History Film / VHS2

[[folder: In General]]

* AteHisGun: [[spoiler: The rider at the end of ''A Ride in The Park'', the cultists throughout ''Safe Haven'' and Ayesha herself during Tape 49.]] Also Kyle, the missing college student and center of attention in ''Tape 49''. [[spoiler: Not that it killed him for long.]]

* BlackComedy: Lot more than in ''V/H/S'' especially ''A Ride in the Park'' and [[spoiler: arguably the end of ''Safe Haven''.]]

* CosmicHorrorStory: There is an increasingly strong implication of this throughout both the first and second film. [[spoiler: It's implied in the ending that the tapes themselves are directly tied to it.]]
* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler: In ''Safe Haven'' and entirely in ''Slumber Party Alien Abduction''. Possibly averted straight in ''A Ride in the Park'' since we see the father and his three children leave, but the fate of the other children that were at the party including the birthday girl is left unclear.]]

** [[spoiler: After all the people come kill themselves in Safe Heaven, they come back as violent thralls for the demon.]]
** [[spoiler: In Tape 49, its implied that tapes did this to the Ayesha, judging by her.....''movements'' after she attacks Larry.]]

*** [[spoiler: Especially if we [[CallForward remember]] ''The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily When She Was Younger'' [[CallForward from the first film]].]]
* {{Gorn}}: All of the shorts feature blood and guts to some degree, but ''A Ride in the Park'' and ''Safe Haven'' stand out. The former is very gory with lot of close-ups of zombies eating entrails, while the latter features multiple people getting stabbed or blowing their brains out, [[spoiler: to say nothing of the childbirth scenes]]. Also, [[spoiler: the ending of ''Tape 49'']].
* GrossUpCloseUp:

* ProductPlacement: iPhones make prominent appearances in ''Phase I Clinical Trials'' and ''A Ride in The Park.''.

* BrownNote: [[spoiler: What the tapes are meant to be.]]

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: At the end, Kyle, [[spoiler: the college kid the duo were meant to find, gives a thumbs up to the audience after he kills the other private detective.]]

** DownerEnding: [[spoiler: It doesn't work]].

* EatTheCamera: [[spoiler: A disturbingly literal version at the end.]]

* ForceFeeding: [[spoiler: The ghosts shove Herman's eye down his throat, presumably killing him.]]
* ForeShadowing: When Herman and Clarissa discuss the ghosts, Herman suggests removing his implant to get rid of them. Clarissa shoots this down, saying that it'll only keep Herman from seeing the ghosts instead of outright getting rid of them. At the end of the segment, [[spoiler: an insane Herman uses a straight razor to cut out the implant. Just as Clarissa said, this does nothing to help him, as the ghosts (now unseen to him) proceed to throttle him.]]

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: The ending, where Mike puts himself down after regaining his humanity. Although seeing how he was a mindless zombie, it may be difficult to actually classify him as a "villain".]]

* BirthdayEpisode: A little girl holds her birthday party during the zombie apocalypse, [[spoiler: [[{{Irony}} although she most likely died after blowing out her candles]]]].

* DyingAsYourself: [[spoiler: An undead Mike accidentally butt-dials his girlfriend, the sound of her voice seeming to reawaken some vestiges of humanity within him. Realizing his horrific state, he proceeds to grab a discarded shotgun and [[MercyKill put him]][[DrivenToSuicide self down.]]]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: At the end, the zombified Mike accidentally butt-dials his girlfriend. Hearing her voice prompts a moment of clarity within him, causing him to grab a nearby shotgun and blow his brains out.]]

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: [[spoiler: They can remember who they used to be. At the end, Mike becomes cognizant enough to recognize the voice of his girlfriend on his phone and, after realizing what he's become, kills himself.]]

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodSandwich: The birthday cake and barbecued burgers and hot dogs are abandoned when their potential eaters [[spoiler: run away to avoid getting eaten themselves]].

* AffablyEvil: Every bad guy, particularly Father and the man with the shotgun who requests that Adam (albeit aggressively) not to interrupt while he is about to blow the [[spoiler: {{Decoy Protagonist}}'s]] brains out. After completing the deed, he thanks Adam and [[spoiler: blows his own brains out]].

* ChestBurster: [[spoiler: A 9-foot tall goat/human hybrid demon (Baphomet?) bursts right out of his human mother's host body]]. What'd you expect?
* DarkMessiah: The leader of the cult, Father, is presented as this, as he goes on about how he and his flock will be lead to Heaven. [[spoiler: Not to mention the demon thing at the end...]]
* DeathByChildBirth: [[spoiler: Horrifically played straight, where a demonic goat-like creature bursts out of Lena, killing her.]]
* DecoyProtagonist: The story begins from the POV of Malik, the leader of the crew. [[spoiler: He is killed off by a cultist and the story shifts to the POV of Adam, his best friend and the guy who impregnated his fiancé.]]
* EvilSoundsDeep: [[spoiler: The demon.]]
--> [[spoiler: '''The Demon''': "Paaaapaaaaaa....."]]

* GodOfEvil: The cult worship one. [[spoiler: He goes on one hell of a rampage after he is born.]]

* LaughingMad: This is how [[spoiler: the tape winds up concluding, with Adam going insane when he learns that the demon is his child.]]

* NoNameGiven: While [[spoiler: the demon]] isn't named, it is [[spoiler: a goat/man hybrid, so it appears to be Baphomet]].

* {{Satan}}: Given that it sports [[spoiler: a goat head, horns and bat-like wings]], the demon is most likely [[spoiler: the devil himself]].

* ShirtlessScene: Father removes his shirt when [[spoiler: the "time of reckoning" commences. He also sports some nasty markings and scars all over his body.]]

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Gary, Randy, and Jen spend the first few minutes pranking and annoying each other, but once the aliens show up, they've got each others' backs. [[spoiler: [[DownerEnding Not that it matters in the end...]]]]

* TheGreys: The aliens resemble them, though they're much taller than the standard depiction. They look more like Greys crossed with [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Deep Ones]], actually, considering [[spoiler: their aquatic faculties]]. It's also rare in sci-fi that grey aliens are taller (let alone same height) than humans.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Zack, after arming himself with the brother's dad's shotgun, volunteers to go protect everyone, but he immediately gets captured. Later on, Jen sacrifices herself so that Gary and Tank can get away, though it's wasted when he's nevertheless captured moments later]].

* KickTheDog: The aliens literally do this. [[spoiler: It also crosses into ShootTheDog, as they're only interested in the humans, allowing poor [[IronicName Tank]] to drop from a good two-story height]].

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Tank's barking [[spoiler: helps the aliens spot the remaining humans]].

* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Gary screams this to Tank as [[spoiler: the aliens beam him onto their ship]].
* PoliceAreUseless: The cops that Jen called never arrive. The police lights in the woods that the teenagers encounter [[spoiler: turns out to be a trap set up by the aliens]]. Who knows where the real cops were while the kids were running through the woods getting chased by aliens?

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* DaylightHorror: The most horrific parts of ''A Ride in the Park'' and ''Safe Haven'' take place in the middle of the day.

* DisguisedHorrorStory: The segment starts off fairly lighthearted, with two brothers playing with their dog, having their friends come over for the titular slumber party, and pranking their older sister and her boyfriend with water guns and strobe lights [[spoiler: ...but then the aliens arrive.]]

* AlienAbduction: The aliens' motive for abducting the kids is never stated, though it could be because they intend to dissect them to study their biology.

* SurpriseCreepy: The segment starts off fairly lighthearted, with two brothers playing with their dog, having their friends come over for the titular slumber party, and pranking their older sister and her boyfriend with water guns and strobe lights [[spoiler: ...but then the aliens arrive.]]

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Jen and her boyfriend get back at Randy's earlier CoitusInterruptus by having Tank film him masturbating.

A SpinOff film expanding on ''Slumber Party Alien Invasion'', dubbed ''Film/KidsVsAliens'', was shown at Fantastic Fest in 2022 and is currently set for wide release on January 20, 2023. It is the second film to be based off of a single ''V/H/S'' segment, the first being ''Film/Siren2016''.