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V/H/S: Viral
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V/H/S/ Viral is a 2014 Found Footage anthology film featuring segments directed by Marcel Sarmiento, Gregg Bishop, Nacho Vigolando, Justin Benson, and Aaron Moorhead. It follows 2012's V/H/S and 2013's 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 broader audience.Amateur videographer Kevin finds an escape from the problems he has with his abusive grandmother by filming his beautiful girlfriend Iris. When 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. Violence, injury, and insanity slowly begin to overcome the citizens of Los Angeles as they film the the chase, and Kevin is reduced to following a strange signal on his phone to find the van and rescue Iris before it's too late. 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. Parallel Monsters - In Spain, an inventor named Alfonso 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 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 of 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, 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. | |
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Jumping Off the Slippery Slope | |
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Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: 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. | |
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Evil Sounds Deep | |
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Evil Sounds Deep: The cultists and their chanting. | |
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Religion of Evil | |
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Religion of Evil: Whatever the cultists believe in, it probably counts. | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death: Clay, Scarlett's abusive boyfriend, ends up having multiple bones broken by John's telekinesis before he finally kills him. Several of the SWAT officers in the climax suffer similar fates. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: Adding to the tally of the previous installments, we now have an Eldritch Abomination 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 The End of the World as We Know It. Yet somehow there still manages to be a parallel world that's even more of a crapsack than this one. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: The segment features a literal one. Early on, Jason reveals that he carries a handgun, presumably for showing off or intimidation. 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. | |
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Ironic Echo | |
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Ironic Echo: Danny mockingly insists that his friend Jason would abandon him in a moment if things got dangerous. His friend comes through. | |
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Funny Background Event | |
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Funny Background Event: The blood from Taylor's 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 on fire. | |
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More than Mind Control | |
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More than Mind Control: Implied to be happening with several people throughout the segment, most notably Iris, who walks out into the middle of the street before disappearing, and seemingly taunts Kevin from a TV in the ending. | |
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Non-Indicative Name | |
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Non-Indicative Name: 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. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: The parallel Alfonso is apparently deeply disturbed by what happens during his off-screen encounter with Normal!Marta. 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 parallel world. | |
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Flipping the Bird | |
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Flipping the Bird: One of the skeletons does this just before exploding from a firework. | |
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Person of Mass Destruction | |
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Person of Mass Destruction: John, whenever he's wearing the cloak. | |
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Artifact of Doom | |
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Artifact of Doom: The cloak, which houses, or may be an extension of, a hungry Eldritch Abomination. | |
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*Click* Hello | |
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*Click* Hello: 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. | |
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Damsel in Distress | |
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Damsel in Distress: Iris 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's still alive. | |
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Dropped a Bridge on Him | |
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Dropped a Bridge on Him: The fight between the porn director and the model is ended by a police car flipping through the air and landing on their taxi, killing all three people inside. | |
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Wham Shot | |
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Wham Shot: It quickly becomes obvious to both Alfonso and the viewer that something is very off about his and Marta's Mirror Universe counterparts. When he looks up at the night sky and sees the satanic zeppelin, he realizes that he has stumbled into nothing less than Hell on Earth. | |
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Action Survivor | |
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Action Survivor: Jason and Danny. | |
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Affably Evil | |
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Affably Evil: The universe Alfonso visits might be inhabited by Succubi and Incubi 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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Improbable Infant Survival | |
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Improbable Infant Survival: Only one child is involved in any of the movie (the one recording the gangbangers' party), and they are expressly spared the events they witnessed... unless they died when the gas tank ruptured and the backyard exploded. | |
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Let's Get Dangerous! | |
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Let's Get Dangerous!: For the near-entirety of the climactic battle between John, the SWAT team, and Scarlett, the film itself switches from the Found Footage format to a traditionally-filmed action scene, possibly as a means of preparing the viewers for just how badass the scene itself is. | |
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Domestic Abuse | |
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Domestic Abuse: 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 Serial Killer with actual magic. | |
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Police Are Useless | |
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Police Are Useless: 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 promptly fly off. | |
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StageName | |
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Averted with Dante himself, which is just his Stage Name. His real name is John McMullen. | |
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The Un-Reveal | |
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The Unreveal: When Kevin finally catches up to the ice cream van, the only sign of the driver is a pair of severed hands duct-taped to the steering wheel. | |
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Big Red Button | |
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Big Red Button: Conveniently labeled "UPLOAD." | |
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Drunk on the Dark Side | |
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Drunk on the Dark Side: 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. | |
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I Have Your Wife | |
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I Have Your Wife: At the climax, 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 Dead All Along. | |
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Sanity Slippage | |
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Sanity Slippage: 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. | |
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones | |
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones: It's implied that John genuinely cares for Scarlett, up until she turns him in to the police. | |
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BadassNormal | |
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Badass Normal: 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 and eventually against a seemingly endless army of undead. | |
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Made of Plasticine | |
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Made of Plasticine: 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 until they are nothing but skeletons. | |
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Cosmic Horror Story | |
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Cosmic Horror Story: 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. | |
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Zeppelins from Another World | |
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Zeppelins from Another World: Taken to its nightmarish extent. In the Mirror Universe, Alfonso goes outside to see a satanic zeppelin with a huge, neon inverted cross broadcasting demonic chanting. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: The protagonist is a redhead named Scarlett. Averted with Dante himself, which is just his Stage Name. His real name is John McMullen. | |
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Game Face | |
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Game Face: When preparing to attack with their genitalia, the inhabitants of the parallel world radiate red light from their eyes and mouths. | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words: "Haven't you ever wanted to be a part of something bigger than you?" "Do you want to go viral?" | |
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New Media Are Evil | |
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New Media Are Evil: Implied. YouTube and Twitter are specifically name-dropped as helping spread evil videos. | |
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Developing Doomed Characters | |
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Developing Doomed Characters: A mainstay trait of the series that continues here, uninterrupted. | |
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Signature Style | |
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Signature Style: Nacho Vigolondo once more indulges his fondness for the Glowing Eyes and Throat Light combination. | |
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Humanoid Abomination | |
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Humanoid Abomination: A recurring theme of the series, it reaches ludicrous extremes in this segment. | |
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Asshole Victim | |
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Asshole Victim: 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. He gets his arm torn off, is set on fire, and is eaten by the creature the cultists were summoning. | |
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Karmic Death | |
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Karmic Death: 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 Alien Blood, then gets eaten by the creature they were summoning. Meanwhile, Jason and Danny, who have more redeeming qualities, manage to escape with their lives. | |
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Major Injury Underreaction | |
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Major Injury Underreaction: At one point, Danny gets his face set on fire. After a splash of water, he's ready to keep fighting like nothing happened. | |
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Faux Affably Evil | |
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Faux Affably Evil: 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 puns when using the cloak to fight off a SWAT team. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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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, prompting Jason to successfully rescue him and finish off the undead with illegal fireworks. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: 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 Safe Haven, that it's difficult to imagine they aren't connected. | |
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Reimagining the Artifact | |
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Reimagining the Artifact: 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 bleeding eyes), and most of the camera work is clearly using digital cameras or phone cameras. | |
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My God, What Have I Done? | |
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My God, What Have I Done?: Kevin says this before and after giving in to Iris's demands to upload the videos. | |
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Eye Scream | |
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Eye Scream: It's implied that watching the vignettes on YouTube is making people's eyes bleed. | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance: Beethoven's 9th Symphony plays at the most inappropriate time possible. | |
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Chekhov's Skill | |
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Chekhov's Skill: The rope trick John teaches Scarlett winds up being what she uses to defeat him. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: Jason and Danny when the demon roars from underground and all the cultists they've slain get back up. | |
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Abusive Parents | |
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Abusive Grandparent: Kevin lives with his grandmother, with whom he is constantly quarreling. She even bloodies his nose offscreen during a particularly vicious argument. | |
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Supervillain | |
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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 John himself taught her. | |
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Squick | |
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Squick: The parallel world treats bloody dismemberment as foreplay. Parallel!Marta is even visibly turned on at the thought of her husband butchering one of her would-be lovers. | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
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Too Dumb to Live: 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 Game Face (let alone Marta being left alone with one of those monsters). | |
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JerkassWithAHeartOfGold | |
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Jerkass with a Heart of Gold: 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. Finally, by the end of the segment, both of them back each other up in the fight against the cult. | |
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Hope Spot | |
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Hope Spot: Scarlett kills John and burns the cloak, only for it to appear in her house, unharmed, where it promptly seizes her. | |
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Fan Disservice | |
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Fan Disservice: Parallel!Marta and her very prominent Vagina Dentata. | |
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Vagina Dentata | |
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Vagina Dentata: Both female and male varieties are displayed in the parallel world. | |
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Nothing Is Scarier | |
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Nothing Is Scarier: An arm here and a leg there are all that is ever seen of the Big Bads of Dante The Great and Bonestorm. The driver of the ice cream van is never seen at all. | |
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge | |
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge: When police pursuing the van come near a backyard party, the attendees - heavily implied to be criminals - panic. In the following scuffle, a dog owned by one of the attendees is killed. Cut to said party guest standing over the dead bodies of his friends, all of whom have various kitchen implements sticking out of them. | |
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An Arm and a Leg | |
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An Arm and a Leg: Taylor gets his arm torn off. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard: Scarlett uses the rope trick that John himself taught her to feed him to the cloak. | |
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Driven to Madness | |
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Driven to Madness: Whatever Parallel!Alfonso did to Marta, it apparently left both of them incurably insane. | |
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Action Girl | |
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Action Girl: Scarlett. She quickly gets the hang of the Teleport Gun duel she finds herself in with John and doesn't back down, despite, or perhaps because of, having seen what he's capable of. | |
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Ludicrous Gibs | |
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Ludicrous Gibs: The segment invokes this trope throughout, but most brutally when the van strikes a police officer so hard that he explodes, his twitching arm landing at Kevin's feet. | |
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Psychic Nosebleed | |
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Psychic Nosebleed: A sign that someone is under the mental influence of the videos. | |
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From Nobody to Nightmare | |
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From Nobody to Nightmare: The title character. 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 long lost cloak owned by Harry Houdini, imbued with frightening supernatural power. | |
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Groin Attack | |
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Groin Attack: Alfonso escapes from an attacking monster by skewering its demonic phallus with the screwdriver he carries. It's inverted later on when Parallel!Alfonso is shown being devoured alive by his wife's Vagina Dentata. | |
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Oddball in the Series | |
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Oddball in the Series: VHS and 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 Reimagining the Artifact below. | |
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Twin Switch | |
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Twin Switch: The segment's plot is this, with a dark twist. | |
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The Dog Bites Back | |
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The Dog Bites Back: A woman being filmed by a man for an amateur porn site 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. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: 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 Taylor, who wants to see them fight him. | |
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