Journalist Rachel Keller investigates the death of her niece and three other teenagers, all of whom died exactly one week after watching a mysterious videotape together. Skeptical at first, she tracks down the recording, a succession of disturbing images, and makes the mistake of playing it. From that moment the clock runs against her: she has seven days to unravel the origin of the curse before it claims her and her young son. Atmospheric horror of an icy tone, an American remake that popularized contemporary Japanese horror in the West.