A 2022 sequel to WNUF Halloween Special, heavily influenced by the culture of The '90s instead of The '80s like WNUF,
The first part of the film is a recording of Ivy Sparks, a Point-and-Laugh Show Talk Show featuring unusual Halloween-themed guests.
The second part of the film follows Ivy in her new post-cancellation job: the cohost of Out There, an investigative reporting show focused on the paranormal. This particular Halloween night sees the crew investigating a local military base that is shrouded in secrecy and rumors of alien contact, as well as awaiting what appears to be impending UFO landing nearby...
This recording has examples of:
- Apocalypse Cult: The Temple of Divine Purity, the UFO cult awaiting the landing, is heavily inspired by Heaven's Gate
down to the nicknames and matching clothing. They all drink poison upon seeing the UFO land, but by the time the fakery is revealed, it's too late to do anything about it. - Attack of the Political Ad: As in WNUF, a pair of politicians trade barbs back and forth over the course of the recording.
- Boy Meets Ghoul: One guest on Ivy Sparks is there to confess to her husband that she's cheating on him with the ghost of a woman from the Civil War era. It ends happily when the ghost suggests a threesome.
- Catchphrase: Ivy's talk show mantra is "Be nice!", but she's clearly over it by the time she's working at Out There.
- Crop Circles: Shown as proof of alien activity.
- Deliberate VHS Quality
- Gone Horribly Right: Ivy Sparks is implied to be trying hard to make something shocking after losing her cushy talk show slot. It's implied by a scene at the end of the video that she ends up a scapegoat after she effectively helped broadcast a live mass suicide, with Out There itself cancelled indefinitely.
- Immoral Journalist: Applies to basically the entire WNUF production team. For the second time, the producers exploited a real tragedy with real deaths as the basis for a ratings-grabbing Halloween hoax, and both times, it unintentionally lead to the deaths of multiple people due to irresponsible security measures and sensationalism.
- Intrepid Reporter: The Out There crew have taken great pains to get cameras inside of the military base, which may have lead to the deaths of their cameramen.
- Subverted. It turns out all of it was faked for publicity. With disastrous consequences.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: In the original of *WNUF*, the killers are actually members of the Meadow Ridge Baptist Church, and they're never caught. In the final scene of *Out There*, the Church is demolished for unspecified reasons, and the bodies of the original victims are found, though not identified yet.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: A running theme in both films is the conflict between superstition and skepticism. In both cases, the superstition is totally debunked and leads to multiple deaths.
- Ouija Board: Used by Heidi-Mae in the Ivy Sparks segment to communicate with her ghostly lover, Margaret Ann.
- Production Throwback: During a news segment warning people to keep safe on Halloween night, the possessed Scraps teddy bear from the director's previous film, What Happens Next Will Scare You, can be seen sitting on the memorial for children killed by a drunk driver the previous year.
- Retraux
- Show Within a Show: The fake movies Reed Richmond has starred in and shares factoids about.
- Totally Radical: Many of the fake advertisements such as a Super Soaker-eqsue water gun.
