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* FanDisservice: Bare breasts, buttocks, and male and female genitalia. All featured during disturbing pseudo-rape sequences or murders. In particular, there's Lily in "Amateur Night", who we get to see, fully nude, going down on a guy...''after'' having turned into a monster. [[spoiler:She's actually quite hurt that he's terrified rather than aroused.]]

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* FanDisservice: Bare breasts, buttocks, and male and female genitalia. All featured during disturbing pseudo-rape sequences or murders. In particular, there's Lily in "Amateur Night", who we get to see, fully nude, going down on a guy...''after'' [[spoiler:''after'' having turned into a monster.monster]]. [[spoiler:She's actually quite hurt that he's terrified rather than aroused.]]
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* FanDisservice: Bare breasts, buttocks, and male and female genitalia. All featured during disturbing pseud-rape sequences or murders. In particular, there's Lily in "Amateur Night", who we get to see, fully nude, going down on a guy...''after'' having turned into a monster. [[spoiler:She's actually quite hurt that he's terrified rather than aroused.]]

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* FanDisservice: Bare breasts, buttocks, and male and female genitalia. All featured during disturbing pseud-rape pseudo-rape sequences or murders. In particular, there's Lily in "Amateur Night", who we get to see, fully nude, going down on a guy...''after'' having turned into a monster. [[spoiler:She's actually quite hurt that he's terrified rather than aroused.]]
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* FanDisservice: Bare breasts, buttocks, and male and female genitalia. All featured during disturbing pseud-rape sequences or murders. In particular, there's Lily in "Amateur Night", who we get to see, fully nude, going down on a guy...''after'' having turned into a monster. [[spoiler:She's actually quite hurt that he's terrified rather than aroused.]]
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* CameraAbuse: [[spoiler: Every story ends with the person doing the filming murdered, and in a few the camera definitely gets destroyed (leading one to wonder how the old man got the tapes). In "Tuesday the 17th" a splash of blood ends up on the camera and remains there for the rest of the segment.

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* CameraAbuse: [[spoiler: Every story ends with the person doing the filming murdered, and in a few the camera definitely gets destroyed (leading one to wonder how the old man got the tapes). In "Tuesday the 17th" a splash of blood ends up on the camera and remains there for the rest of the segment.]]



* FinalGirl: [[spoiler:Wendy in "Tuesday the 17th", but it's subverted as she is the one responsible for all the deaths, as she lured her friends up to the mountains to use as bait to catch the killer.]]

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* FinalGirl: [[spoiler:Wendy in "Tuesday the 17th", but it's subverted as subverted; she is the one responsible for all the deaths, as she lured her friends up to the mountains to use as bait to catch the killer.]]



* GenderEqualEnsembles: Mostly averted, but in "Tuesday the 17th" there are two guys and two girls.

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* GenderEqualEnsembles: GenderEqualEnsemble: Mostly averted, but in "Tuesday the 17th" there are two guys and two girls.
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* CameraAbuse: [[spoiler:Every story ends with the person doing the filming murdered, and in a few the camera definitely gets destroyed (leading one to wonder how the old man got the tapes). In "Tuesday the 17th" a splash of blood ends up on the camera and remains there for the rest of the segment.

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* CameraAbuse: [[spoiler:Every [[spoiler: Every story ends with the person doing the filming murdered, and in a few the camera definitely gets destroyed (leading one to wonder how the old man got the tapes). In "Tuesday the 17th" a splash of blood ends up on the camera and remains there for the rest of the segment.
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* CameraAbuse: [[spoiler:Every story ends with the person doing the filming murdered, and in a few the camera definitely gets destroyed (leading one to wonder how the old man got the tapes). In "Tuesday the 17th" a splash of blood ends up on the camera and remains there for the rest of the segment.


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* FinalGirl: [[spoiler:Wendy in "Tuesday the 17th", but it's subverted as she is the one responsible for all the deaths, as she lured her friends up to the mountains to use as bait to catch the killer.]]
* FoundFootageFilms
* GenderEqualEnsembles: Mostly averted, but in "Tuesday the 17th" there are two guys and two girls.


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* InterfaceScrew: Strongest in "Tuesday the 17th" as the killer's presence always makes the picture begin to break up, but ultimately used in all of them since non-professional footage almost always includes lag, freezing and pixelization. Noticeable as well in "The Sick Thing that Happened to Emily When She Was Younger" as they're using video chat, which is notorious for "cubing out". So naturally it happens to Emily's image a couple of times.
* JitterCam: Throughout.


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* MuggingTheMonster: Well, more like [[spoiler:''raping'' the monster, as Patrick in "Amateur Night" is bitten when he tries to initiate a threesome with Lily and Shane. This is pretty much when everybody begins to understand that Lily isn't just drunk or high, and is what sparks her complete transformation into...whatever she is.]]


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* SnuffFilm: [[spoiler:''All of them''.]]
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* EldritchLocation: The house in "10/31/98" definitely qualifies.


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* NothingIsScarier: Invoked here and there, but really, much of what happens has no explanation, or very sparse. Even in "Tape 56" the thugs aren't sure what they're looking for, or who's house this is. It's implied they don't even know who hired them. And we have no idea how or why [[spoiler:the dead old man comes BackFromTheDead]].
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* DownerEnding: For '''EVERY''' story and even the wraparound one.

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* [[spoiler: DownerEnding: For '''EVERY''' story and even including the wraparound one.]]
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* DownerEnding: For ''EVERY'' story and even the wraparound one.

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* DownerEnding: For ''EVERY'' '''EVERY''' story and even the wraparound one.
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* DownerEnding: For ''EVERY'' story and even the wraparound one.

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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Wendy in "Tuesday the 17th".

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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Wendy in "Tuesday the 17th". Also James from "The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily When She Was Younger".


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* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:James]] from "The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily When She Was Younger" who prevents the children from killing Emily. Possibly subverted in that he may have been doing it for the sake of avoiding unnecessary police attention. But he does show a degree of care for her.


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* [[HeWhoFightsMonsters She Who Fights Monsters]]: [[spoiler:Wendy from "Tuesday the 17th" who uses her friends as bait in order to kill the monster in the woods.]]
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**A sequel will be created during 2013.

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* ArcWords: "I like you."


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* BitchInSheep'sClothing: Wendy in "Tuesday the 17th".

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* BitchInSheep'sClothing: BitchInSheepsClothing: Wendy in "Tuesday the 17th".
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* [[spoiler: BackFromTheDead]]: The dead man the group in "Tape 56" find, though we don't learn how.
* BitchInSheep'sClothing: Wendy in "Tuesday the 17th".


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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Wendy from "Tuesday the 17th" gets gutted by the killer after manipulating her friends into coming up to the mountain as bait to try and capture him.]]
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* [[spoiler: AlienAbduction]]: Strongly implied to be the cause of the events in "The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily When She Was Younger".


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* DemonicPossession: In "10/31/98" and possibly in "Tape 56".
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* CreepyChild: The [[spoiler:aliens]] in "The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily When She Was Younger" look like this.



* StylisticSuck: It varies but is most prominent during the wrap-around segment.

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* StylisticSuck: It varies but is most prominent during the wrap-around segment.
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* AssholeVictim: Much of the characters fit this, but the ones in "Tape 56" take the cake. They're a bunch of thugs who spend their time vandalizing houses and forcibly pulling up girl's tops.

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* AssholeVictim: Much Many of the characters fit this, but the ones in "Tape 56" take the cake. They're a bunch of thugs who spend their time vandalizing houses and forcibly pulling up girl's tops.
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* StylisticSuck: It varies but is most prominent during the wrap-around segment.
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* CreepyCute: Lily from "Amateur Night".

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* AlienGeometries: The house in "10/31/98" has this.



* HornyDevils: Lily, the girl from 'Amateur Night', is a succubus-type creature.
* [[spoiler:PsychoLesbian]]: The "twist" of "Second Honeymoon" is that [[spoiler:the stalker and the wife are in fact lovers who plotted to murder the latter's husband.]]

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* HornyDevils: Lily, the girl from 'Amateur Night', "Amateur Night", is a succubus-type creature.
* [[spoiler:PsychoLesbian]]: The "twist" of "Second Honeymoon" is that [[spoiler:the stalker and the wife are in fact lovers who plotted to murder the latter's husband.]]
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* HornyDevils: Lily, the girl from 'Amateur Night', is one of these.

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* HornyDevils: Lily, the girl from 'Amateur Night', is one of these.a succubus-type creature.
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[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vhs-poster_510_3635.jpg]]'''''V/H/S''''' is a FoundFootage {{anthology}} film directed by Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn [=McQuaid=], Joe Swanberg, and Radio Silence.

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[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vhs-poster_510_3635.jpg]]'''''V/H/S''''' is a 2012 FoundFootage {{anthology}} film directed by Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn [=McQuaid=], Joe Swanberg, and Radio Silence.
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[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vhs-poster_510_3635.jpg]]'''''V/H/S''''' is a FoundFootage {{anthology}} film directed by Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, and Radio Silence.

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[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vhs-poster_510_3635.jpg]]'''''V/H/S''''' is a FoundFootage {{anthology}} film directed by Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, [=McQuaid=], Joe Swanberg, and Radio Silence.
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'''''V/H/S''''' is a FoundFootage {{anthology}} film directed by Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, and Radio Silence.

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'''''V/H/S''''' [[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vhs-poster_510_3635.jpg]]'''''V/H/S''''' is a FoundFootage {{anthology}} film directed by Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, and Radio Silence.
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* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Happens quite a bit, even with the short running time with each short.

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* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Happens quite a bit, even with the short running time with each short.story.
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* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Happens quite a bit, especially with 'Second Honeymoon'.

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* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Happens quite a bit, especially even with 'Second Honeymoon'.the short running time with each short.



* [[spoiler:PsychoLesbian]]: The "twist" of Second Honeymoon is that [[spoiler:the stalker and the wife are in fact lovers who plotted to murder the latter's husband.]]

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* [[spoiler:PsychoLesbian]]: The "twist" of Second Honeymoon "Second Honeymoon" is that [[spoiler:the stalker and the wife are in fact lovers who plotted to murder the latter's husband.]]
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'''''V/H/S''''' is a FoundFootage {{anthology}} film directed by Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, and Radio Silence.

A group of hoodlums is hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire a rare VHS tape. Upon arriving, they discover the dead body of the owner and stacks of videotapes. As they search for the right one, they are treated to a seemingly endless number of horrifying videos, each stranger than the last.

* Tape 56: The wraparound story.
* Amateur Night: Three college guys plan on videotaping their sexual encounters and get more than they bargained for when they pick up a strange woman from the bar.
* Second Honeymoon: A couple on a road trip are stalked by a mysterious stranger.
* Tuesday the 17th: A group of twenty-somethings party in the woods and are stalked by an entity that can only be viewed via videorecorder.
* The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily When She Was Younger: A girl talking with her boyfriend via webcam believes that she is being plagued by paranormal phenomenon.
* 10/31/98: A foursome heads to a Halloween party only to find out that the house hosting it is abandoned.

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'''This movie provides examples of the following:'''

* ApocalypticLog
* AssholeVictim: Much of the characters fit this, but the ones in "Tape 56" take the cake. They're a bunch of thugs who spend their time vandalizing houses and forcibly pulling up girl's tops.
* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Happens quite a bit, especially with 'Second Honeymoon'.
* ElectromagneticGhosts: The killer in "Tuesday the 17th" is invisible and can only show up on tape as interference.
* [[spoiler:PsychoLesbian]]: The "twist" of Second Honeymoon is that [[spoiler:the stalker and the wife are in fact lovers who plotted to murder the latter's husband.]]

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