Got a call. Luckily, it was just my wife telling me she wants a divorce. Really dodged a bullet!

She's gonna have a hard time crawling outta my phone lol

This tape is psychological horror at its absolute finest. No extremely loud, sudden noise. No jumpscares. Just complete mental unease at the oddity of the images and the sounds that go with them. Really wish there was more horror like this.

When I was younger (in the 2000s), my father and I watched this movie late at night in the living room, the house as quiet as can be. This film made me feel a dread and unease I've never felt again from a horror film. What my dad was hiding from me, was his phone in his hand, hanging over the arm of the coach he was laying on. At the end of the film, the tape is shown in its entirety to close out the film, portraying you viewing the entire tape and consequently becoming cursed. Right as the screen cut to black, my father called the house phone, and gave me a very convincing stare. Scared the ever living shit out of me. I chased him into our garage and that's that. Still haven't forgotten that to this day. He hid his damn phone dialed to the home phone the ENTIRE movie to pull it off. Fucking classic.

As long as I’m not in fullscreen, nothing can hurt me

ITS BEEN 3 YEARS SAMARA IM WAITING

Let's all stop and appreciate the fact that, by the law of probability, at least one person has watched this and immediately gotten a phone call afterwards

The nail through the finger gets me everytime

Samara : you'll die in seven days Me : hi 👋 Samara : "I have a boyfriend"

Watched this tape 10 years ago and still waiting for Samara to come for me...

I absolutely love how the director mixed all kinds of horror in this. This was so so disturbing .

This tape REALLY looks like somebody's nightmare. No matter how many times i watch it, it won't be "less scary", it makes me feel inside the movie, or inside of a mental colapso. All the sounds, the cuts and the pictures... it's just... creepy. I don't know who made the american version of the tape but i'm grateful to him/her, giving me nightmares since 2015 (first time i've watched "The Ring", i was really young). This version is way better, it should be in the movie!

In the original Japanese novel the cursed tape visualised the last thoughts and emotions in Sadako's dying brain. So I guess it works the same way in here, though the tape looks somewhat random, in fact every single frame has some meaning: - All the images of water show that Samara was feeling cold and wet at the bottom of the well. - Before death she was obviously thinking about her mother and why she did that to her. - The nail piercing the finger and breaking the fingernail (and the chopped fingers inside a box) shows that Samara was feeling pain in her fingers for a long time because she broke her fingernails desperately trying to climb up. - The centipede symbolises that there were insects at the bottom of the well and Samara felt disgusted because of that. - The falling ladder symbolises her memories of falling down the well and the mere feeling of falling. - The burning tree possibly symbolises her anger and desire to burn everything after they did this to her. - The cadaveric worms symbolise her understanding that she's going to die soon. So yeah, everything makes sence if you give it a little thought.

Remember when horror movies used to be scary?

The gargling sound w/ the shot of the mouth frightens me the most. Truly an example that they don’t make horror like this anymore. Golden era for me!🌟

The ghost, entity, or Yūrei who edited this cursed tape has a good sense of editing the montage. Well done, Sadako! There is a lot of 'Uncanny Valley' feelings in this video.

The original “deep web edgy art project.”

Me: open this video Samara: ah shit here we go again...

To this day, I still can't watch this fully. The Ring truly terrified me.

Seeing Samara in the mirror at 0:39 and then seeing her fade away, always gave me chills as a kid

Me: broke af and can’t afford a sim card Samara: how do I warn this guy?

I remember being about 12 years old, watching MTV super late at night, shortly before this movie was released. During random commercial breaks, they would play bits of this video as an “ad” for the movie, except it would never say the name of the movie. It was just clips from this effed up video.

It’s that pulsating sound of the ring itself that scares me the most. Just something about it give me chills after all this time.

I had dismissed this movie as generic horror garbage for years but finally watched it a few months ago. The premise is silly, but the film itself is really quite good. I guess it also helped watching it on a dark and rainy afternoon, but it really is a solid movie. Plus the fact that it stars Naomi Watts instantly catapults it to the top tier, she is always great.

*ring* Samara: Seven days Millennials: Damn can't you be here sooner

all else aside, this video is hauntingly beautiful in a way. it's a work of art.

i watched this seven days before my birthday once. goddamn samara didn't ever climb out of my tv with a present. how rude smh

Rest in peace to everyone who died of a heart attack and just so happens to get a call.

The second I finished watching it I got a thing saying chrome quit unexpectedly. I'm gonna die lit

danm i got a phone call but it was for a job interview. dang my dreams.

This perfectly captures what a nightmare can feel and sound like

I remember renting the DVD of this and one of the special features was the tape...you could not pause it, stop it, or anything. Not even the power button would work when it was playing. That was a really cool feature!

This has got to be one of my favorite horror movies from the 00's. It had me on the edge of my seat the first time I watched it. It was really tense and atmospheric. Another thing I appreciate about the movie is when you watch it again (since they only show the full tape once) you see things that come later in the movie that you didn't really pay attention to the first time you watch it. The whole story that Rachel was trying to figure out was in the tape.

I watched this hoping for someone to call me, since I don't have any friends. Very disappointed, thumbs down.

🌌i tried to scream, but my head was underwater🌌

This is exactly how to make horror. No loud jumpscares, just extremely unsettling images that just make you wanna look away from the grotesque content. In a way like the Human Centipede, disgusting. Nowadays, movies rely to heavily on jumpscares.

Played this on my high school morning broadcast. Now I'm a sole survivor.

One time I was watching the Ring and the phone just happens to ring immediately after this scene ended. Scared the shit out of me. Perfect bad timing. It was actually my mom calling.

one of the best horror movies of all time, idc how old it is it will always go HARD

People talk about the horror of this movie. But for me, this is movie is absolute masterpiece in detailing of the premise. Every frame has an hidden meaning.

1:05 *holds finger for hours*

Watched this 3 years ago and now today. Still waiting to die. Update: 2020. Still alive. Perfectly well :)

The man looking out the window at 0:44 always creeped me out more than any other part of the tape. There’s something very unsettling about it; like you’re looking back at your house’s windows before leaving for work/school and you see someone who’s not supposed to be there ominously staring down at you.

The end... got a lot less scary once KZfaq started playing ads after the video. I mean, two minutes of simply terrifying stuff, and then to end it off: _ring_ _ring_ “Arby’s! We have the meats!”

Girl: "Seven days" Guy: "This is Dean Winchester" Girl: *hang up*

I casted this to my little brothers Xbox at 2:30 AM lmao

Does it make me a sociopath to have a full list of people I'm prepared to share this with just in the slight chance that this is actually cursed?

Thank God this movie was made before social media. You couldn’t make a movie like this today! Movies were more authentic back then.

Is anyone else not scared just kind of grossed out and thinking, "Ouch! How did they film this?"

Samara: "You'll die in seven days" me: cool Samara: "make it one"

One of the best examples of analog horror.

Unpopular opinion: Samara was just trying to make some ASMR content here?

i've been waiting for 7 years like Lukas Graham. but still not die😂

Woman combing her hair, nails and fingers, a ladder, cows doing impressions of jellyfish, musical chairs in zero gravity, Scottish countryside, you get a C.

Am I the only here just to watch it because you saw the movie and was wondering what was the full cursed video like?

Watch this at 2AM on your TV fullscreen with the lights off and without blinking. I dare you.

Girl: Seven days! Me: Can we make it seven hours? I really don't want to take the math test.

* phone rings * "Hello?" "7 days... *cough* *cough* Excuse me. You have 7 days until you take down this video. This is Ben Shefner from Motion Pictures Association and you have viola--" "NOOOOO!!!!"

Poor Sadako(cannon Japanese name)/samara 😔 she didn’t deserve that.

guys its the VCR TAPE that supposedly "would work". So your free to watch it on here cuz its youtube and not the real vcr tape

Back when horror films were genuinely frightening

me: "hello?" girl: "seven days" me: "i m your mother" girl: "...................bye"

Me: When was the last time you took a shower? Scary girl: 7 days...

I remember watching this film with my elder brother and a family friend back in the day. (2002)And during this scene, one of our neighbour's telephone started ringing very loudly in the middle of the day. Our faces went white with fear. And we decided that it would be a good idea if we just paused the movie for a little while and talked about school assignments and other mundane activities.

I watched this two years ago and I'm still alive

Honestly this is art👨🏻‍🎨 All those eerie scenes were put together really good. 👍🏼 Good movie too

The VHS release of The Ring played this at the very beginning before the trailers. I knew nothing about the movie so I remember being very confused. It wasn’t until the movie started that I realized how clever they had been with that.

871 thousand people: “guess I’ll die”

How to survive this: Remove this from your watch history And you're safe!

I'm really glad the filmmakers decided to edit quite a lot of the images out of the final film, most of which look far too clean and polished to suit the tone the film was trying to set. The sound mix is also a lot better in the final film. It ended up being much more organic and unsettling than this full version.

when you've watched the movie and know all of the plot this is really cool to watch

I absolutely love the sounddesign

Me: gets a call Girl: hi this is.. Me: hangs up Me: realizing that was Pizza Hut ;-;

I was 12 when I first saw this movie and as soon as the movie ended my phone rang immediately. I almost shit myself and kept telling my brother not to answer. He did anyways and it was my grandmother.

I love this i play this at weddings and funerals. Lift's the spirit.

Why is it that out of all the grotesque and creepy imagery in this clip, the maggots, the box of twitching severed fingers, the finger going through the nail, the woman in the mirror, none of that frightens me, but the image of the empty chair and the ladder leaning against the wall are absolutely horrifying?

I like how when we were kids we'd be like "oh shit we gonna die in seven days!" But now legit we're like "please fucking kill me now"

Some people have milk and cookies before bed, I watch this.

I immediately started laughing picturing the scary movie version when the guy was spinning in the chair upside down lmaoooo

0:13 That sound effect is so iconic though

0:46 Me: Tries to pinch the fly out of the screen Edit: I’m just going to say, you won’t get this joke if you didn’t see the actual movie

This American version is a lot longer than the Japanese.

Comparing both Sadako's Cursed Tape and Samara's cursed tape is quite... distinctly open to interpretation. Sadako's tape is much more abstract, and a little more direct on what Sadako's trying to convey. 1. The man looking down the well, the culprit who sealed Sadako in the well, her father Ikuma. 2. Sadako's mother combing her hair, her mother slowly going insane and in a childish prank; moved the mirror. 3. The jumbled Kanji all topics of Sadako's predictions, eventually the prediction of the mountain eruption. 4. The crawling people, the victims of the eruption. 5. The Towel Man, Sadako's confusion on who her father truly is. And the guised image of a protector. 6. The Kanji Eye, with the first bits of Sadako's name "Sada". Likely implying that she's watching the viewer as they are watching her. 7. The Well. The last thing all victims see till Sadako rises from the well to unleash her rage. Samara's Tape is more graphic, And is more imagery of what Samara is trying to tell the viewer. 1. The Ring. The stone seal that blocks off Samara's exit with the ring of light breaking through, she is trapped and can see her exit. 2. Flowing bloody water, Samara is wet and hurt. Feeling the flow of water. 3. The nail, likely telling us about her nails... 4. The embryo, she's a child. 5. The chair, describing her interviews and history with doctors. 6. Samara's mother, her thoughts turning to her mother and why she'd betray her like so. 7. The man in the window, Samara's father but an unknown man.. 8. The Cliff, of which Samara's mother would throw herself down. Knowing she predicted her mother's death. 9. The intestine, Samara is hungry, having nothing to eat being trapped below. 10. The Burning three, her rage and desire to destroy. 11. The fingertips & the pricked finger on the nail. Her fingernails have fallen off and she's in pain. 12. The maggots & centipede, she's not only dying but maggots are now forming on her rotting flesh. Bugs are infesting the well. 13. The dead animals and eye. Samara's glare will only bring pain and misery to all. 14. The ladder, she is pleading for an escape out of the well. But also how she fell into the well and has no way out. 15. The sealed well, Samara watching as her only way out is closed before her very eyes. 16. The Well, the last thing all victims see till Samara rises from the well to unleash her rage.

I love this kind of abstract creepy videos. Reminds me of the Creatures music vid by Motionless In White. I need more of these

Me: *watches this* Also me: *anxiously waiting for a call because I wanna die anyway*

Girl: 7 days Me: sorry I have a zumba class that day can we reschedule my death? Girl: 7 days Me: where's your manager-

Imagine you need someone else to watch this in order to save your life but the 30 second unskippable ad kills you first.

I got a phone call during this from an unknown number and they said something scarier, "we've been trying to contact you regarding your cars extended warranty!'

*phone rings me: hello? Samara: you’ll die in seven days. Me: your voice is cute. Samara: I have a boyfriend. *hangs up

Why do I found this satisfying and relaxing?

I was kinda hoping my phone would actually start RING-ing... What can I say, I absolutely love this character!

Me: *watches this video* Samara starts crawling out of the tv Me: *starts sliding hands in my pants* Samara: wtf... *Starts backing up slowly*

GETS A CALL Me: “hello”? Evil girl: “sEvEn DaYs”! Me: “seven days? Oh my god I’m Gonna Die NeXt Monday”?

Gets watched video Herobrine: Ah s**t, here we go again

Cast it to an unsuspecting person's TV in your house

This is the version from the DVD. The version in the film and on the marketing tapes was very slightly different. I found one of those tapes and, wondering what I got myself into, followed the trail of breadcrumbs it began until I ended up at the biggest fansite for Ringu (and eventually the Ring). I posted a transcript of what I saw on the tape and chatted with people. Six days after watching the tape for the first time, the webmaster of the site was at my apartment making me a copy. Turned out he randomly lived a twenty-odd minute drive away, with traffic. Saved from Samara by convenience instead of the fact that curses don't real! What started with grabbing a random tape out of a box labeled "free tapes" with a flyer warning me not to watch it, ended with me and several friends being invited to this guy's private showing of the movie a week before it came out. I would be more snooty about the fact our cut of the film was different, but it was a change of literally a single plot-irrelevant word - presumably changed to avoid rating issues. The time around the release of the Ring was a lot of fun for me. Gore Verbinski and Tom Savini (and the rest of the cast and crew) made a singularly impressive horror flick. The early 2000's were also a golden era for marketing. Alternate Reality Games had only _just_ been invented, and viral marketing that blended the real and unreal while encouraging participation were growing and developing. I kinda miss weird shit being part of movie and game marketing.

Once I get my phone I’m gonna send my friend this video then call her right after and say “7 days...” when she picks up! I can’t wait to see her reaction!

the chair spinning in the middle of the video like...

I do really like the imagery. Gives you a weird gross feeling Like the shot of the person puking up what looks like their large intestine

This is so calming☺️