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A young woman named Julia (Matilda Lutz) becomes worried about her boyfriend Holt (Alex Roe) when he explores a subculture surrounding a mysterious videotape that is said to kill the watcher 7 days after he/she has seen it. She sacrifices herself in order to save him, and in doing so she makes a horrifying discovery: there is a "movie within the movie" that no one has ever seen before…

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A young woman named Julia (Matilda Lutz) (Creator/MatildaLutz) becomes worried about her boyfriend Holt (Alex Roe) when he explores a subculture surrounding a mysterious videotape that is said to kill the watcher 7 days after he/she has seen it. She sacrifices herself in order to save him, and in doing so she makes a horrifying discovery: there is a "movie within the movie" that no one has ever seen before…
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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:Gabriel]] is taken out by a car accident and a falling telephone pole completely unrelated to Samara.

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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:Gabriel]] is taken out by a car accident and a falling telephone pole completely unrelated to Samara. Maybe.
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* {{Retcon}}: In the second movie, it was established that Samara's "father" was an [[EldritchAbomination otherworldly oceanic entity]] that was the source of her powers. ''Rings'' retcons this so that she's [[spoiler:the ChildByRape of a pedophilic priest, and her mother was so traumatized she made up the story of the entity to cope]].
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Professor Gabriel, first by finding the videotape and then involving several of his students in a project based on the material on the tape.
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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:Gabriel]] is taken out by a car accident and a falling telephone pole completely unrelated to Samara.
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* AdvertisedExtra: Trailers make a big deal of Vincent D'Onofrio, but he shows up in only two scenes. [[spoiler:Granted, the second one is the climax and he is essentially the film's main villain, but it's still very little compared to what his omnipresence in the trailers implied.]]

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* AdvertisedExtra: Trailers make a big deal of Vincent D'Onofrio, Creator/VincentDOnofrio, but he shows up in only two scenes. [[spoiler:Granted, the second one is the climax and he is essentially the film's main villain, but it's still very little compared to what his omnipresence in the trailers implied.]]

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