20 Things You Didn't Know About The Ring

Don't panic, The Ring doesn't actually melt your brain, just those unfortunate enough to watch the cursed video and not pass it on. Victims appear to suffer some form of heart attack but how does that account for the twisted face and exposed veins?

One Wiki Fan user thinks they have the answer:

Another theory about how Samara kills her victims is that she mentally projects all of the images from the cursed videotape into the victim's mind all at once, causing an intense mental overload which literally causes them to internally explode, leaving their external body seemingly rotten and "dried" out as a result of the overload. This is why the victims receive a heart attack before dying, their mouths are horribly disfigured despite no sign of physical attack and a series of screenshots from the cursed videotape briefly flash moments before he/she dies.

This would certainly explain the raw sausage complexion but perhaps some things are best left to the imagination...