The original cut of the film was over 130 minutes, with an estimated 20 minutes of footage excised from the final cut. Numerous scenes were cut down or entirely cut from the film before release. Some scenes were present only at test screenings. Others showed up in previews or the "Don't Watch This" short film on the DVD and Blu-ray (which compiled some of the deleted scenes together). These scenes include: Samara's line "Everyone will suffer" that was cut out of the film but can be heard in the previews. Richard's bathtub suicide was much more graphic. Samara's murder lasted longer in the original cut of the film and was much more brutal than what audiences saw in theaters. Her death had to be edited to obtain a PG-13 rating. Originally, the plastic bag over Samara's head failed to subdue her, leading Anna to repeatedly strike her in the head with a large rock (which can be seen lying on the ground in some shots of the well). The rock only weakened Samara, and finally, Anna resorted to slamming her head against the side of the well before dumping her in. Some test screenings contained scenes at the beginning and end of the film involving a murderer played by Chris Cooper. The first scene involved the murderer approaching Rachel, asking her to help clear his name, claiming he is rehabilitated and no longer a threat to society. She knows he's lying and refuses. Then at the end of the movie, she pays him a visit and drops off a copy of the video. His scenes were supposed to be a bookend, and were cut because test audiences were confused as to why he didn't show up again throughout the rest of the film. Noah goes over to Rachel's apartment and tries to find the tape. When the babysitter hears him say it's a homemade video and it might be in the bedroom, she starts laughing. He finds the distorted pictures of the kids from the beginning in Rachel's room. One of the pictures shows the sign for the Inn. This leads into another scene where Noah goes to the rental cabins and finds the dead body of the cabin manager in a canoe on the lake. There was a scene where Rachel asks crab fishers on the island about the Morgans. They say that no one could get a good haul when Samara was around. There's additional material with Rachel in Cabin 12 where she tries to watch TV, but the reception is terrible, and she finds a journal left by the previous guests (similar to the Japanese film The Ring (1998) and the original Japanese novel Ring by Kôji Suzuki). Visual effects supervisor Charles Gibson said in an interview that another sequence was "previsualized", but cut from the film. "It was an all-CG montage of the 'Ring' tape being created from a point of view inside the VCR. There is an alternate scene of Rachel and Ruth's discussion at the funeral where Rachel searches Katie's room and finds the ticket for photos. Ruth comes in and they discuss information Rachel found out from some of Katie's friends. Ruth becomes frustrated and angry about not knowing why Katie died, and charges towards the closet and explains to Rachel that she found Katie there. There is a flashback with Ruth finding Katie's corpse in the closet (same flashback used in the funeral scene). Midway through the movie, Rachel rents some movies and gets laughs from one of the employees over her picks. This led to an alternate ending, in which Rachel put the cursed tape in the sleeve for one of her rented movies and returned it to the store, where it ended up under "employee picks."

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