Walkthrough V/H/S

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The film is an anthology of several stories, all of which feature "found footage". Each individual tape is framed by a story (titled "Tape 56") that follows a team of masked criminals that are sent by an unknown person to retrieve a VHS tape from a seemingly empty house. The movie starts by showing the crew breaking into dilapidated buildings and sexually harassing a young woman while holding back her boyfriend. They are later shown breaking into the house containing the tapes where they find a dead man that had been watching TV. As the team searches for the tape, one member stays behind to view a tape that was already in the VCR of the old man.
In between the shorts we are shown brief glimpses of the overlying arc where we are shown that the dead man had moved during one of the shorts without the viewer noticing. The team later returns to the room containing the dead man, only to find that the original viewer disappeared. The leader orders another man to watch the tape as they attempt to find the others. The leader returns later, only to discover that the second viewer has disappeared along with the dead man. He goes downstairs and discovers the decapitated remains of one of his men and is soon chased by the undead old man. The leader manages to make it upstairs where he falls down and is presumably killed by the old man, upon which point the VCR begins to play the final tape.

Amateur Night

The short follows Shane, Patrick, and Clint, three friends that have rented a hotel room with the intent to have fun and bring women back for sex. Clint dons a pair of glasses with a hidden web cam inside of them with the intent of recording the encounter. The three proceed to a local bar where Shane persuades two girls, Lily and Lisa, to return with them to their room. Lily shows signs of fear but agrees to go to their hotel room. Once there, Shane attempts to have sex with Lisa, only for him to grow angry when she quickly passes out. Lily shows signs of being attracted to Clint, who repeatedly goes to and from the bathroom because of a bad reaction to the drugs and alcohol he had earlier. Clint attempts to have a threesome with Lily and Patrick, only for Lily to refuse him and Clint to end up back in the bathroom. Joining him in the bathroom, Patrick discovers that Lily has severely bitten his hand.
The two men peek out of the bathroom, only to watch Lily devour Shane alive. The two try to escape but are stopped by Lily, who quickly kills and eats Patrick. The web cam then shows Lily beginning to transform into a vampire-like creature. Clint makes it out of the room, but breaks his wrist after falling down the stairs. Lily confronts Clint but does not attack him, instead showing signs of sexual attraction and repeating that she likes him. When he does not respond favorably to her affections Lily then hides in a corner and cries while Clint takes the opportunity to escape. He attempts to ask for help from strangers around the hotel but is stopped by Lily, who has shown her true form as a winged succubus and carries Clint off into the sky where his web cam glasses soon fall to the ground.

Second Honeymoon

A married couple, Sam and Stephanie, go out to the West for their second honeymoon and rent out a hotel room. The couple first visit a Wild West themed attraction in which Stephanie receives a prediction from a mechanic fortune teller. It reads that she will be visited by a loved one on the card the machine gives. Later that night while at the hotel, the couple are visited by a strange woman (the events are not shown on camera) who asks for a ride in the morning but Sam declines and the girl leaves later. When they both go to sleep though, an unseen camera wielder has gotten into the room and silently watches them both and even softly touching Stephanie's skin with a switchblade. The person leaves her alone though and steals $100 from Sam's wallet and goes into the bathroom where we can see in the mirror that the person is a mask wearing woman who then puts Sam's toothbrush in the toilet. The next day, Sam notices his money missing and accuses Stephanie of taking it while they are visiting a canyon.
On the final day before they leave, the person comes into the room again but this times murders Sam in his sleep by brutally stabbing him in the neck. The camera then shows the killer and Stephanie kissing in the bathroom, meaning that Stephanie had planned this with her "loved one" as told in her fortune. The two leave with Stephanie asking the girl if she erased the footage.

Tuesday the 17th

Wendy along with three of her friends, Joey, "Spider" and Samantha, go out to the town where Wendy is originally from. They arrive in the woods where Wendy aimlessly leads her friends deeper though they show no restlessness. As the group continue to film though, the footage shows strange glimpses of bodies and Wendy starts telling scary and confusing things to Joey. The group rest near a river and begin to smoke marijuana and Joey asks about what Wendy was saying before. She starts to talk about accidents she had with old friends and a mysterious man but she laughs and everyone believes she is joking. Spider and Samantha get away from the site but Samantha is then killed by something unseen and Spider tries to run but is soon toppled and killed by the person. The bodies are dragged away and Wendy soon comes and finds the camera and then heads back. Wendy finds a wet Joey who has come out the river and she awkwardly offers him sex. Joey becomes frustrated with Wendy who explains that the others were killed and she only brought them here as bait to bring in the killer, who terrorized her and killed her friends when she was younger.
The killer comes again and we see that the person is a silhouette of man covered by technical glitches and it kills Joey by slitting his throat. Wendy runs away and we see that she has already made traps to stop the killer but the first few fail until she finally stops it in a spiked trap. Wendy gloats that she finally has caught him after the other events and that people can finally believe her now. She turns around though only to see that the glitch man has escaped. She runs away but eventually falls down and tells the camera and whoever is watching to never come to the area. The killer then pounces on her and guts her with a knife as the film ends.

The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily When She Was Younger

A woman named Emily and her boyfriend James continue to video chat each other about her apartment being haunted. James does not believe this but recorded scares around the apartment continue to occur while Emily also feels a bump in her arm. She sees visions of young children appearing in the night and tries to ask her land lord if anyone had ever died in the apartment, thinking the child is a spirit. The land lord denies this and more scares continue to happen until Emily one day wants to go into the room and search with her eyes closed. James guides her and she soon faces two children, a boy and a girl, who soon attack her. Emily appears unconscious and James quickly enters the room with the children and it is shown that they are working together as James has always been with her in the apartment and he extracts a strange fetus-like thing from her back. The video cuts to James talking to a different lady and it is shown he is going to repeat the same process.

10/31/98

Chad, Matt, Tyler and Paul head out to a halloween party at a stranger's house but soon find the house deserted. They get in through the back and think the house is actually a haunted attraction. As they search around, the camera comes from Paul's nanny cam in his bear costume and shows distorted visions of ghosts. The friends hear loud chanting from the attic and soon find a cult about to perform a sacrifice using a young woman. They think this is a joke at first but soon realize the truth when the leader assaults the woman violently and strange hands emerge from the walls and the cult members are pulled to the ceiling. The guys get downstairs but decide to return and rescue the girl. Just as they save her, more haunting and disturbing paranormal events prevent them from escaping via the front door.
They exit through the basement and get into the car but when they begin to question the woman, she disappears and the car moves by itself. The friends witness the woman leave into the night and they realize that their car is on the train tracks. The final video ends as the friends are killed by the oncoming train.