V/H/S/99

Year: 2022

Actors: Ryan Dunn, Steven Ogg, Sonya Eddy, Ally Ioannides

Duration: 109 min

"The Gawkers" (Frame One):A stop-motion war video scene plays where the WWII soldiers are preparing for combat. Some of the soldiers aren't doing very well with their roles of battle. Eventually, one of the soldiers, Johnson went out of control, drives a tank, and kills 4 of the armed soldiers. The tape glitches showing portions of scenes from the other films of the franchise."Shredding":R.A.C.K. (acronym for members Rachel (Jesse LaTourette), Ankur (Keanush Tafreshi), Chris (Dashiell Derrickson) and Kaleb (Jackson Kelly)) are a punk rock band who loves pulling pranks, and regularly record their antics on a web show that they host. For their latest video, the band is gonna sneak inside a former music hall called the Colony Underground that have been burned down three years ago when a chemical fire claimed the lives of another punk band, Bitch Cat, who died after being trampled during a chaotic stampede. This worries Ankur, but he poorly agrees to the plan. The tape glitches to a 1995 demo reel of Bitch Cat's performances and their interviews. Returning to the main tape, R.A.C.K. is preparing for their venture to the Colony Underground. When they entered in the condemned venue, they quartet explores the site. A reluctant Ankur, who was unable to take the group's jokes, warns Rachel about his fear of a supernatural creature called a bhuta. having heard that they possess any person who defiles their resting place. When the group went to the abandoned stage, they joke on Ankur pretending that the bhuta possessed them. Ankur storms off angerly, declaring he hopes that the creature comes for them. The members, apart from Ankur, produce gelatin-filled inflatable sex dolls depicting Bitch Cat. They reenact the stampede until suddenly a distorted voice telling the group to get off her stage. The creature grabs Kaleb, killing him and splashing his bloody remains from the ceiling. Rachel and Chris panics and fled the stage when the creature picks up the camera and comes after them. The angry, zombified bhutas, reveiling to be the Bitch Cat, filmed themselves as they distortingly shouts their catchphrase "live or die". Chris runs away, but is confronted by Bitch Cat, ripping his abdomen open and eats his organs as he potentially dies. Rachel is the remaining person left. Bitch Cat found Ankur hiding and he throws either salt at one of the bhutas, melting a portion of her face. Then eventually, the tape glitches at the scene where Bitch Cat kills Ankur off-screen. Rachel is the only remaining person. She tries to escape the venue, but Bitch Cat grabs her and tears her apart. The reanimated remains of R.A.C.K., now possessed by Bitch Cat, performs one of the groups old songs onstage as the tape ends."The Gawkers" (Frame Two):As the scene plays, a soldier hits the ground with a parachute. He spots the Axis soldiers, until eventually, some construction paper on the set forms into what appears to be a giant phoenix. The phoenix then kills the soldier as the scene ends."Suicide Bid":Lily (Ally Ioannides), a college freshman, is desperate to join the most prestigious sorority called Beta Sigma Eta on their campus. Lily is performing a "Suicide Bid" - only applying to one sorority as her recruitment choice - risking potential alienation upon rejection. The effort appears to pay off, as Lily is invited out for a night on the town with the Beta Sigma Eta sisters. Annie (Isabelle Hahn) and the sisters takes Lily to a graveyard nearby where, as part of a hazing ritual, she is dared to spend the night buried in a coffin. The sisters reveal this is meant to recreated an urban legend wherein another freshman called Giltine, was dared to commit the same deed the enter some sorority 20 years earlier. only to be forgotten by her classmats for a week. She was found vanished when the coffin was unearthed, rumored to have crawled into the underworld. If they listened to it closely, they'll hear a knocking sound from a desperate Giltine, waiting for a person to come to the underworld with him. Lily drinks her flask and the sisters cheer. Before Lily gets in the the coffin, one of the sisters warns her about Giltine as she gets worried. Lily then enters the coffin with a box, whose contents she is told will provide reassurance if the resolve falters, and a camcorder to film her ordeal. The group started performing a fake ritual. Several minutes later, Lily starts getting claustrophoic and scared. She then hearing banging noises from her coffin, which startles her. Then, spiders crawled through the coffin and Lily freaks out because the spiders are on her. So, she rings the bell that the sisters set in the event of an emergency. The sisters were making noise, until a policeman shows up spotting the sisters as they flee the scene. As a sudden rain storm appears, Lily was left in the coffin, crying for help. The coffin slowly gets flooded the rain water. When the flooding stopped, a ghoul breaks through the coffin and attacks Lily. The next morning, the sisters went back to the graveyard and saw that the grave flooded and saw an empty coffin. They agreed never to mention the sorority. That night, when the sisters woke up, they realized they're buried in coffins. Lily, now a ghoul, appears in Annie's coffin with Giltine, whom to have made a deal with Lily. She offers the sisters to her as replacement victims if she spares a soul. The two then attack as the sisters scream in terror and the scene ends."The Gawkers" (Frame Three):A monster attacks the area as the soldiers tries to fight it off. Another mother bit one of the soldiers in half. The two surviving soldiers tells him he'll be all right. But, the soldier suddenly dies and the soldiers wanders off."Ozzy's Dungeon":Ozzy's Dungeon was a children's game show where young contestants participate in physical challenges for a chance to descend into the titular dungeon and meet Ozzy, who will allow the winner to be granted a wish. After the intro, The host (Steven Ogg) begins the first challenge, "Pop the Balloons". During the challenge, the host asks a boy what his wish is. The boy wishes to be the most famous basketball player ever. However, the boy got into complete pain. The host begin the second challenge, "Catch the Meat". Donna (Amelia Ann), one of the contestants from Detroit, wins the challenges and her wish was to help to poverty-stricken family leave their run-down neighborhood. Though, her wish was never said as the screen transitions to some contestants dancing. During the final, unbeaten challenge, the enthusiastic Donna and another contestant Timmy begins going through the orifices possibly full of rice, the throat slide the jello stomach, the intestine and the poop chute to get to their wish. But then, Donna gets her leg brutally and permanently crippled by Timmy, splattering blood on the set, losing the show after the host dosen't stop the challenge so her injury can be intented to. Years later, after the show was cancelled, Donna's mother, Debra (Sonya Eddy), wakes up the show's former host as he his trapped in a dog cage in her family's basement. She revealed to have groomed her daughter to win the show at all costs so she could escape Detroit. With the help of her husband, Marcus (Jerry Boyd), their son, Brandon (Charles Lott Jr.), and Donna - who now uses a wheelchair and whose injured leg is gangrenous and is decaying - Debra films the torture and the aggravation of the host. She has a jar full off sulfuric acid and she threatens the host with it. The host said the show was on a budget and that's why the wishes never came true. So Debra forced him to play several deadly versions of the challenges from the show. Their version of "Pop the Balloons" involves Brandon wearing a helmet with knives and impales it into the hosts abdomen. Their version of "Catch the Meat" involves Donna throwing raw chicken at the host as he is forced to catch it with his mouth. Their version of the final challenge has orifices full off glass, a pool full of pee, and the poop chute full of actual poop. The host failed to beat the clock and is tied to a pole where Debra is prepared to splash the acid on him. But, the host said he knows where Donna can get her wish. The family and the host went to the studio - which was guarded - via car where the show was filmed years ago. The host leads the family to the near entrance. Traversing the set, the group soon stand before the large wooden door which supposedly lead to the dungeon. The door was opened by the host's former assistant, and is revealed to lead to an actual cave. Inside, the host said the cave knows his aura and the family hears groaning noises from afar. The family discover Ozzy upon an altar, being worshopped by the assistant and people dressed in the attire of the show's contestants. Donna is brought before Ozzy to tell her her wish, after which Ozzy convulses and births a monstrous creature. Granting Donna's wish, the creature proceeds to fire a beam out of its eye at the host and the family, melting their faces. The tape ends with Donna smiling mischieviously at the camera.The Gawkers (Frame Four + Story)Brady (Ethan Pogue), a young teenager who films stop-motion videos of toy soldiers with his older brother Dylan's (Luke Mullen) camera. While Brady films his latest video of two soldiers making love, Dylan bursts into his room and takes the camera, which he uses the film himself practicing pick-up lines. He and his friends Kurt (Tyler Lofton), Mark (Cree Kawa) and Boner (Duncan Anderson) exclude Brady from their activities, thinking him to be a hopeless loser. The friends then go out to pull some pranks on the neighborhood residents and each other including drawing a penis on Boner's forehead and made him slap cream on his privates. Then, they perform tricks at the local skatepark. The group also discover a large patch of snakeskin near a field and are a bit disgusted by it. They taunted Boner to eat it for 50 cents. After concealing the camera and using it in an attempt to get secret up-skirt photos of two girls, the teens become fixated on Sandra (Emily Sweet), an attractive blonde who has moved into the house across the street from Brady and Dylan's house, whose yard is revealed to be decorated with several stone busts. As the boys film her washing her car from Brady's window, they are interrupted by a deliveryman who hands Sandra a Macintosh computer. Brady later meets and befriends Sandra, who invites him into her house while he attempts to rollerskate, much to Dylan's shock and jealousy. Upon Brady's return, Kurt, Mark and Boner compliment him for his newfound relationship with Sandra. When they beg him for information, Brady tells him that Sandra invited him back to help set up a new webcam. Dylan and his friends enlist Brady to follow through on this promise, pressuring him into installing spyware on her computer, intending to hack into her webcam in the hopes of seeing her nude. Brady reluctantly agrees and returns to Sandra's house that night. Although he is nearly caught, he manages to install the spyware, despite being wracked with guilt for spying on Sandra and betraying her trust. Unbothered, Dylan and his friends watch Sandra as she undresses as Brady leaves the room. The boys are horrified to witness Sandra bending her limbs, ripping off her scalp, uncovering hair made of snakes and revealing that she is actually a gorgon. Sandra appears to notice what the boys are doing through the webcam and leaps from her window to their house. One of the friends tries calling the police on Sandra, but she breaks into Dylan's room and attacks them, killing Kurt, Mark, and Boner. As Dylan flees, Brady arrives and attempts to reason with Sandra, apologizing for violating her privacy. Not accepting his apology, Sandra turns Brady to stone, then proceeds to petrify Dylan as well. Now fully transformed, she slowly approaches the camera, stuck in Dylan's stony hand, as the tape comes to an end."To Hell And Back":On New Year's Eve 1999, best friends and videographers Nate (Archelaus Cristano) and Troy (Joseph Winter) have been hired by what is revealed to be a coven of witches. Their task is to film the witches performing a ritual where a woman named Kirsten (Tori Pence) volunteers to be offered as a vessel to a powerful demon known as Ukabon (Dustin Watts). Despite agreeing to film the ritual, Nate is notably skeptical of his clients and thinks that the ritual may be a prank. The witches performing the ritual tell the duo that while they call to Ukabon, they will not actually summon it until the stroke of midnight on the new millennium, when the veil between Earth and Hell is at its thinnest. As the ritual begins, Ferkus, an uninvited demon who has disrupted the coven's rituals before, makes its presence known. As the witches attempt to cast it out, Ferkus grabs Nate and Troy and drags them underneath the witches' altar. As his camera glimpses Ferkus retreating, Troy slowly discovers that he and Nate have been sent to Hell. The duo encounter bloodthirsty demons, hazardous traps, and mutilated bodies spread throughout the cavernous landscape, prompting Nate to arm himself with a discarded pitchfork as a means of protection. As they make their way across Hell, Nate and Troy cross paths with Mabel (Melanie Stone), a damned soul who speaks in archaic terms and can tell that they are mortal, thus making them irresistible to hungry demons. She decides to help them escape by leading them to Ukabon, whom she hates, in exchange for the two of them writing her name in the witches' spell book. Nate and Troy also remember how the witches told them that the veil between Earth and Hell is weakest at midnight, and since Ukabon is the only conduit through which the duo can return to Earth, they have only minutes to find them before they are stuck in Hell for eternity. While trekking across Hell, the group encounters more demons, and Nate and Troy bicker with one another constantly over their predicament, confusing Mabel with their modern ways of speaking. Eventually, the group enters a cave where they find Ukabon, surrounded by a cult of masked demons, preparing to enter Kirsten's body. The demon cultists attack the trio, but Nate and Troy manage to kill them. As midnight rapidly approaches, Nate and Troy shout at Mabel to come with them to Earth. She is unfortunately stabbed by one of the cultists, reminding them to write her name in the book. The two friends jump inside Ukabon's cavernous stomach just as the ritual commences. The duo successfully return to Earth, albeit with Nate possessing Kirsten's body. Furious that their ritual has failed, the witches kill Nate and Troy before arguing with one another about what went wrong. A dying Troy uses his blood to write Mabel's name in the book the witches used to summon Ukabon, then succumbs to his injuries before the tape ends."The Gawkers (Final Frame)": The tape returns to the previous segment, showing Dylan and Brady's stone bodies before the camera's battery runs out.As the credits end, the witches can be heard performing their ritual again, this time calling Mabel's name, hinting that she will return to Earth. Then, a final clip of Brady's video shows a soldier spying on enemies, but gets ran over by a tank - presumably Johnson's - and the clip ends.

Genre: Action   Horror