.