Whats this about a scene involving a child killer being cut from the film?
Actor Chris Cooper was brought in for a deleted subplot in which he played a convicted child killer. If you look carefully, his character appears in the newspaper that Noah is reading just before Samara pays him a visit. The headline itself would appear to be an in joke: It reads Parole Pending After Hea– followed by the ring of the coffee cup. For more, see this article at sci-fi.com. The child killer subplot, by the way, differs yet again from the ending as it appeared in the original script (and as a deleted scene on the DVD). In that version, Rachel makes a copy of the tape and places it on a video-store shelf for unsuspecting customers to watch.
