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* ''Dante the Great'' - In a segment partially framed as an investigative documentary, John [=McMullen=], an amateur magician living in a trailer park, discovers a cloak that was once owned by Harry Houdini. John discovers that the cloak allows him to perform real magic when he wears it, and he goes on to perform in front of huge audiences, becoming the immensely famous "Dante the Great". John soon discovers, however, that the cloak's powers come at a bloody cost... which he'll do anything to pay.
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* ''Dante the Great'' - In a segment partially framed as an investigative documentary, John [=McMullen=], an amateur magician living in a trailer park, discovers a cloak that was once owned by Harry Houdini. John discovers that the cloak allows him to perform real magic when he wears it, and he goes on to perform in front of huge audiences, becoming the immensely famous "Dante the Great".Great" (Creator/JustinWelborn). John soon discovers, however, that the cloak's powers come at a bloody cost... which he'll do anything to pay.
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* TooDumbToLive: One of the kids on the bridge ''climbs over the barrier'' to get a good shot of the van. He ends up slipping and falling.
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* TooDumbToLive: Alphonso is confused and disturbed at seeing unusual things like a bloody sack of organs as the centerpiece of a nascent orgy, which all the locals think is normal, but doesn't even think about fleeing until he sees people put on demonic GameFace (let alone Marta being left alone with one of those monsters).
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* LetsGetDangerous: For the near-entirety of the climactic battle between John, the SWAT team, and Scarlett, the film itself switches from the FoundFootage format to a traditional action scene, possibly as a means of preparing the viewers for just how badass the scene itself is.
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* LetsGetDangerous: For the near-entirety of the climactic battle between John, the SWAT team, and Scarlett, the film itself switches from the FoundFootage format to a traditional traditionally-filmed action scene, possibly as a means of preparing the viewers for just how badass the scene itself is.
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* AffablyEvil: The universe Alfonso visits might be inhabited by HornyDevils [[spoiler: with monstrous genitalia,]] who revel in gruesome rituals and films of human sacrifice, but other than that, they're really nice people who are just doing what's normal for them.
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* AffablyEvil: The universe Alfonso visits might be inhabited by HornyDevils SuccubiAndIncubi [[spoiler: with monstrous genitalia,]] who revel in gruesome rituals and films of human sacrifice, but other than that, they're really nice people who are just doing what's normal for them.
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* HopeSpot [[spoiler: Kevin catches up with the vam holding Iris, but it's a trap, and Iris was DeadAllAlong.]]
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* HopeSpot [[spoiler: Kevin catches up with the vam van holding Iris, but it's a trap, and Iris was DeadAllAlong.]]
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Amateur filmmaker Kevin finds an escape from the problems he has with his abusive grandmother by filming his beautiful girlfriend Iris. When a high-speed police chase enters his neighborhood, he seizes the opportunity to create the ultimate viral video. But his quest quickly becomes a frantic rescue mission when Iris is hypnotized and seemingly abducted by the runaway van.
* ''Vicious Circles'' - The wraparound story. When a runaway ice cream truck speeds into a neighborhood with police in hot pursuit, amateur videographer Kevin sees his shot at fame in the form of a viral video of the chase. Violence, injury, and insanity slowly begin to overcome others filming the the chase and Kevin's girlfriend Iris seemingly disappears into the pursued vehicle, leaving a hapless Kevin to follow her signal on his phone in hopes of finding her before it's too late.
* ''Dante The Great'' - In a segment partially framed as a documentary, John [=McMullen=], an amateur magician living in a trailer park, discovers a cloak that was once owned by Houdini. John discovers that the cloak allows him to perform real magic when he wears it, and he goes on to perform in front of audiences, becoming the immensely famous "Dante the Great". John soon discovers, however, that the cloak's powers come at a bloody cost.
* ''Parallel Monsters'' - In Spain, an inventor named Alfonso puts the finishing touches on a prototype interdimensional portal. Activating the device, he meets a version of himself from a parallel universe. The two versions of Alfonso agree to swap places and briefly explore each other's worlds, but Alfonso slowly discovers that the newly-discovered world has developed along a frighteningly different path than his own.
* ''Bonestorm'' - Jason and Danny are a pair of skateboarding hooligans who are attempting to film the ultimate skate video. They decide to take a break from filming their dangerous stunts and decide to rope in their friend Shaun and their cameraman Taylor for a day trip to Tijuana. The skateboarders eventually find an old flood channel full of strange symbols, and proceed to run afoul of a mysterious cult.
* ''Vicious Circles'' - The wraparound story. When a runaway ice cream truck speeds into a neighborhood with police in hot pursuit, amateur videographer Kevin sees his shot at fame in the form of a viral video of the chase. Violence, injury, and insanity slowly begin to overcome others filming the the chase and Kevin's girlfriend Iris seemingly disappears into the pursued vehicle, leaving a hapless Kevin to follow her signal on his phone in hopes of finding her before it's too late.
* ''Dante The Great'' - In a segment partially framed as a documentary, John [=McMullen=], an amateur magician living in a trailer park, discovers a cloak that was once owned by Houdini. John discovers that the cloak allows him to perform real magic when he wears it, and he goes on to perform in front of audiences, becoming the immensely famous "Dante the Great". John soon discovers, however, that the cloak's powers come at a bloody cost.
* ''Parallel Monsters'' - In Spain, an inventor named Alfonso puts the finishing touches on a prototype interdimensional portal. Activating the device, he meets a version of himself from a parallel universe. The two versions of Alfonso agree to swap places and briefly explore each other's worlds, but Alfonso slowly discovers that the newly-discovered world has developed along a frighteningly different path than his own.
* ''Bonestorm'' - Jason and Danny are a pair of skateboarding hooligans who are attempting to film the ultimate skate video. They decide to take a break from filming their dangerous stunts and decide to rope in their friend Shaun and their cameraman Taylor for a day trip to Tijuana. The skateboarders eventually find an old flood channel full of strange symbols, and proceed to run afoul of a mysterious cult.
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Amateur filmmaker videographer Kevin finds an escape from the problems he has with his abusive grandmother by filming his beautiful girlfriend Iris. When a the high-speed police chase of an ice-cream van enters his neighborhood, he seizes the opportunity to create the ultimate viral video. But his quest for viral fame quickly becomes a frantic rescue mission when Iris is hypnotized and seemingly abducted by the runaway van.
* ''Vicious Circles'' - The wraparound story.When a runaway ice cream truck speeds into a neighborhood with police in hot pursuit, amateur videographer Kevin sees his shot at fame in the form of a viral video of the chase. Violence, injury, and insanity slowly begin to overcome others filming the citizens of Los Angeles as they film the the chase chase, and Kevin's girlfriend Iris seemingly disappears into the pursued vehicle, leaving a hapless Kevin is reduced to follow her following a strange signal on his phone in hopes of finding her to find the van and rescue Iris before it's too late.
* ''DanteThe the Great'' - In a segment partially framed as a an investigative documentary, John [=McMullen=], an amateur magician living in a trailer park, discovers a cloak that was once owned by Harry Houdini. John discovers that the cloak allows him to perform real magic when he wears it, and he goes on to perform in front of huge audiences, becoming the immensely famous "Dante the Great". John soon discovers, however, that the cloak's powers come at a bloody cost.
cost... which he'll do anything to pay.
* ''Parallel Monsters'' - In Spain, an inventor named Alfonsoputs records himself putting the finishing touches on a prototype interdimensional portal. Activating the device, he meets a version of himself from a parallel universe. The two versions of Alfonso agree to swap places and briefly explore document each other's worlds, but Alfonso slowly discovers that the newly-discovered world has developed along a frighteningly different path than his own.
* ''Bonestorm'' - Jason and Danny are a pair ofskateboarding hooligans LA skateboarders who are attempting to film the ultimate skate video. They decide to take a break from filming their dangerous stunts and decide to rope in their friend Shaun and their cameraman Taylor for a day trip to Tijuana. Tijuana, hoping to seek out a prime location to finish their video. The skateboarders eventually find an old flood channel full of strange symbols, and then proceed to run afoul of a mysterious cult.
cult.
* ''Vicious Circles'' - The wraparound story.
* ''Dante
* ''Parallel Monsters'' - In Spain, an inventor named Alfonso
* ''Bonestorm'' - Jason and Danny are a pair of
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* [[AbusiveParents Abusive Grandparent]]: Kevin of ''Vicious Circles'' lives with his grandmother with whom he is constantly quarreling and who bloodies his nose during a particularly vicious argument.
* ActionGirl: Scarlett. She quickly gets the hang of the TeleportGun duel she finds herself in with [[spoiler: Dante]] and doesn't back down, despite, or perhaps because of having seen what he's capable of.
* ActionSurvivor: [[spoiler: Jason and Danny]] of ''Bonestorm.''
* AffablyEvil: The universe Alfonso visits in ''Parallel Monsters'' might be inhabited by HornyDevils [[spoiler: with monstrous genitalia,]] who revel in gruesome rituals and films of human sacrifice, but other than that, they're really nice people who are just doing what's normal for them.
* AnArmAndALeg: The wraparound features a bicyclist being dragged by a van until [[spoiler: his feet tear off.]]
** [[spoiler: Taylor]] in ''Bonestorm'' gets his arm torn off.
* ArcWords: "Haven't you ever wanted to be a part of something greater than yourself?"
* ActionGirl: Scarlett. She quickly gets the hang of the TeleportGun duel she finds herself in with [[spoiler: Dante]] and doesn't back down, despite, or perhaps because of having seen what he's capable of.
* ActionSurvivor: [[spoiler: Jason and Danny]] of ''Bonestorm.''
* AffablyEvil: The universe Alfonso visits in ''Parallel Monsters'' might be inhabited by HornyDevils [[spoiler: with monstrous genitalia,]] who revel in gruesome rituals and films of human sacrifice, but other than that, they're really nice people who are just doing what's normal for them.
* AnArmAndALeg: The wraparound features a bicyclist being dragged by a van until [[spoiler: his feet tear off.]]
** [[spoiler: Taylor]] in ''Bonestorm'' gets his arm torn off.
* ArcWords: "Haven't you ever wanted to be a part of something greater than yourself?"
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[[folder:General]]
* CallBack: The wraparound is littered with [[FreezeFrameBonus Freeze Frame Bonuses]] of characters from the franchises' previous installments, such as Lily from the first film and Father and Lena from the second.
* CosmicHorrorStory: Only hinted at in the wraparound segments of the previous films, it is seemingly confirmed by the end of this one. Each of the other segments fits this trope as well.
* CrapsackWorld: Adding to the tally of the previous installments, we now have an EldritchAbomination disguised as an article of clothing, a zombie cult and the maneating demon who leads them, and the videos of all these things might just have finally succeeded in bringing about [[spoiler: TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.]] Yet somehow there still manages to be a parallel world that's even more of a crapsack than this one.
* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: A mainstay trait of the series that continues here, uninterrupted.
* NonIndicativeName: Unlike the prior films in this series, the film medium is only logically part of ''Parallel Monsters'' -- ''Dante the Great'' has VHS tapes referenced, but not exclusively, and ''Bonestorm'' and ''Vicious Circles'' both expressly do not use VHS at all.
* NothingIsScarier: An arm here and a leg there are all that is ever seen of the {{Big Bad}}s of ''Dante The Great'' and ''Bonestorm.'' [[spoiler: The driver of the ice cream van]] is never seen at all.
* OddballInTheSeries: ''Film/{{VHS}}'' and ''Film/VHS2'' varied up their entries' sub-genres. ''Viral'' instead has three demonic/satanic-themed entries, and two of them being almost primarily action films. See also ReimaginingTheArtifact below.
* ReimaginingTheArtifact: ''Viral'' no longer involves someone actively watching the vignettes shown, and indeed has distanced itself from the VHS medium of the prior movies. Instead, the stories are something bystanders are watching during the wraparound segment (but which the protagonist is oblivious to except for noticing the [[EyeScream bleeding eyes]]), and most of the camera work is clearly using digital cameras or phone cameras.
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[[folder:Vicious Circles]]
* [[AbusiveParents Abusive Grandparent]]: Kevinof ''Vicious Circles'' lives with his grandmother grandmother, with whom he is constantly quarreling and who quarreling. She even bloodies his nose offscreen during a particularly vicious argument.
*ActionGirl: Scarlett. She quickly gets the hang of the TeleportGun duel she finds herself in with [[spoiler: Dante]] and doesn't back down, despite, or perhaps because of having seen what he's capable of.
* ActionSurvivor: [[spoiler: Jason and Danny]] of ''Bonestorm.''
* AffablyEvil: The universe Alfonso visits in ''Parallel Monsters'' might be inhabited by HornyDevils [[spoiler: with monstrous genitalia,]] who revel in gruesome rituals and films of human sacrifice, but other than that, they're really nice people who are just doing what's normal for them.
*AnArmAndALeg: The wraparound features At one point, a bicyclist being is dragged down the street by a the van until [[spoiler: his feet tear off.]]
** [[spoiler: Taylor]] in ''Bonestorm'' gets his arm torn off.
* ArcWords: "Haven't you ever wanted to be a part of something greater bigger than yourself?"you?"
[[folder:General]]
* CallBack: The wraparound is littered with [[FreezeFrameBonus Freeze Frame Bonuses]] of characters from the franchises' previous installments, such as Lily from the first film and Father and Lena from the second.
* CosmicHorrorStory: Only hinted at in the wraparound segments of the previous films, it is seemingly confirmed by the end of this one. Each of the other segments fits this trope as well.
* CrapsackWorld: Adding to the tally of the previous installments, we now have an EldritchAbomination disguised as an article of clothing, a zombie cult and the maneating demon who leads them, and the videos of all these things might just have finally succeeded in bringing about [[spoiler: TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.]] Yet somehow there still manages to be a parallel world that's even more of a crapsack than this one.
* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: A mainstay trait of the series that continues here, uninterrupted.
* NonIndicativeName: Unlike the prior films in this series, the film medium is only logically part of ''Parallel Monsters'' -- ''Dante the Great'' has VHS tapes referenced, but not exclusively, and ''Bonestorm'' and ''Vicious Circles'' both expressly do not use VHS at all.
* NothingIsScarier: An arm here and a leg there are all that is ever seen of the {{Big Bad}}s of ''Dante The Great'' and ''Bonestorm.'' [[spoiler: The driver of the ice cream van]] is never seen at all.
* OddballInTheSeries: ''Film/{{VHS}}'' and ''Film/VHS2'' varied up their entries' sub-genres. ''Viral'' instead has three demonic/satanic-themed entries, and two of them being almost primarily action films. See also ReimaginingTheArtifact below.
* ReimaginingTheArtifact: ''Viral'' no longer involves someone actively watching the vignettes shown, and indeed has distanced itself from the VHS medium of the prior movies. Instead, the stories are something bystanders are watching during the wraparound segment (but which the protagonist is oblivious to except for noticing the [[EyeScream bleeding eyes]]), and most of the camera work is clearly using digital cameras or phone cameras.
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[[folder:Vicious Circles]]
* [[AbusiveParents Abusive Grandparent]]: Kevin
*
* ActionSurvivor: [[spoiler: Jason and Danny]] of ''Bonestorm.''
* AffablyEvil: The universe Alfonso visits in ''Parallel Monsters'' might be inhabited by HornyDevils [[spoiler: with monstrous genitalia,]] who revel in gruesome rituals and films of human sacrifice, but other than that, they're really nice people who are just doing what's normal for them.
*
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* ArtifactOfDoom: The cloak in ''Dante The Great'', which houses, or may be an extension of, a hungry EldritchAbomination.
* AssholeVictim:
** ''Bonestorm's'' [[spoiler:Taylor]] seems to be a sadist, pretending not to have caught the group's successful stunts on film and urging them to do more dangerous things. [[spoiler: He's the first to die.]]
** [[spoiler: Scarlett's boyfriend, Clay.]]
** [[spoiler: The porn director and his taxi driver accomplice.]]
** [[spoiler: It's hard to feel bad over Dante's death when you consider that by this stage he was sacrificing people to use his cloak both for personal gain and willy-nilly.]]
* BadassNormal: Teenaged punk skaters Danny and Jason are incredibly tenacious, tough, and resourceful in a fight, able to hold their own in a skate park brawl against a pair of unfriendly skaters [[spoiler:and eventually against a seemingly endless army of undead.]]
* AssholeVictim:
** ''Bonestorm's'' [[spoiler:Taylor]] seems to be a sadist, pretending not to have caught the group's successful stunts on film and urging them to do more dangerous things. [[spoiler: He's the first to die.]]
** [[spoiler: Scarlett's boyfriend, Clay.]]
** [[spoiler: The porn director and his taxi driver accomplice.]]
** [[spoiler: It's hard to feel bad over Dante's death when you consider that by this stage he was sacrificing people to use his cloak both for personal gain and willy-nilly.]]
* BadassNormal: Teenaged punk skaters Danny and Jason are incredibly tenacious, tough, and resourceful in a fight, able to hold their own in a skate park brawl against a pair of unfriendly skaters [[spoiler:and eventually against a seemingly endless army of undead.]]
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* ArtifactOfDoom: The cloak in ''Dante The Great'', which houses, or may be an extension of, a hungry EldritchAbomination.
* AssholeVictim:
** ''Bonestorm's'' [[spoiler:Taylor]] seems to be a sadist, pretending not to have caught the group's successful stunts on film and urging them to do more dangerous things. [[spoiler: He's the first to die.]]
** [[spoiler: Scarlett's boyfriend, Clay.]]
**AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: The porn director and his taxi driver accomplice.]]
** [[spoiler: It's hard to feel bad over Dante's death when you consider that by this stage he was sacrificing people to use his cloak both for personal gain and willy-nilly.]]
* BadassNormal: Teenaged punk skaters Danny and Jason are incredibly tenacious, tough, and resourceful in a fight, able to hold their own in a skate park brawl against a pair of unfriendly skaters [[spoiler:and eventually against a seemingly endless army of undead.]]
* AssholeVictim:
** ''Bonestorm's'' [[spoiler:Taylor]] seems to be a sadist, pretending not to have caught the group's successful stunts on film and urging them to do more dangerous things. [[spoiler: He's the first to die.]]
** [[spoiler: Scarlett's boyfriend, Clay.]]
**
** [[spoiler: It's hard to feel bad over Dante's death when you consider that by this stage he was sacrificing people to use his cloak both for personal gain and willy-nilly.]]
* BadassNormal: Teenaged punk skaters Danny and Jason are incredibly tenacious, tough, and resourceful in a fight, able to hold their own in a skate park brawl against a pair of unfriendly skaters [[spoiler:and eventually against a seemingly endless army of undead.
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* ChekhovsGun:
** ''Bonestorm'' features a literal one. Early on, Jason reveals that he owns a semi-automatic handgun, presumably for showing off or intimidation. [[spoiler:It appears again at the climax, allowing him to take down several attackers with ease.]]
** [[spoiler: One of the magic props shown in Dante's studio is a bed of nails. It is later used to impale a SWAT team member.]]
* ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler: The rope trick Dante teaches Scarlett winds up being what she uses to defeat him.]]
* ClickHello: [[spoiler: At one point in the climax of ''Dante the Great'', he switches places with a SWAT officer down to their CLOTHES, shooting the officer's partner in the back after the one he switched with is shot in his stead.]]
* ContinuityNod:
** The wraparound is littered with [[FreezeFrameBonus Freeze Frame Bonuses]] of characters from the franchises' previous installments, such as Lily from the first film and Father from the second.
** In ''Bonestorm'' cultists sacrifice themselves to release a demon who rewards them by reanimating them as undead: a sequence of events so similar to what happened in [[Film/VHS2 Safe Haven]] that it's difficult to imagine they are not connected.
* CosmicHorrorStory: Only hinted at in the wraparound segments of the previous films, it is seemingly confirmed by the end of this one. Each of the other segments fits this trope as well.
* CrapsackWorld: Adding to the tally of the previous installments, we now have an EldritchAbomination disguised as an article of clothing, a zombie cult and the maneating demon who leads them, and the videos of all these things might just have finally succeeded in bringing about [[spoiler: TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.]] Yet somehow there still manages to be a parallel world that's even more of a crapsack than this one.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Clay, Scarlett's abusive boyfriend in ''Dante the Great,'' [[spoiler:ends up having multiple bones broken by Dante's telekinesis before Dante finally kills him. Several of the SWAT officers in the climax suffer similar fates.]]
* DamselInDistress: Iris disappears, her frantic, screaming image on Kevin's phone giving him hope that she is still alive.
* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: A mainstay trait of the series that continues here, uninterrupted.
* DomesticAbuse: Clay in ''Dante The Great.'' Too bad for him his girlfriend is in the employ of a SerialKiller.
* DrivenToMadness: Whatever Mirror!Alfonso did to Marta, it apparently left her screaming insane.
** ''Bonestorm'' features a literal one. Early on, Jason reveals that he owns a semi-automatic handgun, presumably for showing off or intimidation. [[spoiler:It appears again at the climax, allowing him to take down several attackers with ease.]]
** [[spoiler: One of the magic props shown in Dante's studio is a bed of nails. It is later used to impale a SWAT team member.]]
* ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler: The rope trick Dante teaches Scarlett winds up being what she uses to defeat him.]]
* ClickHello: [[spoiler: At one point in the climax of ''Dante the Great'', he switches places with a SWAT officer down to their CLOTHES, shooting the officer's partner in the back after the one he switched with is shot in his stead.]]
* ContinuityNod:
** The wraparound is littered with [[FreezeFrameBonus Freeze Frame Bonuses]] of characters from the franchises' previous installments, such as Lily from the first film and Father from the second.
** In ''Bonestorm'' cultists sacrifice themselves to release a demon who rewards them by reanimating them as undead: a sequence of events so similar to what happened in [[Film/VHS2 Safe Haven]] that it's difficult to imagine they are not connected.
* CosmicHorrorStory: Only hinted at in the wraparound segments of the previous films, it is seemingly confirmed by the end of this one. Each of the other segments fits this trope as well.
* CrapsackWorld: Adding to the tally of the previous installments, we now have an EldritchAbomination disguised as an article of clothing, a zombie cult and the maneating demon who leads them, and the videos of all these things might just have finally succeeded in bringing about [[spoiler: TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.]] Yet somehow there still manages to be a parallel world that's even more of a crapsack than this one.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Clay, Scarlett's abusive boyfriend in ''Dante the Great,'' [[spoiler:ends up having multiple bones broken by Dante's telekinesis before Dante finally kills him. Several of the SWAT officers in the climax suffer similar fates.]]
* DamselInDistress: Iris disappears, her frantic, screaming image on Kevin's phone giving him hope that she is still alive.
* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: A mainstay trait of the series that continues here, uninterrupted.
* DomesticAbuse: Clay in ''Dante The Great.'' Too bad for him his girlfriend is in the employ of a SerialKiller.
* DrivenToMadness: Whatever Mirror!Alfonso did to Marta, it apparently left her screaming insane.
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* ChekhovsGun:
** ''Bonestorm'' features a literal one. Early on, Jason reveals that he owns a semi-automatic handgun, presumably for showing off or intimidation. [[spoiler:It appears again atCallBack: The girl who pulls the climax, allowing him to take down several attackers with ease.]]
** [[spoiler: One ofgun on the magic props shown in Dante's studio porno director is a bed of nails. It is later used hinted to impale a SWAT team member.]]
* ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler: The rope trick Dante teaches Scarlett winds up being what she uses to defeat him.]]
* ClickHello: [[spoiler: At one point inbe the climax of ''Dante the Great'', he switches places with a SWAT officer down to their CLOTHES, shooting the officer's partner in the back after the one he switched with is shot in his stead.]]
* ContinuityNod:
** The wraparound is littered with [[FreezeFrameBonus Freeze Frame Bonuses]] of characters from the franchises' previous installments, such as Lilygirl from the first film and Father from the second.
** In ''Bonestorm'' cultists sacrifice themselves to release a demon who rewards them by reanimating them as undead: a sequence of events so similar to what happened in [[Film/VHS2 Safe Haven]] that it's difficult to imagine they are not connected.
* CosmicHorrorStory: Only hinted at in the wraparound segments of the previous films, it is seemingly confirmed by the end of this one. Each of the other segments fits this trope as well.
* CrapsackWorld: Adding to the tally of the previous installments, we now have an EldritchAbomination disguised as an article of clothing, a zombie cult and the maneating demon who leads them, and the videos of all these things might just have finally succeeded in bringing about [[spoiler: TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.]] Yet somehow there still manages to be a parallel world that's even more of a crapsack than this one.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Clay, Scarlett's abusivetwo movies. Her boyfriend in ''Dante the Great,'' [[spoiler:ends up first film, one of the thugs from Tape 56, was mentioned to have sold the sex tape he was filming to a reality porn site. She confirms that this was actually true, and she's gone after the porno director first because he bought the footage for his blog, the exposure apparently having multiple bones broken by Dante's telekinesis before Dante finally kills him. Several of had a massive negative impact on the SWAT officers in the climax suffer similar fates.]]
girl's life.
* DamselInDistress: Irisdisappears, disappears at the beginning of the film, and her frantic, screaming image on Kevin's phone is the only thing giving him hope that she is she's still alive.
*DevelopingDoomedCharacters: TheDogBitesBack: A mainstay trait of the series that continues here, uninterrupted.
* DomesticAbuse: Clay in ''Dante The Great.'' Too badwoman being filmed by a man for an amateur porn site turns out to already be on it, due to him his girlfriend is having bought some old footage from her ex. She draws a gun and forces him to strip, threatening to shoot him in the employ of a SerialKiller.
* DrivenToMadness: Whatever Mirror!Alfonso did to Marta, it apparently leftgroin and implying via her screaming insane.dialogue that the exposure had a massive negative impact on her life.
** ''Bonestorm'' features a literal one. Early on, Jason reveals that he owns a semi-automatic handgun, presumably for showing off or intimidation. [[spoiler:It appears again at
** [[spoiler: One of
* ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler: The rope trick Dante teaches Scarlett winds up being what she uses to defeat him.]]
* ClickHello: [[spoiler: At one point in
* ContinuityNod:
** The wraparound is littered with [[FreezeFrameBonus Freeze Frame Bonuses]] of characters from the franchises' previous installments, such as Lily
** In ''Bonestorm'' cultists sacrifice themselves to release a demon who rewards them by reanimating them as undead: a sequence of events so similar to what happened in [[Film/VHS2 Safe Haven]] that it's difficult to imagine they are not connected.
* CosmicHorrorStory: Only hinted at in the wraparound segments of the previous films, it is seemingly confirmed by the end of this one. Each of the other segments fits this trope as well.
* CrapsackWorld: Adding to the tally of the previous installments, we now have an EldritchAbomination disguised as an article of clothing, a zombie cult and the maneating demon who leads them, and the videos of all these things might just have finally succeeded in bringing about [[spoiler: TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.]] Yet somehow there still manages to be a parallel world that's even more of a crapsack than this one.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Clay, Scarlett's abusive
* DamselInDistress: Iris
*
* DomesticAbuse: Clay in ''Dante The Great.'' Too bad
* DrivenToMadness: Whatever Mirror!Alfonso did to Marta, it apparently left
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* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: Dante in ''Dante the Great.'' When he discovers what he needs to do to fuel his cloak's powers, he is initially hesitant, but soon becomes intoxicated with the things the cloak lets him do.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: It's implied that Dante genuinely cares for Scarlett, up until she turns him in to the police.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Dante in ''Dante the Great'' kills his assistant's abusive boyfriend, apparently as punishment for said abuse, even commenting "What a dick."
** The parallel Alphonso is apparently deeply disturbed by what happens during his off-screen encounter with main-world Marta in ''Parallel Monsters.'' [[spoiler: Doesn't stop him from trying to kill main-world Alphonso. Also played straight with parallel-Marta, who kills parallel-Alpohonso because she thinks he hit her.]]
* EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep: In ''Bonestorm'', Shaun introduces himself by his real name, but Jason and Danny refer to him as Gas Money Kid, likely because they aren't familiar with him. Same goes for Camera Guy, who later reveals that his name is Taylor.
* EvilSoundsDeep: The occult chant in ''Bonestorm.''
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: It's implied that Dante genuinely cares for Scarlett, up until she turns him in to the police.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Dante in ''Dante the Great'' kills his assistant's abusive boyfriend, apparently as punishment for said abuse, even commenting "What a dick."
** The parallel Alphonso is apparently deeply disturbed by what happens during his off-screen encounter with main-world Marta in ''Parallel Monsters.'' [[spoiler: Doesn't stop him from trying to kill main-world Alphonso. Also played straight with parallel-Marta, who kills parallel-Alpohonso because she thinks he hit her.]]
* EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep: In ''Bonestorm'', Shaun introduces himself by his real name, but Jason and Danny refer to him as Gas Money Kid, likely because they aren't familiar with him. Same goes for Camera Guy, who later reveals that his name is Taylor.
* EvilSoundsDeep: The occult chant in ''Bonestorm.''
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* FanDisservice: A shot of a naked grandmother who has to be at least in her 70s. [[spoiler: Also, Mirror!Marta and her very prominent VaginaDentata.]]
* {{Fanservice}}: Averted. A short sequence of a woman stripping for an amateur porn director in ''Vicious Circles'' initially looks like it's going to be this, but quickly turns to FanDisservice when she pulls a gun and turns the tables on him.
** Iris briefly flashes the camera in the opening segment, but it's heavily distorted.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Dante in ''Dante the Great.'' He has stage presence and charisma when things are going right, but the instant the smallest thing escapes his control he starts losing his temper. He even makes a series of {{pun}}s when using the cloak to [[spoiler: fight off a SWAT team.]]
* FlippingTheBird: One of the skeletons in ''Bonestorm'' does this just before exploding from a firework.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the wake of the skate park brawl, Danny scoffs at Jason, saying that in a life-or-death fight Jason would leave him to die. At the end, the Skullfaces overwhelm him as he tells Jason to save himself, [[spoiler:prompting Jason to sucessfully rescue him and finish off the undead with illegal fireworks.]]
* FromNobodyToNightmare: The title character of ''Dante The Great.'' He starts out as an unemployed trailer park hick who constantly fumbles amateur magic tricks to the amusement of his friends. All that changes when he finds a magician's cloak imbued with frightening supernatural power.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The blood from Taylor's [[spoiler: severed arm]] catches fire. Cut to Danny and Jason continuing to fight for their lives while Taylor runs past in the background, screaming, flailing and [[spoiler: on fire.]]
* GameFace: When preparing to [[spoiler: attack with their genitalia]] the titular beings of ''Parallel Monsters'' [[GlowingEyesOfDoom radiate red light from their eyes and mouths]].
* GroinAttack: [[spoiler: Alfonso escapes from an attacking monster by skewering its demonic phallus with the screwdriver he carries.]]
** [[spoiler: Inverted when the mirror-Alfonso is shown being devoured alive by his wife's VaginaDentata.]]
** Threatened by a woman to a skeezy porn producer in the wraparound story.
* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: Scarlett kills Dante and burns the cloak, only for it to [[ClingyMacGuffin appear again, unharmed in her house, where it promptly seizes her.]]]]
** [[spoiler: Kevin catches up with the icecream truck holding Iris, but it's a trap, and Iris was DeadAllAlong.]]
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Creator/HarryHoudini had a brief relationship with the cloak that empowers Dante The Great. He got wise and chucked it.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Scarlett uses a rope trick that Dante himself taught her to feed him to the cloak.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: A recurring theme of the series, it reaches ludicrous extremes in ''Parallel Monsters.''
* IHaveYourWife: At the film's climax [[spoiler: it's fairly obvious that Iris on the TV screen is under the control of someone or something else and Kevin carries out "her" orders in order to stop her hurting herself. It turns out she was DeadAllAlong]].
* ImprobableInfantSurvival: Only one child is implied to be involved in any of the movie (the one recording the gangbangers' party), and they are expressly spared the events they witnessed.
* IronicEcho:
** Deliberately invoked by Scarlett at the end of ''Dante the Great.''
** ''Bonestorm'' has Danny mockingly insist that his friend would abandon him in a moment if things got dangerous. [[spoiler: His friend comes through.]]
* JerkassWithAHeartOfGold: Jason and Danny from ''Bonestorm'' fit this. Throughout the segment, they trespass on private property to get footage of their skateboarding stunts and constantly insult Taylor, who to be fair is mostly recording them to see them fail. On the other hand, they act more respectfully to the other skateboarders at the park, complimenting a younger skater's skills and apologizing to another pair of skaters after accidentally crashing into them, and also help out a hobo. [[spoiler:Finally, by the end of the segment, [[BashBrothers both of them]] back each other up in the fight against the cult.]]
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Dante again. Once he realizes what the cloak needs to fuel its powers, it doesn't take him long to start doing it as a simple matter of course.
* KarmicDeath: Many.
** ''Dante the Great'': [[spoiler: Clay, Scarlett's abusive boyfriend, as well as Dante himself.]]
** ''Parallel Monsters'': Inverted: [[spoiler:Both versions of Alfonso end up hurting the other's version of Marta, but it's through mutual misunderstanding and fear rather than malice. Both end up being killed for things that their mirror!version did.]]
** ''Bonestorm'': [[spoiler:Taylor the camera guy, who is easily the biggest {{Jerkass}} of the protagonists, gets his arm ripped off by a cultist before getting burned to death by the cultists' inflammable AlienBlood. Meanwhile, Jason and Danny, [[JerkassWithAHeartOfGold who have more redeeming qualities]], manage to escape with their lives.]]
* LudicrousGibs: ''Vicious Circles'' invokes this trope throughout, but most brutally when the ice cream truck strikes a police officer so hard that he explodes, his twitching arm landing at Kevin's feet.
* MadeOfPlasticine: The Skull Faces die from one or two good whacks with a skateboard deck. [[spoiler: And then avert this trope, by rising from the dead repeatedly [[RasputinianDeath until they are nothing but skeletons]].]]
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: At one point during the wraparound [[spoiler: a [[KickTheDog dog gets impaled through the head by a serving fork.]] It just sits there, seemingly still alive and unaware of the wound.]]
** Whatever transpires between [[spoiler: Evil Alfonso and Good Martha]] leaves both of them drenched in blood from head to toe. Neither of them seems significantly impaired by it.
*** In ''Bonestorm'', Danny gets his face [[spoiler: ''set on fire.'']] After a splash of water he's ready to keep fighting like nothing happened.
* MeaningfulName:
** The protagonist of ''Dante The Great'' is a redhead named Scarlett.
** Averted with Dante himself. It's just his StageName.
** The female protagonist of the wraparound story, Iris, is seen almost exclusively through the lenses of various cameras.
* MoreThanMindControl: Implied to be happening with several people in ''Vicious Circles'', most notably Iris, who walks out into the middle of the street before disappearing, and [[spoiler: seemingly taunts Kevin from a TV in the ending.]]
* {{Fanservice}}: Averted. A short sequence of a woman stripping for an amateur porn director in ''Vicious Circles'' initially looks like it's going to be this, but quickly turns to FanDisservice when she pulls a gun and turns the tables on him.
** Iris briefly flashes the camera in the opening segment, but it's heavily distorted.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Dante in ''Dante the Great.'' He has stage presence and charisma when things are going right, but the instant the smallest thing escapes his control he starts losing his temper. He even makes a series of {{pun}}s when using the cloak to [[spoiler: fight off a SWAT team.]]
* FlippingTheBird: One of the skeletons in ''Bonestorm'' does this just before exploding from a firework.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the wake of the skate park brawl, Danny scoffs at Jason, saying that in a life-or-death fight Jason would leave him to die. At the end, the Skullfaces overwhelm him as he tells Jason to save himself, [[spoiler:prompting Jason to sucessfully rescue him and finish off the undead with illegal fireworks.]]
* FromNobodyToNightmare: The title character of ''Dante The Great.'' He starts out as an unemployed trailer park hick who constantly fumbles amateur magic tricks to the amusement of his friends. All that changes when he finds a magician's cloak imbued with frightening supernatural power.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The blood from Taylor's [[spoiler: severed arm]] catches fire. Cut to Danny and Jason continuing to fight for their lives while Taylor runs past in the background, screaming, flailing and [[spoiler: on fire.]]
* GameFace: When preparing to [[spoiler: attack with their genitalia]] the titular beings of ''Parallel Monsters'' [[GlowingEyesOfDoom radiate red light from their eyes and mouths]].
* GroinAttack: [[spoiler: Alfonso escapes from an attacking monster by skewering its demonic phallus with the screwdriver he carries.]]
** [[spoiler: Inverted when the mirror-Alfonso is shown being devoured alive by his wife's VaginaDentata.]]
** Threatened by a woman to a skeezy porn producer in the wraparound story.
* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: Scarlett kills Dante and burns the cloak, only for it to [[ClingyMacGuffin appear again, unharmed in her house, where it promptly seizes her.]]]]
** [[spoiler: Kevin catches up with the icecream truck holding Iris, but it's a trap, and Iris was DeadAllAlong.]]
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Creator/HarryHoudini had a brief relationship with the cloak that empowers Dante The Great. He got wise and chucked it.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Scarlett uses a rope trick that Dante himself taught her to feed him to the cloak.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: A recurring theme of the series, it reaches ludicrous extremes in ''Parallel Monsters.''
* IHaveYourWife: At the film's climax [[spoiler: it's fairly obvious that Iris on the TV screen is under the control of someone or something else and Kevin carries out "her" orders in order to stop her hurting herself. It turns out she was DeadAllAlong]].
* ImprobableInfantSurvival: Only one child is implied to be involved in any of the movie (the one recording the gangbangers' party), and they are expressly spared the events they witnessed.
* IronicEcho:
** Deliberately invoked by Scarlett at the end of ''Dante the Great.''
** ''Bonestorm'' has Danny mockingly insist that his friend would abandon him in a moment if things got dangerous. [[spoiler: His friend comes through.]]
* JerkassWithAHeartOfGold: Jason and Danny from ''Bonestorm'' fit this. Throughout the segment, they trespass on private property to get footage of their skateboarding stunts and constantly insult Taylor, who to be fair is mostly recording them to see them fail. On the other hand, they act more respectfully to the other skateboarders at the park, complimenting a younger skater's skills and apologizing to another pair of skaters after accidentally crashing into them, and also help out a hobo. [[spoiler:Finally, by the end of the segment, [[BashBrothers both of them]] back each other up in the fight against the cult.]]
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Dante again. Once he realizes what the cloak needs to fuel its powers, it doesn't take him long to start doing it as a simple matter of course.
* KarmicDeath: Many.
** ''Dante the Great'': [[spoiler: Clay, Scarlett's abusive boyfriend, as well as Dante himself.]]
** ''Parallel Monsters'': Inverted: [[spoiler:Both versions of Alfonso end up hurting the other's version of Marta, but it's through mutual misunderstanding and fear rather than malice. Both end up being killed for things that their mirror!version did.]]
** ''Bonestorm'': [[spoiler:Taylor the camera guy, who is easily the biggest {{Jerkass}} of the protagonists, gets his arm ripped off by a cultist before getting burned to death by the cultists' inflammable AlienBlood. Meanwhile, Jason and Danny, [[JerkassWithAHeartOfGold who have more redeeming qualities]], manage to escape with their lives.]]
* LudicrousGibs: ''Vicious Circles'' invokes this trope throughout, but most brutally when the ice cream truck strikes a police officer so hard that he explodes, his twitching arm landing at Kevin's feet.
* MadeOfPlasticine: The Skull Faces die from one or two good whacks with a skateboard deck. [[spoiler: And then avert this trope, by rising from the dead repeatedly [[RasputinianDeath until they are nothing but skeletons]].]]
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: At one point during the wraparound [[spoiler: a [[KickTheDog dog gets impaled through the head by a serving fork.]] It just sits there, seemingly still alive and unaware of the wound.]]
** Whatever transpires between [[spoiler: Evil Alfonso and Good Martha]] leaves both of them drenched in blood from head to toe. Neither of them seems significantly impaired by it.
*** In ''Bonestorm'', Danny gets his face [[spoiler: ''set on fire.'']] After a splash of water he's ready to keep fighting like nothing happened.
* MeaningfulName:
** The protagonist of ''Dante The Great'' is a redhead named Scarlett.
** Averted with Dante himself. It's just his StageName.
** The female protagonist of the wraparound story, Iris, is seen almost exclusively through the lenses of various cameras.
* MoreThanMindControl: Implied to be happening with several people in ''Vicious Circles'', most notably Iris, who walks out into the middle of the street before disappearing, and [[spoiler: seemingly taunts Kevin from a TV in the ending.]]
to:
* FanDisservice: A shot As Kevin races outside to shoot the police chase, we catch a glimpse of a naked grandmother his grandmother, who has to be at least in her 70s. [[spoiler: Also, Mirror!Marta and her very prominent VaginaDentata.]]
70s, stepping out of the shower.
* {{Fanservice}}: Averted. A short sequence of a woman stripping for an amateur porn directorin ''Vicious Circles'' initially looks like it's going to be this, but it quickly turns to FanDisservice when she pulls a gun and turns the tables on him.
** Played straight in the beginning where Iris briefly flashes thecamera in camera, albeit the opening segment, footage is heavily distorted.
* GroinAttack: Threatened by a woman to a skeezy porn producer who bought footage of her from her ex.
* HopeSpot [[spoiler: Kevin catches up with the vam holding Iris, but it'sheavily distorted.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Dante in ''Dante the Great.'' He has stage presencea trap, and charisma when things are going right, but the instant the smallest thing escapes his control he starts losing his temper. He even makes a series of {{pun}}s when using the cloak to [[spoiler: fight off a SWAT team.Iris was DeadAllAlong.]]
* FlippingTheBird: One of the skeletons in ''Bonestorm'' does this just before exploding from a firework.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the wake of the skate park brawl, Danny scoffs at Jason, saying that in a life-or-death fight Jason would leave him to die. At the end, the Skullfaces overwhelm him as he tells Jason to save himself, [[spoiler:prompting Jason to sucessfully rescue him and finish off the undead with illegal fireworks.]]
* FromNobodyToNightmare: The title character of ''Dante The Great.'' He starts out as an unemployed trailer park hick who constantly fumbles amateur magic tricks to the amusement of his friends. All that changes when he finds a magician's cloak imbued with frightening supernatural power.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The blood from Taylor's [[spoiler: severed arm]] catches fire. Cut to Danny and Jason continuing to fight for their lives while Taylor runs past in the background, screaming, flailing and [[spoiler: on fire.]]
* GameFace: When preparing to [[spoiler: attack with their genitalia]] the titular beings of ''Parallel Monsters'' [[GlowingEyesOfDoom radiate red light from their eyes and mouths]].
* GroinAttack: [[spoiler: Alfonso escapes from an attacking monster by skewering its demonic phallus with the screwdriver he carries.]]
** [[spoiler: Inverted when the mirror-Alfonso is shown being devoured alive by his wife's VaginaDentata.]]
** Threatened by a woman to a skeezy porn producer in the wraparound story.
* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: Scarlett kills Dante and burns the cloak, only for it to [[ClingyMacGuffin appear again, unharmed in her house, where it promptly seizes her.]]]]
** [[spoiler: Kevin catches up with the icecream truck holding Iris, but it's a trap, and Iris was DeadAllAlong.]]
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Creator/HarryHoudini had a brief relationship with the cloak that empowers Dante The Great. He got wise and chucked it.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Scarlett uses a rope trick that Dante himself taught her to feed him to the cloak.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: A recurring theme of the series, it reaches ludicrous extremes in ''Parallel Monsters.''
* IHaveYourWife: At the film's climax climax, [[spoiler: it's fairly obvious that Iris on the TV screen is under the control of someone or something else else, and Kevin carries out "her" orders in order to stop her hurting herself. It turns out she was DeadAllAlong]].
* ImprobableInfantSurvival: Only one child isimplied to be involved in any of the movie (the one recording the gangbangers' party), and they are expressly spared the events they witnessed.
* IronicEcho:
** Deliberately invoked by Scarlett at the end of ''Dante the Great.''
** ''Bonestorm'' has Danny mockingly insist that his friend would abandon him in a moment if things got dangerous. [[spoiler: His friend comes through.]]
* JerkassWithAHeartOfGold: Jason and Danny from ''Bonestorm'' fit this. Throughout the segment,witnessed... unless they trespass on private property to get footage of their skateboarding stunts died when the gas tank ruptured and constantly insult Taylor, who to be fair is mostly recording them to see them fail. On the other hand, they act more respectfully to the other skateboarders at the park, complimenting a younger skater's skills and apologizing to another pair of skaters after accidentally crashing into them, and also help out a hobo. [[spoiler:Finally, by the end of the segment, [[BashBrothers both of them]] back each other up in the fight against the cult.]]
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Dante again. Once he realizes what the cloak needs to fuel its powers, it doesn't take him long to start doing it as a simple matter of course.
* KarmicDeath: Many.
** ''Dante the Great'': [[spoiler: Clay, Scarlett's abusive boyfriend, as well as Dante himself.]]
** ''Parallel Monsters'': Inverted: [[spoiler:Both versions of Alfonso end up hurting the other's version of Marta, but it's through mutual misunderstanding and fear rather than malice. Both end up being killed for things that their mirror!version did.]]
** ''Bonestorm'': [[spoiler:Taylor the camera guy, who is easily the biggest {{Jerkass}} of the protagonists, gets his arm ripped off by a cultist before getting burned to death by the cultists' inflammable AlienBlood. Meanwhile, Jason and Danny, [[JerkassWithAHeartOfGold who have more redeeming qualities]], manage to escape with their lives.]]
backyard exploded.
* LudicrousGibs:''Vicious Circles'' The segment invokes this trope throughout, but most brutally when the ice cream truck van strikes a police officer so hard that he explodes, his twitching arm landing at Kevin's feet.
*MadeOfPlasticine: The Skull Faces die from one or two good whacks with a skateboard deck. [[spoiler: And then avert this trope, by rising from the dead repeatedly [[RasputinianDeath until they are nothing but skeletons]].]]
*MajorInjuryUnderreaction: At one point during the wraparound point, [[spoiler: a [[KickTheDog dog belonging to one of the gangbangers gets impaled through the head by a serving fork.skewer.]] It just sits there, seemingly still alive and unaware of the wound.]]
** Whatever transpires between [[spoiler: Evil Alfonso and Good Martha]] leaves both of them drenched in blood from head to toe. Neither of them seems significantly impaired by it.
*** In ''Bonestorm'', Danny gets his face [[spoiler: ''set on fire.'']] After a splash of water he's ready to keep fighting like nothing happened.
* MeaningfulName:
** The protagonist of ''Dante The Great'' is a redhead named Scarlett.
** Averted with Dante himself. It's just his StageName.
** The female protagonist of the wraparound story,MeaningfulName: Kevin's girlfriend, Iris, is seen almost exclusively through the lenses of various cameras.
* MoreThanMindControl: Implied to be happening with several peoplein ''Vicious Circles'', throughout the segment, most notably Iris, who walks out into the middle of the street before disappearing, and [[spoiler: seemingly taunts Kevin from a TV in the ending.]]
* {{Fanservice}}: Averted. A short sequence of a woman stripping for an amateur porn director
** Played straight in the beginning where Iris briefly flashes the
* GroinAttack: Threatened by a woman to a skeezy porn producer who bought footage of her from her ex.
* HopeSpot [[spoiler: Kevin catches up with the vam holding Iris, but it's
* FauxAffablyEvil: Dante in ''Dante the Great.'' He has stage presence
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the wake of the skate park brawl, Danny scoffs at Jason, saying that in a life-or-death fight Jason would leave him to die. At the end, the Skullfaces overwhelm him as he tells Jason to save himself, [[spoiler:prompting Jason to sucessfully rescue him and finish off the undead with illegal fireworks.]]
* FromNobodyToNightmare: The title character of ''Dante The Great.'' He starts out as an unemployed trailer park hick who constantly fumbles amateur magic tricks to the amusement of his friends. All that changes when he finds a magician's cloak imbued with frightening supernatural power.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The blood from Taylor's [[spoiler: severed arm]] catches fire. Cut to Danny and Jason continuing to fight for their lives while Taylor runs past in the background, screaming, flailing and [[spoiler: on fire.]]
* GameFace: When preparing to [[spoiler: attack with their genitalia]] the titular beings of ''Parallel Monsters'' [[GlowingEyesOfDoom radiate red light from their eyes and mouths]].
* GroinAttack: [[spoiler: Alfonso escapes from an attacking monster by skewering its demonic phallus with the screwdriver he carries.]]
** [[spoiler: Inverted when the mirror-Alfonso is shown being devoured alive by his wife's VaginaDentata.]]
** Threatened by a woman to a skeezy porn producer in the wraparound story.
* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: Scarlett kills Dante and burns the cloak, only for it to [[ClingyMacGuffin appear again, unharmed in her house, where it promptly seizes her.]]]]
** [[spoiler: Kevin catches up with the icecream truck holding Iris, but it's a trap, and Iris was DeadAllAlong.]]
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Creator/HarryHoudini had a brief relationship with the cloak that empowers Dante The Great. He got wise and chucked it.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Scarlett uses a rope trick that Dante himself taught her to feed him to the cloak.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: A recurring theme of the series, it reaches ludicrous extremes in ''Parallel Monsters.''
* ImprobableInfantSurvival: Only one child is
* IronicEcho:
** Deliberately invoked by Scarlett at the end of ''Dante the Great.''
** ''Bonestorm'' has Danny mockingly insist that his friend would abandon him in a moment if things got dangerous. [[spoiler: His friend comes through.]]
* JerkassWithAHeartOfGold: Jason and Danny from ''Bonestorm'' fit this. Throughout the segment,
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Dante again. Once he realizes what the cloak needs to fuel its powers, it doesn't take him long to start doing it as a simple matter of course.
* KarmicDeath: Many.
** ''Dante the Great'': [[spoiler: Clay, Scarlett's abusive boyfriend, as well as Dante himself.]]
** ''Parallel Monsters'': Inverted: [[spoiler:Both versions of Alfonso end up hurting the other's version of Marta, but it's through mutual misunderstanding and fear rather than malice. Both end up being killed for things that their mirror!version did.]]
** ''Bonestorm'': [[spoiler:Taylor the camera guy, who is easily the biggest {{Jerkass}} of the protagonists, gets his arm ripped off by a cultist before getting burned to death by the cultists' inflammable AlienBlood. Meanwhile, Jason and Danny, [[JerkassWithAHeartOfGold who have more redeeming qualities]], manage to escape with their lives.]]
* LudicrousGibs:
*
*
*** In ''Bonestorm'', Danny gets his face [[spoiler: ''set on fire.'']] After a splash of water he's ready to keep fighting like nothing happened.
** The protagonist of ''Dante The Great'' is a redhead named Scarlett.
** Averted with Dante himself. It's just his StageName.
** The female protagonist of the wraparound story,
* MoreThanMindControl: Implied to be happening with several people
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* NonIndicativeName: Unlike the prior films in this series, the film medium is only logically part of ''Parallel Monsters'' -- ''Dante the Great'' has VHS tapes referenced, but not exclusively, and ''Bonestorm'' and ''Vicious Circles'' both expressly do not use VHS at all.
* NewMediaAreEvil: Implied in ''Vicious Circles'' where Website/YouTube and Twitter are specifically name-dropped as helping spread [[BrownNote evil videos]].
* NothingIsScarier: An arm here and a leg there are all that is ever seen of the {{Big Bad}}s of ''Dante The Great'' and ''Bonestorm.'' [[spoiler: The driver of the ice cream van]] is never seen at all.
* OddballInTheSeries: ''Film/{{VHS}}'' and ''Film/VHS2'' varied up their entries' sub-genres. ''Viral'' instead has three demonic/satanic-themed entries, and two of them being almost primarily action films. See also ReimaginingTheArtifact below.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler: Scarlett,]] when found by the cloak again.
** Jason and Danny when [[spoiler: the demon roars from underground and all the Skull Faces they've slain get back up.]]
* PersonOfMassDestruction: [[spoiler: Dante.]]
* PetTheDog: The teens in ''Bonestorm'' normally have zero regard for others, but when a homeless man approaches them they are happy to share their snacks and smokes with him, much to the chagrin of [[{{Jerkass}} Taylor]], who wants to see them fight him.
* PoliceAreUseless: Despite the van of ''Vicious Circles'' literally traveling in a circle, the police seem to have no clue how to stop it. Possibly justified by the further death and chaos created by the van diverting their attention and resources.
** The Tijuana police take one look at the situation in ''Bonestorm'' and say ScrewThisImOuttaHere.
* NewMediaAreEvil: Implied in ''Vicious Circles'' where Website/YouTube and Twitter are specifically name-dropped as helping spread [[BrownNote evil videos]].
* NothingIsScarier: An arm here and a leg there are all that is ever seen of the {{Big Bad}}s of ''Dante The Great'' and ''Bonestorm.'' [[spoiler: The driver of the ice cream van]] is never seen at all.
* OddballInTheSeries: ''Film/{{VHS}}'' and ''Film/VHS2'' varied up their entries' sub-genres. ''Viral'' instead has three demonic/satanic-themed entries, and two of them being almost primarily action films. See also ReimaginingTheArtifact below.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler: Scarlett,]] when found by the cloak again.
** Jason and Danny when [[spoiler: the demon roars from underground and all the Skull Faces they've slain get back up.]]
* PersonOfMassDestruction: [[spoiler: Dante.]]
* PetTheDog: The teens in ''Bonestorm'' normally have zero regard for others, but when a homeless man approaches them they are happy to share their snacks and smokes with him, much to the chagrin of [[{{Jerkass}} Taylor]], who wants to see them fight him.
* PoliceAreUseless: Despite the van of ''Vicious Circles'' literally traveling in a circle, the police seem to have no clue how to stop it. Possibly justified by the further death and chaos created by the van diverting their attention and resources.
** The Tijuana police take one look at the situation in ''Bonestorm'' and say ScrewThisImOuttaHere.
to:
* NothingIsScarier: An arm here and a leg there are all that is ever seen of the {{Big Bad}}s of ''Dante The Great'' and ''Bonestorm.'' [[spoiler: The driver of the ice cream van]] is never seen at all.
* OddballInTheSeries: ''Film/{{VHS}}'' and ''Film/VHS2'' varied up their entries' sub-genres. ''Viral'' instead has three demonic/satanic-themed entries, and two of them being almost primarily action films. See also ReimaginingTheArtifact below.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler: Scarlett,]] when found by the cloak again.
** Jason and Danny when [[spoiler: the demon roars from underground and all the Skull Faces they've slain get back up.]]
* PersonOfMassDestruction: [[spoiler: Dante.]]
* PetTheDog: The teens in ''Bonestorm'' normally have zero regard for others, but when a homeless man approaches them they are happy to share their snacks and smokes with him, much to the chagrin of [[{{Jerkass}} Taylor]], who wants to see them fight him.
* PoliceAreUseless: Despite the van
** The Tijuana police take one look at the situation in ''Bonestorm'' and say ScrewThisImOuttaHere.
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* ReimaginingTheArtifact: ''Viral'' no longer involves someone actively watching the vignettes shown, and indeed has distanced itself from the VHS medium of the prior movies. Instead, the stories are something bystanders are watching during the wraparound segment (but which the protagonist is oblivious to except for noticing the [[EyeScream bleeding eyes]]), and most of the camera work is clearly using digital cameras or phone cameras.
* ReligionOfEvil: The alternate world of ''Parallel Monsters'' is policed by massive blimps emblazoned with upside down crosses. Meanwhile, the inhabitants watch and perform gruesome rituals in their homes as entertainment.
** Whatever the cult in ''Bonestorm'' believes in, it probably counts.
* ReligionOfEvil: The alternate world of ''Parallel Monsters'' is policed by massive blimps emblazoned with upside down crosses. Meanwhile, the inhabitants watch and perform gruesome rituals in their homes as entertainment.
** Whatever the cult in ''Bonestorm'' believes in, it probably counts.
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* SignatureStyle: In ''Parallel Monsters'', Nacho Vigolondo once more indulges his fondness for the GlowingEyes and ThroatLight combination.
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* {{Squick}}: The other world in ''Parallel Monsters'' treats bloody dismemberment as foreplay. [[spoiler: Parallel-Marta is even visibly a little turned on at the thought her husband may have butchered one of her would-be lovers.]]
* {{Supervillain}}: Dante nails the trope through-and-through: a down-on-his luck street magician finds a magic cloak that grants him real powers in exchange for regular meals of human flesh. Subverted in that he has no super hero arch rival. [[spoiler: Instead he is defeated by a mundane aspiring magician who happens to know one clever trick that [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Dante himself taught her]].]]
* TheDogBitesBack: A woman being filmed by a man for an amateur porn site in the wraparound story turns out to already be on it, due to him having bought some old footage from her ex. She draws a gun and forces him to strip, threatening to shoot him in the groin and implying via her dialogue that the exposure had a massive negative impact on her life.
* TwinSwitch: ''Parallel Monsters'' is this with a dark twist.
* TheUnreveal: When Kevin finally catches up to the ice cream van the only sign of the driver is [[spoiler: [[MindScrew a pair of severed hands duct-taped to the steering wheel.]]]]
* VaginaDentata: ''Parallel Monsters'' shows female and male varieties.
* WhamShot: It quickly becomes obvious to both Alfonso and the viewer that something is very off about his and Marta's MirrorUniverse counterparts. When he looks up at the night sky and sees [[spoiler: the satanic zeppelin]] he realizes that he has stumbled into nothing less than [[spoiler: HellOnEarth.]]
** The final shot of the film: [[spoiler: the electrical systems of the city beginning to run amok as The Upload corrupts everything.]]
* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld: Taken to its nightmarish extent. In the MirrorUniverse in ''Parallel Monsters'' Alfonso goes outside to see [[spoiler:a satanic zeppelin with a huge, neon inverted cross broadcasting demonic chanting]].
* {{Supervillain}}: Dante nails the trope through-and-through: a down-on-his luck street magician finds a magic cloak that grants him real powers in exchange for regular meals of human flesh. Subverted in that he has no super hero arch rival. [[spoiler: Instead he is defeated by a mundane aspiring magician who happens to know one clever trick that [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Dante himself taught her]].]]
* TheDogBitesBack: A woman being filmed by a man for an amateur porn site in the wraparound story turns out to already be on it, due to him having bought some old footage from her ex. She draws a gun and forces him to strip, threatening to shoot him in the groin and implying via her dialogue that the exposure had a massive negative impact on her life.
* TwinSwitch: ''Parallel Monsters'' is this with a dark twist.
* TheUnreveal: When Kevin finally catches up to the ice cream van the only sign of the driver is [[spoiler: [[MindScrew a pair of severed hands duct-taped to the steering wheel.]]]]
* VaginaDentata: ''Parallel Monsters'' shows female and male varieties.
* WhamShot: It quickly becomes obvious to both Alfonso and the viewer that something is very off about his and Marta's MirrorUniverse counterparts. When he looks up at the night sky and sees [[spoiler: the satanic zeppelin]] he realizes that he has stumbled into nothing less than [[spoiler: HellOnEarth.]]
** The final shot of the film: [[spoiler: the electrical systems of the city beginning to run amok as The Upload corrupts everything.]]
* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld: Taken to its nightmarish extent. In the MirrorUniverse in ''Parallel Monsters'' Alfonso goes outside to see [[spoiler:a satanic zeppelin with a huge, neon inverted cross broadcasting demonic chanting]].
to:
* {{Squick}}: The other world in ''Parallel Monsters'' treats bloody dismemberment as foreplay. TheUnreveal: When Kevin finally catches up to the ice cream van, the only sign of the driver is [[spoiler: Parallel-Marta is even visibly a little turned on at pair of severed hands duct-taped to the thought her husband may have butchered one of her would-be lovers.steering wheel.]]
*{{Supervillain}}: Dante nails WhamShot: The final shot of the trope through-and-through: a down-on-his luck street magician finds a magic cloak that grants him real powers in exchange for regular meals of human flesh. Subverted in that he has no super hero arch rival. film: [[spoiler: Instead he is defeated by a mundane aspiring magician who happens the electrical systems of the city beginning to know one clever trick that [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Dante himself taught her]].run amok as The Upload corrupts everything.]]
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[[folder:Dante the Great]]
*TheDogBitesBack: A woman ActionGirl: Scarlett. She quickly gets the hang of the TeleportGun duel she finds herself in with [[spoiler: John]] and doesn't back down, despite, or perhaps because of, having seen what he's capable of.
* ArtifactOfDoom: The cloak, which houses, or may be an extension of, a hungry EldritchAbomination.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Scarlett's boyfriend, Clay.]]
**[[spoiler: John himself. It's hard to feel bad over his death when you consider that at this point, he was sacrificing people to his cloak, both for personal gain and just plain willy-nilly.]]
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: One of the magic props shown in Dante's studio is a bed of nails. It is later used to impale a SWAT team member.]]
* ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler: The rope trick John teaches Scarlett winds up beingfilmed what she uses to defeat him.]]
* ClickHello: [[spoiler: During the climax, John switches places with a SWAT team officer down to their CLOTHES, shooting the officer's partner in the back after the one he switched with is shot in his stead.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Clay, Scarlett's abusive boyfriend, [[spoiler:ends up having multiple bones broken bya man John's telekinesis before he finally kills him. Several of the SWAT officers in the climax suffer similar fates.]]
* DomesticAbuse: Clay, who is seen smacking Scarlett across the face in security footage. Too bad for him, his girlfriend is in the employ of a burgeoning SerialKiller with actual magic.
* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: When he discovers what he needs to do to fuel his cloak's powers, John is initially hesitant, but he soon becomes intoxicated with the things the cloak lets him do.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: It's implied that John genuinely cares for Scarlett, up until she turns him in to the police.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: John kills Scarlett's abusive boyfriend as punishment for said abuse, even commenting "What a dick."
* FauxAffablyEvil: John. He has stage presence and charisma when things are going right, but the instant the smallest thing escapes his control, he starts losing his shit. He even makes a series of {{pun}}s when using the cloak to [[spoiler: fight off a SWAT team.]]
* FromNobodyToNightmare: The title character. He starts out as an unemployed trailer park hick who constantly fumbles amateurporn site magic tricks to the amusement of his friends. All that changes when he finds a long lost cloak owned by Harry Houdini, imbued with frightening supernatural power.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Creator/HarryHoudini is said to have originally owned the cloak that empowers John. He got wise and chucked it.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Scarlett uses the rope trick that John himself taught her to feed him to the cloak.]]
* HopeSpot: Scarlett kills John and burns the cloak, only for it to [[ClingyMacGuffin appear in her house, unharmed, where it promptly seizes her.]]
* IronicEcho: Deliberately invoked by Scarlett at the climax of the segment.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: John again. Once he realizes what the cloak needs to fuel its powers, it doesn't take him long to start doing it as a routine chore.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Clay, Scarlett's abusive boyfriend, as well as John; Dante himself.]]
* LetsGetDangerous: For the near-entirety of the climactic battle between John, the SWAT team, and Scarlett, the film itself switches from the FoundFootage format to a traditional action scene, possibly as a means of preparing the viewers for just how badass the scene itself is.
* MeaningfulName: The protagonist is a redhead named Scarlett.
** Averted with Dante himself, which is just his StageName. His real name is John [=McMullen=].
* OhCrap: [[spoiler: Scarlett,]] when she is found by the cloak again.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: [[spoiler: John, whenever he's wearing the cloak.]]
* SanitySlippage: John's mother seems to display this in her final interview, where she says her son sent her a letter and she will be expecting him to visit soon... even though he's since died.
* {{Supervillain}}: John nails the trope through-and-through: a down-on-his luck amateur magician finds a magic cloak that grants him the ability to perform genuine magic in exchange for regular meals of human flesh. Subverted in that he has no superhero arch rival. Instead, he is defeated by a mundane aspiring magician who happens to know one clever trick that [[HoistByHisOwnPetard John himself taught her]].
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[[folder:Parallel Monsters]]
* AffablyEvil: The universe Alfonso visits might be inhabited by HornyDevils [[spoiler: with monstrous genitalia,]] who revel in gruesome rituals and films of human sacrifice, but other than that, they're really nice people who are just doing what's normal for them.
* DrivenToMadness: Whatever Parallel!Alfonso did to Marta, it apparently left both of them incurably insane.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The parallel Alfonso is apparently deeply disturbed by what happens during his off-screen encounter with Normal!Marta. [[spoiler: That doesn't stop him from trying to kill Normal!Alfonso. Also played straight with Parallel!Marta, who kills her husband because she thinks he hit her, which is apparently punishable by death in thewraparound story turns out parallel world.]]
* FanDisservice: [[spoiler: Parallel!Marta and her very prominent VaginaDentata.]]
* GameFace: When preparing toalready be on it, due to him having bought some old footage [[spoiler: attack with their genitalia]], the inhabitants of the parallel world [[GlowingEyesOfDoom radiate red light from her ex. She draws a gun their eyes and forces him to strip, threatening to shoot him in mouths]].
* GroinAttack: [[spoiler: Alfonso escapes from an attacking monster by skewering its demonic phallus with thegroin screwdriver he carries.]]
** [[spoiler: It's inverted later on when Parallel!Alfonso is shown being devoured alive by his wife's VaginaDentata.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: A recurring theme of the series, it reaches ludicrous extremes in this segment.
* KarmicDeath: Inverted: [[spoiler:Both versions of Alfonso end up hurting the other's version of Marta, but it's through mutual misunderstanding andimplying via her dialogue fear rather than genuine malice. Both of them end up being killed by their respective wives for things that the exposure had a their parallel double did.]]
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Whatever transpires between [[spoiler: Parallel!Alfonso and Normal!Marta]] leaves both of them drenched in blood from head to toe. Neither of them seems significantly physically impaired.
* ReligionOfEvil: The alternate world apparently holds Satanism as its dominant religion, and is policed by massivenegative impact blimps emblazoned with inverted crosses that broadcast ominous chanting. Meanwhile, the inhabitants watch and perform gruesome rituals in their homes as entertainment.
* SignatureStyle: Nacho Vigolondo once more indulges his fondness for the GlowingEyes and ThroatLight combination.
* {{Squick}}: The parallel world treats bloody dismemberment as foreplay. [[spoiler: Parallel!Marta is even visibly turned on at the thought of herlife.
husband butchering one of her would-be lovers.]]
* TwinSwitch:''Parallel Monsters'' The segment's plot is this this, with a dark twist.
*TheUnreveal: When Kevin finally catches up to the ice cream van the only sign of the driver is [[spoiler: [[MindScrew a pair of severed hands duct-taped to the steering wheel.]]]]
*VaginaDentata: ''Parallel Monsters'' shows Both female and male varieties.
varieties are displayed in the parallel world.
* WhamShot: It quickly becomes obvious to both Alfonso and the viewer that something is very off about his and Marta's MirrorUniverse counterparts. When he looks up at the night sky and sees [[spoiler: the sataniczeppelin]] zeppelin]], he realizes that he has stumbled into nothing less than [[spoiler: HellOnEarth.]]
** The final shot of the film: [[spoiler: the electrical systems of the city beginning to run amok as The Upload corrupts everything.]]
* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld: Taken to its nightmarish extent. In theMirrorUniverse in ''Parallel Monsters'' MirrorUniverse, Alfonso goes outside to see [[spoiler:a satanic zeppelin with a huge, neon inverted cross broadcasting demonic chanting]].chanting]].
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[[folder:Bonestorm]]
* ActionSurvivor: [[spoiler: Jason and Danny]].
* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: Taylor]] gets his arm torn off.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Taylor]] is hinted to be a sadist, pretending not to have caught the group's successful stunts on film and urging them to do more dangerous things in the hopes that they kill themselves so he can sell it as a snuff film. [[spoiler: He gets his arm torn off, is set on fire, and is eaten by the creature the cultists were summoning.]]
* BadassNormal: Teenaged punk skaters Danny and Jason are incredibly tenacious, tough, and resourceful in a fight, able to hold their own in a skate park brawl against a pair of unfriendly skaters [[spoiler:and eventually against a seemingly endless army of undead.]]
* ChekhovsGun: The segment features a literal one. Early on, Jason reveals that he carries a handgun, presumably for showing off or intimidation. [[spoiler:It appears again at the climax, allowing him to take down several of the cultists with ease.]]
** There's also the fireworks the skaters buy during their trip, which they use to blow up the skeletons.
* ContinuityNod: The cultists are revealed to sacrifice themselves to release a demon who rewards them by reanimating them into the undead. It's a sequence of events so similar to what happened in [[Film/VHS2 Safe Haven]], that it's difficult to imagine they aren't connected.
* EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep: Shaun introduces himself by his real name, but Jason and Danny refer to him as "Gas Money Kid", likely because they aren't that familiar with him. Same goes for "Camera Guy", who later reveals that his name is Taylor.
* EvilSoundsDeep: The cultists and their chanting.
* FlippingTheBird: One of the skeletons does this just before exploding from a firework.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the wake of the skate park brawl, Danny scoffs at Jason, saying that in a life-or-death fight, Jason would leave him to die. At the end, the skeletal cultists overwhelm him as he tells Jason to save himself, [[spoiler:prompting Jason to successfully rescue him and finish off the undead with illegal fireworks.]]
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The blood from Taylor's [[spoiler: severed arm]] catches fire. Cut to Danny and Jason continuing to fight for their lives while Taylor runs past in the background, screaming, flailing, and [[spoiler: on fire.]]
* IronicEcho: Danny mockingly insists that his friend Jason would abandon him in a moment if things got dangerous. [[spoiler: His friend comes through.]]
* JerkassWithAHeartOfGold: Jason and Danny fit this. Throughout the segment, they trespass on private property to get footage of their skateboarding stunts and constantly insult their cameraman Taylor (though to be fair, he ''is'' mostly recording them to see them fail or possibly die). On the other hand, they act more respectfully to the other skateboarders at the park, complimenting a younger skater's skills and apologizing to another pair of skaters after accidentally crashing into them, and they even share food and cigarettes with a homeless man. [[spoiler:Finally, by the end of the segment, [[BashBrothers both of them]] back each other up in the fight against the cult.]]
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Taylor the camera guy, who is easily the biggest {{Jerkass}} of the protagonists, gets his arm ripped off by a cultist before getting burned by the cultists' inflammable AlienBlood, then gets eaten by the creature they were summoning. Meanwhile, Jason and Danny, [[JerkassWithAHeartOfGold who have more redeeming qualities]], manage to escape with their lives.]]
* MadeOfPlasticine: The cultists die from one or two good whacks with a skateboard deck. And then they avert this trope by rising from the dead repeatedly [[RasputinianDeath until they are nothing but skeletons]].
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: At one point, Danny gets his face [[spoiler: ''set on fire.'']] After a splash of water, he's ready to keep fighting like nothing happened.
* OhCrap: Jason and Danny when [[spoiler: the demon roars from underground and all the cultists they've slain get back up.]]
* PetTheDog: The skaters normally have zero regard for others, but when a homeless man approaches them, they are happy to share their snacks and smokes with him, much to the chagrin of [[{{Jerkass}} Taylor]], who wants to see them fight him.
* PoliceAreUseless: The Tijuana police are called to the flood channel during the skaters' battle via helicopter. Rather than help the kids out, they just take one look at the situation and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere promptly fly off.]]
* ReligionOfEvil: Whatever the cultists believe in, it probably counts.
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*
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[[folder:Dante the Great]]
*
* ArtifactOfDoom: The cloak, which houses, or may be an extension of, a hungry EldritchAbomination.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Scarlett's boyfriend, Clay.]]
**[[spoiler: John himself. It's hard to feel bad over his death when you consider that at this point, he was sacrificing people to his cloak, both for personal gain and just plain willy-nilly.]]
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: One of the magic props shown in Dante's studio is a bed of nails. It is later used to impale a SWAT team member.]]
* ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler: The rope trick John teaches Scarlett winds up being
* ClickHello: [[spoiler: During the climax, John switches places with a SWAT team officer down to their CLOTHES, shooting the officer's partner in the back after the one he switched with is shot in his stead.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Clay, Scarlett's abusive boyfriend, [[spoiler:ends up having multiple bones broken by
* DomesticAbuse: Clay, who is seen smacking Scarlett across the face in security footage. Too bad for him, his girlfriend is in the employ of a burgeoning SerialKiller with actual magic.
* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: When he discovers what he needs to do to fuel his cloak's powers, John is initially hesitant, but he soon becomes intoxicated with the things the cloak lets him do.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: It's implied that John genuinely cares for Scarlett, up until she turns him in to the police.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: John kills Scarlett's abusive boyfriend as punishment for said abuse, even commenting "What a dick."
* FauxAffablyEvil: John. He has stage presence and charisma when things are going right, but the instant the smallest thing escapes his control, he starts losing his shit. He even makes a series of {{pun}}s when using the cloak to [[spoiler: fight off a SWAT team.]]
* FromNobodyToNightmare: The title character. He starts out as an unemployed trailer park hick who constantly fumbles amateur
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Creator/HarryHoudini is said to have originally owned the cloak that empowers John. He got wise and chucked it.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Scarlett uses the rope trick that John himself taught her to feed him to the cloak.]]
* HopeSpot: Scarlett kills John and burns the cloak, only for it to [[ClingyMacGuffin appear in her house, unharmed, where it promptly seizes her.]]
* IronicEcho: Deliberately invoked by Scarlett at the climax of the segment.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: John again. Once he realizes what the cloak needs to fuel its powers, it doesn't take him long to start doing it as a routine chore.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Clay, Scarlett's abusive boyfriend, as well as John; Dante himself.]]
* LetsGetDangerous: For the near-entirety of the climactic battle between John, the SWAT team, and Scarlett, the film itself switches from the FoundFootage format to a traditional action scene, possibly as a means of preparing the viewers for just how badass the scene itself is.
* MeaningfulName: The protagonist is a redhead named Scarlett.
** Averted with Dante himself, which is just his StageName. His real name is John [=McMullen=].
* OhCrap: [[spoiler: Scarlett,]] when she is found by the cloak again.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: [[spoiler: John, whenever he's wearing the cloak.]]
* SanitySlippage: John's mother seems to display this in her final interview, where she says her son sent her a letter and she will be expecting him to visit soon... even though he's since died.
* {{Supervillain}}: John nails the trope through-and-through: a down-on-his luck amateur magician finds a magic cloak that grants him the ability to perform genuine magic in exchange for regular meals of human flesh. Subverted in that he has no superhero arch rival. Instead, he is defeated by a mundane aspiring magician who happens to know one clever trick that [[HoistByHisOwnPetard John himself taught her]].
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[[folder:Parallel Monsters]]
* AffablyEvil: The universe Alfonso visits might be inhabited by HornyDevils [[spoiler: with monstrous genitalia,]] who revel in gruesome rituals and films of human sacrifice, but other than that, they're really nice people who are just doing what's normal for them.
* DrivenToMadness: Whatever Parallel!Alfonso did to Marta, it apparently left both of them incurably insane.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The parallel Alfonso is apparently deeply disturbed by what happens during his off-screen encounter with Normal!Marta. [[spoiler: That doesn't stop him from trying to kill Normal!Alfonso. Also played straight with Parallel!Marta, who kills her husband because she thinks he hit her, which is apparently punishable by death in the
* FanDisservice: [[spoiler: Parallel!Marta and her very prominent VaginaDentata.]]
* GameFace: When preparing to
* GroinAttack: [[spoiler: Alfonso escapes from an attacking monster by skewering its demonic phallus with the
** [[spoiler: It's inverted later on when Parallel!Alfonso is shown being devoured alive by his wife's VaginaDentata.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: A recurring theme of the series, it reaches ludicrous extremes in this segment.
* KarmicDeath: Inverted: [[spoiler:Both versions of Alfonso end up hurting the other's version of Marta, but it's through mutual misunderstanding and
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Whatever transpires between [[spoiler: Parallel!Alfonso and Normal!Marta]] leaves both of them drenched in blood from head to toe. Neither of them seems significantly physically impaired.
* ReligionOfEvil: The alternate world apparently holds Satanism as its dominant religion, and is policed by massive
* SignatureStyle: Nacho Vigolondo once more indulges his fondness for the GlowingEyes and ThroatLight combination.
* {{Squick}}: The parallel world treats bloody dismemberment as foreplay. [[spoiler: Parallel!Marta is even visibly turned on at the thought of her
* TwinSwitch:
*
*
* WhamShot: It quickly becomes obvious to both Alfonso and the viewer that something is very off about his and Marta's MirrorUniverse counterparts. When he looks up at the night sky and sees [[spoiler: the satanic
** The final shot of the film: [[spoiler: the electrical systems of the city beginning to run amok as The Upload corrupts everything.
* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld: Taken to its nightmarish extent. In the
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bonestorm]]
* ActionSurvivor: [[spoiler: Jason and Danny]].
* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: Taylor]] gets his arm torn off.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Taylor]] is hinted to be a sadist, pretending not to have caught the group's successful stunts on film and urging them to do more dangerous things in the hopes that they kill themselves so he can sell it as a snuff film. [[spoiler: He gets his arm torn off, is set on fire, and is eaten by the creature the cultists were summoning.]]
* BadassNormal: Teenaged punk skaters Danny and Jason are incredibly tenacious, tough, and resourceful in a fight, able to hold their own in a skate park brawl against a pair of unfriendly skaters [[spoiler:and eventually against a seemingly endless army of undead.]]
* ChekhovsGun: The segment features a literal one. Early on, Jason reveals that he carries a handgun, presumably for showing off or intimidation. [[spoiler:It appears again at the climax, allowing him to take down several of the cultists with ease.]]
** There's also the fireworks the skaters buy during their trip, which they use to blow up the skeletons.
* ContinuityNod: The cultists are revealed to sacrifice themselves to release a demon who rewards them by reanimating them into the undead. It's a sequence of events so similar to what happened in [[Film/VHS2 Safe Haven]], that it's difficult to imagine they aren't connected.
* EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep: Shaun introduces himself by his real name, but Jason and Danny refer to him as "Gas Money Kid", likely because they aren't that familiar with him. Same goes for "Camera Guy", who later reveals that his name is Taylor.
* EvilSoundsDeep: The cultists and their chanting.
* FlippingTheBird: One of the skeletons does this just before exploding from a firework.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the wake of the skate park brawl, Danny scoffs at Jason, saying that in a life-or-death fight, Jason would leave him to die. At the end, the skeletal cultists overwhelm him as he tells Jason to save himself, [[spoiler:prompting Jason to successfully rescue him and finish off the undead with illegal fireworks.]]
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The blood from Taylor's [[spoiler: severed arm]] catches fire. Cut to Danny and Jason continuing to fight for their lives while Taylor runs past in the background, screaming, flailing, and [[spoiler: on fire.]]
* IronicEcho: Danny mockingly insists that his friend Jason would abandon him in a moment if things got dangerous. [[spoiler: His friend comes through.]]
* JerkassWithAHeartOfGold: Jason and Danny fit this. Throughout the segment, they trespass on private property to get footage of their skateboarding stunts and constantly insult their cameraman Taylor (though to be fair, he ''is'' mostly recording them to see them fail or possibly die). On the other hand, they act more respectfully to the other skateboarders at the park, complimenting a younger skater's skills and apologizing to another pair of skaters after accidentally crashing into them, and they even share food and cigarettes with a homeless man. [[spoiler:Finally, by the end of the segment, [[BashBrothers both of them]] back each other up in the fight against the cult.]]
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Taylor the camera guy, who is easily the biggest {{Jerkass}} of the protagonists, gets his arm ripped off by a cultist before getting burned by the cultists' inflammable AlienBlood, then gets eaten by the creature they were summoning. Meanwhile, Jason and Danny, [[JerkassWithAHeartOfGold who have more redeeming qualities]], manage to escape with their lives.]]
* MadeOfPlasticine: The cultists die from one or two good whacks with a skateboard deck. And then they avert this trope by rising from the dead repeatedly [[RasputinianDeath until they are nothing but skeletons]].
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: At one point, Danny gets his face [[spoiler: ''set on fire.'']] After a splash of water, he's ready to keep fighting like nothing happened.
* OhCrap: Jason and Danny when [[spoiler: the demon roars from underground and all the cultists they've slain get back up.]]
* PetTheDog: The skaters normally have zero regard for others, but when a homeless man approaches them, they are happy to share their snacks and smokes with him, much to the chagrin of [[{{Jerkass}} Taylor]], who wants to see them fight him.
* PoliceAreUseless: The Tijuana police are called to the flood channel during the skaters' battle via helicopter. Rather than help the kids out, they just take one look at the situation and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere promptly fly off.]]
* ReligionOfEvil: Whatever the cultists believe in, it probably counts.
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* DamselInDistress: Iris disappears, her frantic, screaming image on Kevin's phone giving him hope that she is still alive.
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* DistressedDamsel: Iris disappears, her frantic, screaming image on Kevin's phone giving him hope that she is still alive.
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* GameFace: When preparing to [[spoiler: attack with their genitalia]] the titular beings of ''Parallel Monsters'' [[GlowingEyesOfDoom radiate red light from their eyes and mouths.]]
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* GameFace: When preparing to [[spoiler: attack with their genitalia]] the titular beings of ''Parallel Monsters'' [[GlowingEyesOfDoom radiate red light from their eyes and mouths.]]mouths]].
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* IHaveYourWife: At the film's climax [[spoiler: it's fairly obvious that Iris on the TV screen is under the control of someone or something else and Kevin carries out "her" orders in order to stop her hurting herself. It turns out she was DeadAllAlong.]]
to:
* IHaveYourWife: At the film's climax [[spoiler: it's fairly obvious that Iris on the TV screen is under the control of someone or something else and Kevin carries out "her" orders in order to stop her hurting herself. It turns out she was DeadAllAlong.]]DeadAllAlong]].
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* MadeOfPlasticine: The Skull Faces die from one or two good whacks with a skateboard deck. [[spoiler: And then avert this trope, by rising from the dead repeatedly [[RasputinianDeath until they are nothing but skeletons.]]]]
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* MadeOfPlasticine: The Skull Faces die from one or two good whacks with a skateboard deck. [[spoiler: And then avert this trope, by rising from the dead repeatedly [[RasputinianDeath until they are nothing but skeletons.]]]]skeletons]].]]
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* NothingIsScarier: An arm here and a leg there are all that is ever seen of the [[BigBad Big Bads]] of ''Dante The Great'' and ''Bonestorm.'' [[spoiler: The driver of the ice cream van]] is never seen at all.
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* NothingIsScarier: An arm here and a leg there are all that is ever seen of the [[BigBad Big Bads]] {{Big Bad}}s of ''Dante The Great'' and ''Bonestorm.'' [[spoiler: The driver of the ice cream van]] is never seen at all.
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* PetTheDog: The teens in ''Bonestorm'' normally have zero regard for others, but when a homeless man approaches them they are happy to share their snacks and smokes with him, much to the chagrin of [[JerkAss Taylor,]] who wants to see them fight him.
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* PetTheDog: The teens in ''Bonestorm'' normally have zero regard for others, but when a homeless man approaches them they are happy to share their snacks and smokes with him, much to the chagrin of [[JerkAss Taylor,]] [[{{Jerkass}} Taylor]], who wants to see them fight him.
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* {{Supervillain}}: Dante nails the trope through-and-through: a down-on-his luck street magician finds a magic cloak that grants him real powers in exchange for regular meals of human flesh. Subverted in that he has no super hero arch rival. [[spoiler: Instead he is defeated by a mundane aspiring magician who happens to know one clever trick that [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Dante himself taught her.]]]]
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* {{Supervillain}}: Dante nails the trope through-and-through: a down-on-his luck street magician finds a magic cloak that grants him real powers in exchange for regular meals of human flesh. Subverted in that he has no super hero arch rival. [[spoiler: Instead he is defeated by a mundane aspiring magician who happens to know one clever trick that [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Dante himself taught her.]]]]her]].]]
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''V/H/S/ Viral'' is a 2014 FoundFootage {{anthology}} film featuring segments directed by Marcel Sarmiento, Gregg Bishop, Nacho Vigolando, Creator/JustinBenson, and Creator/AaronMoorhead. It follows 2012's {{Film/VHS}} ''[[{{Film/VHS}} V/H/S]]'' and 2013's [[Film/VHS2 V/H/S/2]]. It continues the series' theme of videos of violent supernatural events that subsequently have bizarre effects on those who view them, except now the films are being taken to a [[TheVirus broader audience.]]
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* CrapsackWorld: Adding to the tally of the previous installments, we now have an EldritchAbomination disguised as an article of clothing, a zombie cult and the maneating demon who leads them, and the videos of all these things might just have finally succeeded in bringing about [[spoiler: TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.]] Yet somehow there still manages to be a parallel world that's [[UpToEleven even more of a crapsack than this one.]]
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* CrapsackWorld: Adding to the tally of the previous installments, we now have an EldritchAbomination disguised as an article of clothing, a zombie cult and the maneating demon who leads them, and the videos of all these things might just have finally succeeded in bringing about [[spoiler: TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.]] Yet somehow there still manages to be a parallel world that's [[UpToEleven even more of a crapsack than this one.]]
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''V/H/S/ Viral'' is a 2014 FoundFootage {{anthology}} film featuring segments directed by Marcel Sarmiento, Gregg Bishop, Nacho Vigolando, Creator/JustinBenson, and Creator/AaronMoorehead.Creator/AaronMoorhead. It follows 2012's {{Film/VHS}} and 2013's [[Film/VHS2 V/H/S/2]]. It continues the series' theme of videos of violent supernatural events that subsequently have bizarre effects on those who view them, except now the films are being taken to a [[TheVirus broader audience.]]
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''V/H/S/ Viral'' is a 2014 FoundFootage {{anthology}} film featuring segments directed by Marcel Sarmiento, Gregg Bishop, Nacho Vigolando, Justin Benson, and Aaron Scott Moorehead. It follows 2012's {{Film/VHS}} and 2013's [[Film/VHS2 V/H/S/2]]. It continues the series' theme of videos of violent supernatural events that subsequently have bizarre effects on those who view them, except now the films are being taken to a [[TheVirus broader audience.]]
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''V/H/S/ Viral'' is a 2014 FoundFootage {{anthology}} film featuring segments directed by Marcel Sarmiento, Gregg Bishop, Nacho Vigolando, Justin Benson, Creator/JustinBenson, and Aaron Scott Moorehead.Creator/AaronMoorehead. It follows 2012's {{Film/VHS}} and 2013's [[Film/VHS2 V/H/S/2]]. It continues the series' theme of videos of violent supernatural events that subsequently have bizarre effects on those who view them, except now the films are being taken to a [[TheVirus broader audience.]]
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* StuffedIntoTheFridge: [[spoiler: Kevin spends the entire wraparound story chasing the vehicle that took Iris in hopes of saving her, only to find her dead at the end with a smartphone shoved in her mouth.]]
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* OddballInTheSeries: ''Film/{{VHS}}'' and ''Film/VHS2'' varied up their entries' sub-genres. Viral instead has three demonic/satanic-themed entries, and two of them being almost primarily action films. See also ReimaginingTheArtifact below.
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* OddballInTheSeries: ''Film/{{VHS}}'' and ''Film/VHS2'' varied up their entries' sub-genres. Viral ''Viral'' instead has three demonic/satanic-themed entries, and two of them being almost primarily action films. See also ReimaginingTheArtifact below.
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* OddballInTheSeries: Film/{{VHS}} ''Film/{{VHS}}'' and Film/VHS2 ''Film/VHS2'' varied up their entries' sub-genres. Viral instead has three demonic/satanic-themed entries, and two of them being almost primarily action films. See also ReimaginingTheArtifact below.
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* OddballInTheSeries: Film/VHS Film/{{VHS}} and Film/VHS2 varied up their entries' sub-genres. Viral instead has three demonic/satanic-themed entries, and two of them being almost primarily action films. See also ReimaginingTheArtifact below.
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* OddballInTheSeries: Film/V/H/S and Film/V/H/S/2 varied up their entries' sub-genres. Viral instead has three demonic/satanic-themed entries, and two of them being almost primarily action films. See also ReimaginingTheArtifact below.
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* OddballInTheSeries: Film/V/H/S Film/VHS and Film/V/H/S/2 Film/VHS2 varied up their entries' sub-genres. Viral instead has three demonic/satanic-themed entries, and two of them being almost primarily action films. See also ReimaginingTheArtifact below.
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* OddballInTheSeries: V/H/S Film/V/H/S and V/H/S 2 Film/V/H/S/2 varied up their entries' sub-genres. Viral instead has three demonic/satanic-themed entries, and two of them being almost primarily action films. See also ReimaginingTheArtifact below.
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** [[spoiler: Camera Guy]] in ''Bonestorm'' gets his arm torn off.
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** [[spoiler: Camera Guy]] Taylor]] in ''Bonestorm'' gets his arm torn off.
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** ''Bonestorm's'' [[spoiler: Camera Guy]] seems to be a sadist, pretending not to have caught the group's successful stunts on film and urging them to do more dangerous things. [[spoiler: He's the first to die.]]
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** ''Bonestorm's'' [[spoiler: Camera Guy]] [[spoiler:Taylor]] seems to be a sadist, pretending not to have caught the group's successful stunts on film and urging them to do more dangerous things. [[spoiler: He's the first to die.]]
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** [[spoiler: It's hard to feel bad over Dante's death when you consider that by this stage he was sacrificing people to use his cloak both for personal gain and willy nilly.]]
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The blood from Camera Guy's [[spoiler: severed arm]] catches fire. Cut to Danny and Jason continuing to fight for their lives while Camera Guy runs past in the background, screaming, flailing and [[spoiler: on fire.]]
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The blood from Camera Guy's Taylor's [[spoiler: severed arm]] catches fire. Cut to Danny and Jason continuing to fight for their lives while Camera Guy Taylor runs past in the background, screaming, flailing and [[spoiler: on fire.]]
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* JerkassWithAHeartOfGold: Jason and Danny from ''Bonestorm'' fit this. Throughout the segment, they trespass on private property to get footage of their skateboarding stunts and constantly insult Camera Guy, who to be fair is mostly recording them to see them fail. On the other hand, they act more respectfully to the other skateboarders at the park, complimenting a younger skater's skills and apologizing to another pair of skaters after accidentally crashing into them, and also help out a hobo. [[spoiler:Finally, by the end of the segment, [[BashBrothers both of them]] back each other up in the fight against the cult.]]
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* JerkassWithAHeartOfGold: Jason and Danny from ''Bonestorm'' fit this. Throughout the segment, they trespass on private property to get footage of their skateboarding stunts and constantly insult Camera Guy, Taylor, who to be fair is mostly recording them to see them fail. On the other hand, they act more respectfully to the other skateboarders at the park, complimenting a younger skater's skills and apologizing to another pair of skaters after accidentally crashing into them, and also help out a hobo. [[spoiler:Finally, by the end of the segment, [[BashBrothers both of them]] back each other up in the fight against the cult.]]
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** ''Bonestorm'': [[spoiler:The Camera Guy, who is easily the biggest {{Jerkass}} of the protagonists, gets his arm ripped off by a cultist before getting burned to death by the cultists' inflammable AlienBlood. Meanwhile, Jason and Danny, [[JerkassWithAHeartOfGold who have more redeeming qualities]], manage to escape with their lives.]]
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** ''Bonestorm'': [[spoiler:The Camera Guy, [[spoiler:Taylor the camera guy, who is easily the biggest {{Jerkass}} of the protagonists, gets his arm ripped off by a cultist before getting burned to death by the cultists' inflammable AlienBlood. Meanwhile, Jason and Danny, [[JerkassWithAHeartOfGold who have more redeeming qualities]], manage to escape with their lives.]]
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* PetTheDog: The teens in ''Bonestorm'' normally have zero regard for others, but when a homeless man approaches them they are happy to share their snacks and smokes with him, much to the chagrin of [[JerkAss Camera Guy,]] who wants to see them fight him.
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* PetTheDog: The teens in ''Bonestorm'' normally have zero regard for others, but when a homeless man approaches them they are happy to share their snacks and smokes with him, much to the chagrin of [[JerkAss Camera Guy,]] Taylor,]] who wants to see them fight him.
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* JerkassWithAHeartOfGold: Jason and Danny from ''Bonestorm'' fit this. Throughout the segment, they trespass on private property to get footage of their skateboarding stunts and constantly insult Camera Guy, who to be fair is mostly recording them to see them fail. On the other hand, they act more respectfully to the other skateboarders at the park, complimenting a younger skater's skills and apologizing to another pair of skaters after accidentally crashing into them. [[spoiler:They also back each other up in the fight against the cult.]]
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* JerkassWithAHeartOfGold: Jason and Danny from ''Bonestorm'' fit this. Throughout the segment, they trespass on private property to get footage of their skateboarding stunts and constantly insult Camera Guy, who to be fair is mostly recording them to see them fail. On the other hand, they act more respectfully to the other skateboarders at the park, complimenting a younger skater's skills and apologizing to another pair of skaters after accidentally crashing into them. [[spoiler:They them, and also help out a hobo. [[spoiler:Finally, by the end of the segment, [[BashBrothers both of them]] back each other up in the fight against the cult.]]
