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| I wasn't clear on whether the horses were dying before or after Samara was dead. or both. |
I thought the horses died before she did, and that they were at another place that just happened to have horses, but my memory is a sieve. I do remember talking about that scene where they are at this place with a deep well where there just happen to be horses--my husband thought that they were the family's horses, but I just thought they were there because it was out in a field.
The nail thing bothered me because it showed how she tried to climb out of the well and it was when I first realized she was actually alive.
I didn't even notice that the friend resembled Samara.
I don't think it was specified as to whether she was adopted or conceived. I do remember that the father said that his wife was never supposed to have children, and there was something in the medical records about her having a lot of miscarriages. At the Internet Movie Database message boards, some viewers were suggesting that they made some sort of pact with the devil in order to have a child. I thought perhaps they stole a child from someone else.
What I didn't get was how when Rachel went into the Morgan's house, and Richard started acting like he was actually going to kill her or something. He asked her something about the tape and she said that she had made a copy. He seemed to relax at that point, which I didn't quite get. Perhaps he was knew that to make a copy was the key, and he was afraid of what would happen if Samara came after Rachel.
I didn't realize the tape was made in 1978, but now I don't remember the dates. There was stuff in the newspapers from around that time about the horses dying, and an earlier story about the rider being injured when the horse balked and threw him, but Samara was only an infant at the time of the accident. So I was thinking that the tape was made either when she was older, or actually when she was already dead, since her spirit was still there and could burn the images. But the footage of her in the asylum, when would that have been taken? I don't know. Was it video or film? I don't remember now.
A review at the IMDb site had someone postulating that Aiden was a reincarnation of Samara, so the "copy" that Rachel made was Aiden, not the tape. I don't know about that.
