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See production notesHigh schoolers Becca Kotler and Katie Embry discuss a cursed videotape that allegedly causes the death of anyone who watches it within seven days. After they both watch the tape, an unseen entity kills them. On a farm outside Washington, D.C., widowed pastor Tom Logan and his brother George discover crop circles in their cornfield, with Tom's daughter Sue screaming in the center. Local reporter Cindy Campbell works for 8 News, covering the crop circle phenomenon but receives little attention. She cares for her young nephew Cody, who displays precognitive abilities. While picking him up from school, Cindy meets George, who invites her and her friend Brenda Meeks to a rap battle. At the event, George impresses the crowd by defeating Fat Joe but is expelled after mistakenly wearing a white hoodie which looks like a Ku Klux Klan hood while greeting the audience. Brenda later informs Cindy that she has watched the cursed videotape, so asks her to stay with her. After a series of pranks, Brenda is killed by the tape's entity named Tabitha. George, Mahalik, and CJ learn of Brenda's death. Meanwhile, Tom meets Sayaman, who accidentally caused his wife Annie's death in a car accident. George and Mahalik disrupt Brenda's wake, attempting to revive her. Cindy discovers the cursed tape among Brenda's belongings, watches it, and receives a call warning her of her death. Seeking help, she contacts George, Mahalik, and CJ. CJ refers her to his aunt Shaneequa, who identifies a hidden image of a lighthouse within the tape, suggesting it holds the key to breaking the curse. While Cindy is away, Cody watches the tape, putting himself at risk. In a further attempt to warn the public, Cindy broadcasts a warning through her news station, but her boss distorts the message. Concurrently, Tom and his family encounter an alien disguised as Michael Jackson, while U.S. president Baxter Harris arrives to investigate the crop circles. Cindy visits the lighthouse and meets the Architect, who explains that Tabitha was his adopted daughter, a malevolent spirit who his wife drowned in a nearby well. Before her death, Tabitha transferred her evil essence into a VHS tape, which he accidentally returned to Blockbuster, releasing the curse. Returning home, Cindy finds Cody missing and learns that the tape has been aired on live television, exposing a wide audience. She traces Cody to the Logan farm, where he has taken shelter. As chaos unfolds with global extraterrestrial sightings, Tom instructs Cindy, Sue, and Cody to hide in the basement while he, George, Mahalik, Harris and the Secret Service confront the extraterrestrials. They reveal they are peaceful and intercepted the cursed tape, mistakenly believing it to be the film Pootie Tang, and have come to Earth to stop Tabitha. In the basement, Cindy identifies the well from the tape. Tabitha emerges and captures Cody. Cindy and George attempt to reason with her, offering her a place in their family. However, though Tabitha initially appears to accept, she attempts to attack them, only for Harris to inadvertently open the basement door and knock her back down into the well. Following the incident, Cindy and George get married. As they depart for their honeymoon, they realize they have left Cody behind. Cindy narrowly avoids hitting him at an intersection, only for another vehicle to strike him.
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See all quotesBecca: You know what else I heard? Magnetic waves shrink silicone molecules. (looks down at breasts) Aah! Oh, my God, turn it off! Kate: It's not working! Becca: It's backwards! Kate: What do we do? Becca: I don't know! Aaahhhh! Kate: That was kind of scary. Becca: I know something even scarier. Kate: Ooh, what? Becca: Have you heard about this videotape? Kate: The one where they do it on the boat and then in the car and then in the bathtub? And he's like, "Hey, baby, I love you" and she's like, "Where are we?" And did you see the size- Becca: No. Not that tape. The one with all the scary images, and after you watch the tape, the phone rings and this really scary voice comes on and says you're gonna die in like- Kate: Six Seven days! Yeah, I saw that one with Josh last weekend! Becca: You were with Josh last weekend? Oh, my God! (hits Kate with pillow) Kate: Oh, yes I was! (hits Becca with chair) Becca: You ho! (smashes glass vase on Kate's head) Kate: You know it! (whacks Becca with c
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Mahalik: But what if we stopped living over here, and started living over there? CJ: Shit, my Aunt Shaneequa used to live over there! But that bitch got evicted though. Mahalik: For what? CJ: Mice. Mahalik: I thought she had rats? CJ: No, rats are outside, mice are inside. Mahalik: But what if a mouse goes outside does it become a rat, and if a rat is in the house, is it a mouse? CJ: I ain't seen no mouse outside. That's what I'm sayin'. Mahalik: That's because it's a rat, fool! CJ: Damn! You mighta just made fact. That's some real shit right there!
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Cindy: Hello? Tabitha's Voice: (indistinct) Seven days. Cindy: What? Willie Mays? Tabitha's Voice: (indistinct) Seven days. Cindy: Who's gay? Hello? Tabitha's Voice: (indistinct) Seven days. Cindy: What? Tabitha's Voice: (slightly more clear) Can you hear me now? Cindy: Kind of. Tabitha's Voice: (perfectly audible) Can you hear me now? Cindy: Yes. Perfect. Tabitha's Voice: Seven days. Cindy: Seven days. Oh my God. I'm gonna die next Monday? Tabitha's Voice: Yes. No. Wait. Monday. That would be seven business days. This is seven days starting now. Cindy: So seven days to this very hour? My watch broke. How am I gonna know the exact hour? Tabitha's Voice: Forget hours. This day seven days from now. Cindy: But there's a holiday coming up. Do you count the holiday? Tabitha's Voice: Well, that depends. What holiday? Cindy: Martin Luther King Day. Tabitha's Voice: Then no. Cindy: Why not? Everybody at work is taking it off. Tabitha's Voice: Jesus Christ, lady. I'm giving you seven friggin' d
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Cindy: Hello? ShaNeequa: I know. You're Cindy. Be right with you. Cindy: Aunt ShaNeequa? ShaNeequa: Bingo. But you can call me the Oracle. And don't worry about that vase. Cindy: What vase? [Bumps into a vase but it doesn't fall off] Oh! Sorry. I didn't know. [Walks into a doric column with a vase braining her] Oh! Aah! ShaNeequa: That vase. Please, sit. [Cindy sits and farts] Cindy: It was the chair. ShaNeequa: Mmm. [Farting loudly] Yes, the chair. I know why you've come. A great mystery lies ahead of you, but you must not shy away from the challenge. Only you can be the one... [Orpheus enters and turns on TV] Orpheus? Orpheus: What, baby? ShaNeequa: Sweetie? Orpheus: I'm watching the game. ShaNeequa: Do you mind? The Lakers will win by 12. [Orpheus raises both hands and drops TV remote on ground in expressed displeasure] Cindy: So can you tell me about- ShaNeequa: The tape? Cindy: Yes. I watched it and- ShaNeequa: The phone rang. Cindy: Right. Then this voice said- ShaNeequa: That yo
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George: [At Brenda's funeral] Sue wanted to pay respects to her teacher. You? Cindy: Brenda was my bitch.
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Cindy: Hello? Tabitha's Voice: It's me. How you doing? Cindy: Fine. Tabitha's Voice: Enjoying your last week? I can't wait to see you. Six days now, right? Cindy: Yeah. Tabitha's Voice: It was great catching up. Can I speak to Cody? Cindy: Why? He didn't watch the tape. Tabitha's Voice: Yes, he did. Come on, Cindy, I do this for a living. Cindy: Hello? Tabitha's Voice: Hello, I'm calling from "Reader's Digest" with a fantastic offer for Cody. (snickers) Cindy: (gasps) No, you're not! You're that evil little girl from the tape! Tabitha's Voice: Okay, you got me. How about I just leave a message for him? Cindy: Fine. (writes the message down) Uh-huh. Yeah. Okay, how do you spell that? Right. Okay, got it. Bye. (Cindy holds the paper up, which reads SEVEN DAYS) AAAAHHH!!
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