First of all, the kid somehow gets possessed because she burns the tape? All the other women burned/destroyed tapes to get their kids possessed? I don't think so. The scenes with Samara's mother indicated Samara or the demon that possessed her tries to get a new life every once in a while. That doesn't jive in the slightest with "tape burns, Samara gets pissed and takes revenge by possessing the kid."

Ignoring the slow spots in the first half and the acting, then come the animals. What the hell? I hope there is one awesome cut scene somewhere on the DVD. Someone explain to me what on earth the significance of all those antlers in the basement was? There has to be some symbolism I missed, because clearly the attack earlier in the flick and the basement scene were supposed to mean something at one point during the films development.

Was Samara a hunter that killed a lot of moose? I can't quite picture Samara in camouflage with a rifle, but that's about the only reason all the moose would have a grudge against her.

The ending was rather bizarre. When she took the kid upstairs to the bathroom, I was praying it would at least end on a negative note. I didn't want to see the movie end happily ever after. I was worried things would turn out well, but at least on that end the film didn't disappoint. That said, it didn't make much sense.

Before Rachel is pulled in the TV, the "she wants a mother" made sense with the last scene. But the stuff with the well... Wtf? Rachel kicks Samara and traps her, only to escape, yell "I'm not your fucking mommy" (Awesome line, as mentioned above) and end Samara's reign of terror. How in the fuck does that translate to the last scene?

Rachel clearly knew the second Samara called her "mommy" that it wasn't her kid. The last couple seconds indicate she's still in the television, but she doesn't have any reason to know that. As far as she knows she made it out and Samara is still in her kid as far as I can tell. She goes from "I'm not your fucking mommy" to asking Samara to call her Rachel? Huh?

And aside from that, the fact she never made it back to reality brings for some strangeness. Do we assume she lives out her life in an alternate universe, never aging? Bizarre.

OMG ATTACK OF THE KILLER REINDEER~!!!!!!!!

Tommy Boy!

I'm confused by your interpretation of the end -- I didn't think she didn't make it back to reality; what did I miss? If you mean the almost last shot where the sky flips like it's a TV, I think it was just the last "effect" of the movie to leave at least SOMETHING there for a possible sequel.

I'm pretty sure that in the last scene Rachel though they she had defeated Samara and that she was back in the real world with her son (although as you said, the flickering picture leads us to think possibly not). The kid did call her "mommy", but I think she assumed that it was because they had just been through a tramatic experience and not because he was still possessed by Samara. When she said "Don't call me mommy...at least not yet", I took that to mean she didn't want him to call her that because that's what Samara called her. If you remember, at the first of the movie she was trying to get him to call her "mommy" or "mom" or something besides "Rachel".

This is just my take on it, but the ending seems to make more sense that way.

Hmm... Maybe I misinterpreted the ending then. I thought she was probably back in the real world as well, until the flickering and various effects of the last couple seconds. Also, although I wasn't paying attention to memorize it, I thought whoever the kid was at that point called her mommy, she said something along the lines of "Call me Rachel, for a little while/longer at least." That made me think she knew she was talking to Samara, especially if it was "for a little while at least."

The ending would make a bit more sense if she was back in the real world, but the effects in the last second just strongly indicated she was still in the TV. Since the entire audience in my theatre groaned the second the effects occured, it seemed like most of the people in my theatre agreed. On the way out I heard a couple people talking about the fact she was still with Samara as well.

So maybe the audience swayed my judgement, but I just can't buy that she made it back since the effects were what we'd see if she was still in the television. Seems like not many people think she didn't end up in the real world, so I might have to wait until the DVD commentary to be totally sure of what happened.

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I think that she was back in the real world cuz Samara's mom kept telling Rachel to listen to her child. She listened to her son's voice even though it was over the cliff and she jumped off of it trusting the voice. That's when she ended back in the real world. I could be wrong though.