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  • Vicious Circles, the wraparound segment. Whatever doesn't fall under Narm falls straight into this.
    • At one point, a group of cyclists chases the van alongside Kevin. One of them grabs onto the back of the van, falls off his bike, and gets dragged down the street at high speed, struggling and screaming, eventually shredding his feet to the bone.
    • Another group of kids are trying to film the van from a bridge. As the van drives past, one of them slips and falls off the bridge and is run over by a police car. You get to see this from their perspective.
    • The party full of gangbangers that ends up with one of them murdering everyone else at the party (sans the little girl who was filming it) by stabbing them with forks. The van then passes, and a gas tank is revealed to have ruptured in the chaos, causing what's left of the party to go up in an enormous fireball.
    • The bizarre contorted face the man in the taxi makes as he strangles the woman that tried to get vengeance on him.
    • At the end, when Kevin finally finds the van, it's surrounded by body parts, and a pair of severed hands are taped to the wheel. He takes a look inside... and Iris isn't there. Then all the monitors come on, and Iris tells him to push the Big Red Button to upload the van's Hate Plague to the entire city (at the very least). When he refuses, she goes Laughing Mad and starts hitting her head against the wall on the monitor (see above).
    Iris: We're gonna go viral. *BANG* We're gonna go viral! *BANG* We're gonna go viral!
  • Dante the Great. Despite being framed largely as a documentary instead of traditional Found Footage, the segment still manages to evoke terror.
    • The cloak. It grants people the ability to perform true magic at the cost of regular human sacrifices. It's also often heard whispering and seen being moved by unseen forces. Its original owner, Harry Houdini, was afraid of it and got rid of it. There's also the fact that it's never revealed how John found the cloak himself.
    • John videotapes the cloak every time it devours someone, then keeps the tapes hidden in a circuit breaker in his dressing room.
    • One of John's first experiments with the cloak is killing and splitting open a live rabbit. He later repeats this on a SWAT team member during the climax.
    • John is also able to summon things with the cloak. He does this to Scarlett's abusive boyfriend so he can telekinetically kill him. He also manages to effortlessly snatch Scarlett from her filmed police interrogation.
    • He can also conjure fireballs with the cloak, which causes a massive fire when he first tries it out. He also inflicts this on a SWAT team member.
    • Lastly, John can use the cloak to swap places with people. He uses this to escape from police custody, then to swap places with a SWAT team member to shoot the last surviving officer.
    • In the end, Scarlett manages to trick the cloak into consuming John, then takes it to her home and burns it. She finds it hanging on her closet door later that night, as a pair of demonic arms reach out of it and grab her.
  • Parallel Monsters. Every single aspect of the alternate world Alfonso discovers, given that it's quite literally Hell on Earth.
    • People routinely watch pornographic snuff films for entertainment. All we can see on Alfonso's TV in the alternate world is some kind of altar covered with bones and surrounded by fire as sexual moans ring out.
    • In lieu of him and Marta, Alfonso's wedding photo in the alternate world is a sack of organs surrounded by lit candles. A similar sack is seen in the living room when the alternate Marta tries to involve who she thinks is her husband in some kind of orgy/ceremony, showing that these organ sacks are apparently involved in... whatever way sex is performed in this world.
    • The skies are routinely patrolled by giant zeppelins with inverted crosses that broadcast Ominous Latin Chanting. The alternate version of Marta isn't unnerved in the slightest.
    • People have monstrous creatures that act as genitalia in the alternate world. Their eyes and mouths glow bright red when these genital creatures become active.
    • In the alternate world, the punishment for domestic violence is apparently death, as the alternate Marta devours her husband's head with her Vagina Dentata after the normal Alfonso punches her in fear.
    • When we last see them, the alternate Alfonso and the normal Marta are last seen covered in blood and nearly insane. It makes one wonder just what in the hell happened between them.
  • Bonestorm. The flood channel where Jason, Danny, Taylor, and Shaun perform skateboard tricks is covered in occult symbols.
    • One of the skaters ends up injuring himself and bleeds on a pentagram drawn in the pavement, where his blood promptly boils.
    • Before everything goes to hell, the skaters meet a mysterious woman who preaches about how their "beloved creature" will be born soon. She later appears in the flood channel after the above mentioned blood boiling, where she tears Taylor's arm off. What's worse, she's never seen again after this.
    • Throughout the segment, the skaters end up battling the cultists that emerge from nowhere. Something suddenly roars, causing the cultists to return from the dead. The skaters continue beating them until they're left as ravenous skeletons.
    • The ending of the segment. The surviving skaters flee for the border, all the cultists are finally dead, leaving us to think that's it... but then we cut back to Taylor's camera, just as whatever the cultists were summoning finally emerges, roaring, from the storm drain. The creature then swallows the barely alive Taylor and his camera, and we get a lovely shot of its gullet as the camera goes down its throat.

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