What horror film featured the character Samara Morgan?

The horror film The Ring featured Samara Morgan, the vengeful ghost connected to a cursed videotape.

Samara is the central supernatural antagonist of Gore Verbinski’s 2002 film The Ring, the English-language remake of the Japanese film Ringu. In the story, journalist Rachel Keller investigates a videotape that supposedly kills anyone who watches it seven days later. Samara’s disturbing image and emergence from a television became defining scenes of modern horror cinema.

The character was renamed Samara Morgan for the American adaptation. In Ringu, the corresponding character is Sadako Yamamura, so the two names should not be treated as interchangeable when identifying the films. The American movie stars Naomi Watts as Rachel Keller and presents Samara’s backstory through videotapes, photographs, and accounts of her adoptive family.

Samara also appears in later films in the English-language franchise, including The Ring Two and Rings. However, The Ring is the original film that introduced the Samara Morgan version of the character and is the canonical answer to this trivia question.