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3(If you're looking for information on the VHS video format, try [[Platform/{{VCR}} here]].)
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5''V/H/S'' is a 2012 FoundFootage {{anthology}} film directed by Creator/AdamWingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn [=McQuaid=], Joe Swanberg, and Radio Silence.
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7A group of hoodlums are hired by an unknown third party to rob a desolate house and acquire a rare VHS tape. Upon arriving, they discover the dead body of the house's owner and stacks of videotapes. As they search for the right one, they are treated to a seemingly endless number of horrifying videos, each stranger than the last.
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9* ''Tape 56'': The frame story. The criminals investigate the house to find the tape they're after, but things quickly grow more intense throughout the night.
10* ''Amateur Night'': Shane, Patrick, and Clint are three college guys planning to go out for a night on the town. With the help of some glasses concealing a camera, the guys plan videotaping their sexual encounters and posting it online as an amateur porn video. The trio end up getting more than they bargained for when they pick up Lily, a strange woman who seems to be oddly attached to Clint.
11* ''Second Honeymoon'': Married couple Sam and Stephanie go on a road trip to Arizona for their honeymoon, filming and documenting nearly everything along the way. Later that night, Sam is asked by a strange and awkward woman to give her a ride somewhere the next day, though he turns her down. While the couple sleep, they are unknowingly stalked by the mysterious woman.
12* ''Tuesday the 17th'': Wendy, Joey, Samantha, and Spider are a group of twenty-somethings who travel to a nearby forest, using a camera to film their shenanigans. Suddenly, the group are stalked and killed one by one by a murderous entity covered in tracking errors that can only be viewed via camera. Wendy also seems to have some connection to the entity, as well as ulterior motives for her so-called friends.
13* ''The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily When She Was Younger'': In a segment told entirely through video chats, Emily, talking to her long-distance boyfriend James, believes that she is being plagued by paranormal phenomena, reminding her of a strange accident that occurred in her youth. While she aims to figure out just what the source of the apparent hauntings is, the truth turns out to be much stranger.
14* ''10/31/98'': On Halloween 1998, Tyler, dressed as a nanny cam, and his friends Chad, Matt, and Paul, head out to a Halloween party at a friend's house. When they arrive at the house hosting it, they discover that it is abandoned. As they explore the house, ghostly activity begins occurring. At first, the guys think that everything is part of an authentic haunted house attraction, but the scares soon become all too real... especially once they reach the attic.
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16Followed by
17* ''Film/VHS2'' (2013) The first sequel premiering at the Sundance Film Festival. It features shorts from Gareth Evans & Timo Tjahjanto, Eduardo Sanchez & Gregg Hale, Jason Eisener, Adam Wingard, and Simon Barrett.
18* ''Film/VHSViral'' (2014)
19* ''[[Film/Siren2016 Siren]]'' (2016): A feature length film based on the concept introduced in "Amateur Night" with Hannah Fierman reprising her role as [[ADayInTheLimelight Lily]].
20* ''V/H/S: Video Horror Shorts'' (2018): A series of shorts released on Snapchat.
21* ''Film/VHS94'' (2021): Completed principal photography during the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic and was released through the streaming service Shudder.
22* ''Film/VHS99'' (2022): Debuted on Shudder.
23* ''[[Film/KidsVsAliens Kids vs. Aliens]]'' (2023): A spinoff based on [=V/H/S/2's=] "Slumber Party Alien Abduction" segment.
24* ''[[Film/{{VHS85}} V/H/S/85]]'' (2023)
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26!!'''This movie provides examples of the following:'''
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31* ArcVillain:
32** Amateur Night: [[spoiler:[[HotAsHell Lily]]]].
33** Second Honeymood: [[spoiler:[[PsychoLesbian Stephanie and her Girlfriend]]]].
34** Tuesday the 17th: The Glitch
35** The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily When She Was Younger: [[spoiler:[[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong The Aliens]], with [[BitchInSheepsClothing James]] as TheDragon]].
36** 10/31/98: [[spoiler:[[DemonicPossession The demon possessing The Girl]]]]
37* ApocalypticLog: ''Every single'' segment, with the exception of [[spoiler:"The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily When She Was Younger", in which nobody dies]].
38* CameraAbuse: Every story ends with the camera operator murdered, and in a few the camera definitely gets destroyed, leading one to wonder how the old man got the tapes.
39* CosmicHorrorStory: There's certainly implications of this trope at work in most of the stories, most noticeably in "10/31/98" and "Tape 56".
40* CrapsackWorld: If indeed all the tapes, including the ones from the sequel(s?) take place in the same world then everybody is screwed. You have malevolent [[spoiler:aliens]], ghosts, monster/ghost/demons that look like digital glitches, succubi, an insane cult that either [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan brought a rampaging demon into the world]] or [[FalseInnocenceTrick failed]] to [[HollywoodExorcism exorcise]] it, and what looks like a ZombieApocalypse, an [[EvilInc evil corporation]] (or at least [[NoOSHACompliance a neglectful one]]), and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking psycho lesbians.]]
41** ''[[Film/Siren2016 Siren]]'' takes this further. There's a SinisterMinister running a hedonistic business using demons that killed those who summoned them but failed to control them. There are enough demons running loose due to screwed-up summoning that ''someone can make a living off it''.
42* DeliberateVHSQuality: Naturally, the entire film looks like it's on VHS out of necessity.
43* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Happens quite a bit, even with the short running time with each story.
44* DownerEnding: Every single segment.
45* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: This is the only main film in the V/H/S franchise that doesn’t end with the conclusion of the frame narrative, instead ending on "10/31/98".
46* FanDisservice: Bare breasts, buttocks, and male and female genitalia. All featured during disturbing pseudo-rape sequences or murders.
47* TheForeignSubtitle:
48** Germany: ''V/H/S: A Murderous Collection''
49** Japan: ''V/H/S: Syndrome''
50** Peru: ''V/H/S: The Chronicles of Fear''
51* {{Foreshadowing}}: A lot of the vandalism committed by the gang in the vacant house at the film's beginning is similar to how the ''haunted'' house gets trashed as the "10/31/98" party-goers are trying to escape.
52* FoundFootageFilms: An anthology of such.
53* HumanoidAbomination: Every supernatural foe encountered fits this trope, but Lily and the Glitch stand out in terms of weirdness.
54* InterfaceScrew: Strongest in "Tuesday the 17th" as the killer's presence always makes the picture begin to break up, but ultimately used in all of them since non-professional footage almost always includes lag, freezing, and pixelization. Noticeable as well in "The Sick Thing that Happened to Emily When She Was Younger" as they're using video chat, which is notorious for "cubing out". So naturally, it happens to Emily's image a couple of times. As one reviewer pointed out, the directors used this to their advantage by timing (probable) cuts with when the cassettes glitch, making it far more seamless than it otherwise would be.
55* MacGuffinTitle: The framing device is based on finding a certain VHS tape.
56* AManIsAlwaysEager: {{Defied|Trope}} like hell by both Clint in "Amateur Night" and Joey in "Tuesday the 17th". Both are put-off by the circumstances, Clint's [[spoiler:broken arm and recently-murdered friends]] and Joey [[spoiler:being told a ''very'' flimsy excuse about the absence of their friends]] before being propositioned.
57* NothingIsScarier: Invoked here and there, but really, much of what happens has no explanation, or very sparse.
58* ShownTheirWork: Whether by accident or design, any time the video-cameras pass over a TV-screen, the screens flicker, which was common in the old [=CRTs=] shown in the movie.
59* SnuffFilm: [[spoiler:''All of them'', except [[AvertedTrope "The Sick Thing that Happened to Emily When She Was Younger"]], in which nobody dies.]]
60* StylisticSuck: It varies, but is most prominent during the wraparound segment.
61* TwistedAnkle: In a surprising [[{{Pun}} "twist"]], it happens twice to ''male'' horror movie protagonists. Both [[spoiler:Clint in "Amateur Night" and Gary in "Tape 56"]] took a tumble down the stairs running away from the villain in their respective segments, although one of them wound up with a broken arm instead.
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64[[folder:"Tape 56"]]
65* AssholeVictim: While some of the characters in the vignettes fit, the ones here take the cake. They're a bunch of thugs who spend their time vandalizing houses and forcibly pulling up girls' tops in order to film them and sell the footage to a "reality porn" site.
66* BackFromTheDead: The dead man found by the group, though we don't learn how.
67* DemonicPossession: Possibly. [[spoiler:The seemingly dead old man, specifically.]]
68* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Every single member of the group ends up dead at the hands of the "dead" man. That said, given that they're textbook {{Asshole Victim}}s, it's hard to feel much sympathy for them.]]
69* DullSurprise: When Gary finds [[spoiler:the bodies of his friends]], the appropriate reaction ''probably'' shouldn't be to laughingly say "Oh, fuck".
70* DwindlingParty: The hooligans go missing one by one.
71* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Barely even a minute into the film, the criminals sexually assault a woman in a parking lot while filming the attack, in broad daylight.
72* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:The old man constantly disappears from his seat, only to show up in the same spot after disposing of the body of whoever was left alone with him]].
73* {{Hypocrite}}: The vandals all laugh and celebrate as they trash some unsuspecting person's house, only to bitch about it when one of their own number smashes the TV set ''they'' happen to be watching.
74%%zce* {{Jerkass}}: Everyone in the segment.
75* JitterCam: Throughout, just like every other segment.
76* LetsSplitUpGang: While it's mostly averted, the protagonists here fall into this, with predictable results.
77* NothingIsScarier: The thugs aren't sure what they're looking for, or whose house this is. It's implied they don't even know who hired them. And we have no idea how or why [[spoiler:the dead old man comes BackFromTheDead]].
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80[[folder:"Amateur Night"]]
81* AbhorrentAdmirer: Lily is fairly cute, if slightly creepy. [[spoiler:When she transforms, not so much.]]
82* ArcWords: "I like you." Made all the more meaningful by ''[[Film/Siren2016 Siren]]'' and its revelation that [[spoiler:Lily's species mates for life]].
83* BodyHorror: Lily starts out with scales on her feet, which [[NotDistractedByTheSexy only Clint notices]], and as things get worse, she develops a maw-like crease down her face. [[spoiler:At the end, she goes outright OneWingedAngel.]]
84** Lily's crease is a lot more natural looking in ''[[Film/Siren2016 Siren]]''.
85* BystanderSyndrome: The hotel clerks don't let in a man [[spoiler:with an ''obviously'' broken arm]], condemning him to his fate.
86* CameraAbuse: The last shot suggests that Clint's camera glasses fall off and hit the ground [[spoiler:after Lily swoops down and carries him off]].
87* CuteMonsterGirl: [[spoiler:Lily. At least, at first.]]
88* ADogNamedDog: ''[[Film/Siren2016 Siren]]'', reveals Lily is a "Lilith". True to the original filmmakers' intent, despite many viewers' assumptions, she never was intended to be either a succubus or anything from actual mythology.
89* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Clint is snatched away by Lily after he witnesses the gruesome demise of his friends.]]
90* EvenEvilHasStandards: A minor one. Shane wasn't outright evil, but his intentions for the night certainly were less than honorable, since his plan was to film the sexual intercourse without the girls' knowledge. But once Lisa falls unconscious in a drunken stupor, he stops his attempts with her. The guys may be voyeurs, but they draw the line at rape.
91* FanDisservice: We get to see Lily, fully nude, going down on Clint... [[spoiler:''after'' having turned into a monster, and covered in the blood of his friends. What's more, she's actually quite hurt that he's terrified rather than aroused.]]
92* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:The last we see of Clint, the poor guy's being carried off somewhere by Lily, screaming the entire time.]]
93* FreezeFrameBonus:
94** Right as Clint approaches Lily and Shane to talk Shane out of having sex with her, [[spoiler:there are two long bruises on either side of her spine, foreshadowing her wings emerging at the end to carry Clint off]].
95** There are also a number of ''very'' brief glimpses of her following the trio into the club, then eying Clint from afar before she approaches him.
96** After they arrive at the hotel room, it's shown twice that [[spoiler:her tongue is ''black'', once when she licks Clint's cheek, and the second when she roars at Patrick's attempt to interrupt her]].
97* GroinAttack: A ''very'' horrifying version when [[spoiler:Lily rips out '''all''' of Patrick's tackle]]. Thankfully, the guy was dead by this point.
98* HotAsHell: [[spoiler:Lily is a demonic creature who kills the men she has sex with.]]
99* {{Jerkass}}: Clint, considering that while he was [[SpyCam in on]] Patrick and Shane's little sexcapade, he [[TheLoinsSleepTonight wasn't]] ''[[AManIsAlwaysEager that]]'' desperate.
100* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Shane and Patrick get killed by Lily, while Clint is carried away by her. It's vague what happens to him afterward, due to her apparent interest in him combined with his rejection of her.]]
101* TheLoinsSleepTonight: A completely justified version, since [[spoiler:Clint's left arm ''just'' suffered a compound fracture while trying to flee from Lily, who tries to initiate a blowjob while coated in the blood of his friends]]. [[spoiler:To make no mention of those rows of sharp teeth that could [[GroinAttack snip his member in a blink]], among other [[BodyHorror body horrors]].]]
102* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: Lily pops up frequently before she formally introduces herself.
103* MeaningfulName: Lily has a name that sounds similar to, and is sometimes used as a diminutive form of, Lilith, [[spoiler:which happens to be the name of a mythological succubus]].
104* MuggingTheMonster: Well, more like [[spoiler:''raping'' the monster, as Patrick is bitten when he tries to initiate a threesome with Lily and Shane. This is pretty much when everybody begins to understand that Lily isn't just drunk or high, and is what sparks her complete transformation into... whatever she is.]]
105* ObliviouslyEvil: [[spoiler:Lily seems to be killing as a biological urge, not out of malice. It's even shown that she fancied Clint, and was dejected when he said no to her advances.]]
106* OnlySaneMan: Clint is the only one who notices something's... off with Lily. Quite ironic given that he's ''also'' the one she's most interested in.
107* RedRightHand: [[spoiler:Lily's creased forehead and deformed feet hint at her true form.]]
108* SinisterSilhouettes: After Lily kills Shane, Patrick and Clint retreat to the bathroom, but realize they can't stay there. They emerge into the darkened room to see a shadowed Lily standing in an odd position.
109* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Lisa's fate. It is likely that she survived [[spoiler:since it seems that Lily is a succubus-like creature who only shows interest in men, plus the timeline of events doesn't really leave any space for Lily to kill Lisa]], but we have no visual confirmation.
110* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The first thing [[spoiler:Lily]] does before she [[spoiler:goes on a rampage and abducts Clint to do who knows what to him]]? Sit in a corner and ''cry'' because he's not attracted to her. You almost forget that she's [[spoiler: a monster]], and even Clint apologizes... at least until her sobs turn into [[spoiler:demonic growls]]...
111* {{Yandere}}: ''[[Film/Siren2016 Siren]]'' reveals [[spoiler: Lily to be this - she isn't a succubus, doesn't kill through sex, and really doesn't appreciate people trying to kill her mate, and she would've killed the protagonist's wife if he hadn't gone to live with her.]]
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115* DisproportionateRetribution: While Sam is a bit of a pushy jerk, nothing ever indicated that he was abusive towards his wife, [[spoiler:which makes his murder rather excessive]]. She could have just asked for a divorce.
116* DomesticAbuse: Sam isn't the best of husbands to Stephanie. He pressures her to let him film her in a state of undress and complaining excessively when she refuses, he's possibly lying to her about who was at the door, he blames her when the money in his wallet goes missing, and he's generally passive-aggressive toward her. This works against him when [[spoiler:Stephanie decides to help her lesbian lover murder him]].
117* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Sam is murdered by the mysterious stalker, followed by the revelation that the stalker is Stephanie's secret lover (and also a woman) and that they'd both conspired to kill him.]]
118* FalseInnocenceTrick: Alluded to. See {{Foreshadowing}}.
119* FanDisservice: One of the last shots is Stephanie, in her bra, [[spoiler:making out with her PsychoLesbian lover... while there is blood all over the latter's hands. ''Sam's'' blood.]]
120* {{Foreshadowing}}: Stephanie and Sam use an electronic fortune-telling machine, and by the end of the segment, both of their fortunes come true in a twisted way. [[spoiler:Sam gets a fortune about someone close to him not being trustworthy, and ends up betrayed and murdered by his wife. Stephanie gets one about having a happy reunion with someone, and she and her girlfriend leave together as {{Karma Houdini}}s.]] Other arcs are referenced in the fortune card as well.
121* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:[[PsychoLesbian Stephanie and her lover]], who kill Sam and escape. Sam wasn't the best of husbands, true, but there was no valid reason whatsoever to resort to ''murder'' instead of just divorcing him.]]
122* {{Mundanger}}: This is the only segment in any of the films in the series where there is most probably nothing supernatural or sci-fi going on. [[spoiler:The villains are a PsychoLesbian couple with nothing really abnormal about them aside from being AxCrazy.]]
123** It's subtle, but the supernatural element may be [[spoiler:that the fortune-telling machine completely accurately foretold the fates of Sam and Stephanie. And that might be what makes the tape belong in the series with the others.]]
124* NothingIsScarier: In full force when, after their encounter with a would-be hitch-hiker after dark, [[spoiler:said hitch-hiker is ''in their room'', recording them both with their own camera while wielding a switchblade]]. Nothing happens that night.
125* PsychoLesbian: The "twist" is that [[spoiler:the stalker and the wife are in fact lovers who plotted to murder the latter's husband]].
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128[[folder:"Tuesday the 17th"]]
129* AllThereInTheManual: The audio commentary reveals a bit more about the nature of the Glitch, such as the fact that people killed by it become Glitch monsters themselves.
130* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Wendy, seeming to be the FinalGirl, actually led the rest of the group right into the Glitch's clutches.]]
131* CameraAbuse: A splash of blood ends up on the camera and remains there for the rest of the segment.
132* CrazyPrepared: Wendy managed to dig a pit, set a bear trap, and construct a bed of spikes to catch the Glitch, showing that she's been preparing to catch it, and therefore sacrifice her friends to it in the process, for a long while.
133* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Wendy gets disemboweled by the Glitch, perhaps even a ''second'' one, after she'd taken her friends to the woods to try and lure it out in the first place.]]
134* ElectromagneticGhosts: The Glitch is invisible, and can only show up on tape in the form of interference.
135* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Samantha]] gets a knife through the back of the skull, and it pokes out an eye from behind.
136* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Wendy, if her thrashing was that of a disemboweled woman in agony and not a side effect of becoming another Glitch.]]
137* FinalGirl: Wendy [[spoiler:is a subverted example. She is the one responsible for all the deaths, as she lured her friends up to the mountains to use as bait to catch the Glitch.]]
138* {{Foreshadowing}}:
139** The dead pig found by the characters [[spoiler:has its intestines draped over the ground, just like what happens to Wendy at the end]].
140** Wendy's comment that [[spoiler:the Glitch could be in two places at once. At the end, she apparently succeeds in killing the Glitch... only to be attacked and killed by a second Glitch a few moments later.]]
141** FiveSecondForeshadowing: Samantha's offer to show Spider "something really disgusting" is this considering [[spoiler:the Glitch throws a knife through the back of her head seconds later]], bordering on TemptingFate.
142* GenderEqualEnsemble: Two guys and two girls.
143* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Wendy gets gutted by the Glitch after manipulating her friends into coming up to the mountain as bait to try and capture it.]]
144* NoNameGiven: The killer, referred to in the credits simply as "The Glitch".
145* OhCrap: Wendy when she realizes [[spoiler:the Glitch has used either OffscreenTeleportation to escape her carefully constructed trap, or that a second Glitch had found her]].
146* SheWhoFightsMonsters: [[spoiler:Wendy, who uses her friends as bait in order to kill the Glitch.]]
147* TheVirus: The [[WordOfGod audio commentary]] suggests that those killed by the Glitch become Glitches themselves.
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150[[folder:"The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily When She Was Younger"]]
151* AlienAbduction: Strongly implied to be the cause of the events, coupled with [[spoiler:FaceFullOfAlienWingWong, given that James removes what looks to be a fetus from Emily's torso, just below the ribs]].
152* BodyHorror: At first, Emily gets a small bump on her arm, which she suspects is from bruising. Later, she [[spoiler: digs inside her arm with a scalpel and a kitchen skewer after suspecting something in there]]. But the crowning moment has to be [[spoiler:the reveal that she's pregnant with alien spawn... and it's heavily implied this isn't the first time. The thing she thought was in her arm was real as well, and is revealed to be a tracking device the aliens put in her.]]
153* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:James is working with the aliens who are abusing Emily, and is later seen doing the same to at least one other girl.]]
154* {{Bookends}}: The segment with a webcam chat between the title character and James, in which Emily complains about her arm and undresses for the camera. [[spoiler:At the end, James switches to a different chat and has almost exactly the same conversation with a different girl, revealing that Emily isn't the only one who has experienced this.]] Also an example of HereWeGoAgain.
155* CreepyChild: The [[spoiler:aliens]] look like this.
156* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:James' [[{{Gaslighting}} manipulations convince Emily that she's delusional]], and the very end reveals that he and the aliens are experimenting on at least one other woman.]]
157* DullSurprise: James. Justified due to the fact that [[spoiler:he's in league with the aliens and isn't actually concerned for her]].
158* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:James prevents the alien children from killing Emily, though this may be for the sake of avoiding unnecessary police attention. Regardless, it does reveal that he shows some degree of care for her.]]
159* {{Gaslighting}}: [[spoiler:James turns out to be in league with the aliens and manages to successfully convince Emily that she's delusional.]]
160* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: [[spoiler:Emily]] is only a little curious [[spoiler:when she's fishing around in her arm with a skewer.]]
161* NoNameGiven: The [[spoiler:aliens]].
162* ObliviouslyEvil: The [[spoiler:aliens]].
163* TrackingDevice: [[spoiler:The lump in Emily's arm]] turns out to be one of these.
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167* TheNineties: The segment is set in 1998, and the four friends go out to the Halloween party dressed as contemporary news items, the Unabomber and the Nanny Cam.
168* AlienGeometries: The house has this, and we get to see them actively shift.
169* AllPartOfTheShow: The initial reaction of the protagonists when they [[spoiler:stumble upon an exorcism in the attic, gleefully chanting "cast him down!"]] -- until they see the woman get smacked ''hard''. [[spoiler:In the alternate ending where they escape, they walk away thinking that everything they saw was just a particularly extreme and badass Halloween attraction.]]
170* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: The guys go back to save the poor captive girl. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, once they reach a [[RailroadTracksOfDoom railroad crossing]], [[FalseInnocenceTrick the favor is not returned]].]]
171* AttackOfTheMonsterAppendage: After the guys "save" the possessed girl from the exorcists, ghostly arms began reaching out of the walls and floor as they carry her out of the house.
172* DemonicPossession: The protagonists stumble upon an exorcism in progress. Thinking that the woman possessed is being held against her will, they try to free her, only to realize that there's a reason she was being held.
173* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The possessed girl causes the group to get trapped in their car on a level crossing and get hit by a train, and she herself is free to wreak havoc on the world.]]
174* EldritchLocation: The house definitely qualifies thanks to its AlienGeometries.
175* FalseInnocenceTrick: Possibly, if [[spoiler:the demon were escaping an [[HollywoodExorcism exorcism]] and not an instance of EvilInc, HijackingCthulhu as in ''Film/{{Siren|2016}}'']].
176* {{Foreshadowing}}: The main characters have to stop at a railroad crossing on the way to the party. On the return trip, [[spoiler:the possessed woman they tried to rescue makes the car stall in the middle of the same railroad crossing, causing them to be hit by the oncoming train.]] They also tease one another about [[spoiler:people reaching out of the walls]] when they start to explore the house, and the guy dressed as a teddy bear nanny-cam finds the same torn-up teddy bear in two different rooms.
177* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: There are no on-camera supernatural events for several minutes... except for a chair that seems to follow the cameraman.
178* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:The four main characters interrupt an exorcism and "save" the possessed girl, allowing her to go free and kill them all.]] Given that [[spoiler:they came upon four men chanting something weird, surrounding a chained-up girl while one of them held a knife]], conclusion-jumping is pretty understandable.
179* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: [[spoiler:Those guys really shouldn't have gone back to rescue that girl.]]
180* NothingIsScarier: Subverted. The segment starts out with all the supernatural events happening off-camera, to the annoyance of the cameraman. Of course, that's because he thinks they're just haunted house effects.
181* RealityIsOutToLunch: For a brief but ''intense'' sequence, the house becomes the site of a rapid-fire example.
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