Unless you say WATER is a twist...in which case I fear for the sake of the words "twist ending"

Aliens who have the technology to travel millions of light years, etc. can't open doors, their only apparent "weapon" is "wrist gas", they come to a planet that is 3/4 covered in water and often rains, yet they cannot come into contact with water. And people across the world are running in terror and all the militaries are apparently unable to do anything, when all anybody needed to do was turn on their garden hose. Another thing that pissed me off, M. Night's "cameo" saying "I hear their afraid of water", how the hell do you know?! If this is common knowledge for Joe Schmoe from Iowa (or Indiana, or wherever it was set, I don't remember), then what was the problem in the first place? And do you know how much moisture condensation gets on corn stalks at night? As a native Nebraskan, I can tell you quite a bit. And yet the Aliens run around in the cornfields at night playing tag without being "injured".

Why did the girl in the beginning turn all gross like if just her heart stopped? How did she get in the closet? Why were horses going crazy? Why did copying the tape do anything? How does a tape kill you? Who was on the phone? Some people said the video was really scary. Just watch a 9 inch nails music video, turn down the color and mute the tv and there you have the ring video.

If you found your daughter like that, would you really tell people that's how she looked like when she died or just tell them that her heart stopped? Anyway, my theory is she looked like what one would look like if they drowned in a deep well and didn't get found for seven days.

Wouldn't you run for your life and try to hide if Samarra stepped out of the TV and was going after you the way they showed her going after Noah?

Horses? Cuz they felt her evil presence? Hasn't it always been the case in movies that animals are more intune to evil than humans? Take "Wolf" with Jack and Michelle for example.

I thought this was explained in the film. If you copy the tape, there's a better chance that someone else would see it, thereby spreading the body count more. And by spreading it around, you're "helping" Samarra with her work so she doesn't kill you.

The tape doesn't kill you. Watching it does. or rather, Samarra does. after 7 days which is how long she survived in the well I think.

I assume it was Samarra on the fone. She's good like that.

The video was...disturbing to say the least.

The girl got all gross from decay, she was in the closet because she tryed to run from Samara. They say she was literally scared to death. Second this isn't something new to horror movies. They all try to make a simple death look much grosser then it really is.

The horses go crazy because they were owned by that one lady who killed Samara. My memory of the film is kinda off, but this was definatly explained in the movie.

The copying of the tape helped because what Samaras "goal" was to spread her word. So if someone saw the video, they had 7 days to copy the tape and show it to someone else to save themselves. And again this isn't a theory, it was stated in the movie.

I don't know who was on the phone, but don't think its really a plot hole either.

If the video was just shown on TV I wouldn't have thought much of it but since it was IN the movie it seemed a whole lot freakier.