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

* OurGhostsAreDifferent: They're all around us, but rarely are people able to sense with them. When you can, the ghosts can tell, and the more you interact with them- i.e. even so much as ''look at them''- the more they can touch you. And they're not kind.

* DeathByChildBirth: [[spoiler: Horrifically played straight in where a demonic goat-like creature bursts out of a pregnant woman killing her.]]

* NoNameGiven: While the demon isn't named, it is a goat-man so it appears to be Baphomet.

* {{Satan}}: Given that it sports a goat head, horns and bat-like wings, the monster is most probably the devil himself.
** It bears a closer resemblance to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baphomet Baphomet]], a pagan deity often used to represent Satan

* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler:The cameraman's]] after [[spoiler:the knife is planted in his cranium]].

* DyingAsYourself: An undead Mike accidentally dials his girlfriend’s voice message and the sound of her voice seems to reawaken some vestiges of humanity within him. Realising his horrific state, he proceeds to grab a nearby discarded shotgun and [[MercyKill put him]][[DrivenToSuicide self down.]]]]

* FreeRangeChildren: The children see their parents' absence as a golden opportunity to run wild and have fun. Though their father did leave his gun behind at home, which Zack took up to bear arms against the aliens.

* TheSlacker: Jen has to be studying for an important exam that's either tomorrow or 2 days later, but she'd rather be swimming in a pier with her boyfriend and throwing a party at home with him.

* TheSlacker: It is said that Jen has to be studying for an important exam that's either tomorrow or 2 days later, but she'd rather be swimming in a pier with her boyfriend and throwing a party at home with him.

* EyeScream: Herman ends up cutting out his own eye. It only makes him unable to see what's attacking him.

* AlienAmongUs: One alien spied on the humans while hiding in the lake without being visible from the surface, indicating that alien has some camouflaging abilities.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: The siblings in 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...]]]]

* VillainProtagonist: Mike gets turned into a zombie and stays this till the end.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Zack after arming himself with his dad's shotgun volunteers to go protect everyone, but fails and gets captured. Later on, Jen sacrifices herself in so that Gary and Tank can get away, though it's wasted when he's nevertheless captured moments later]].
* IdiotBall: The teens using a dog instead of one of their own heads to record videos with the [=GoPro=] didn't turn out to be such a good idea since the dog couldn't warn them about an alien hiding in their lake which got caught on camera.

* AffablyEvil: Every bad guy but particularly The Father and the man with the shotgun who requests Adam (albeist somewhat aggressively) not to interrupt while he is about to blow the [[Spoiler:DecoyProtagnoist 's]] brains out. After completing the deed, he thanks Adam and [[spoiler: blows his own brains out]].

* CrazyPrepared: Apparently [[DeepSouth one guy with a trucker hat]] came to a little girl's birthday party with a ''double-barrel shotgun''. The zombies staged a surprise attack on the party.

* TeensAreMonsters: The human protagonists are teens and children who enjoy pleasure at the expense of each others' misery and humiliation through cruel pranks and retaliatory pranks.

* MadeOfIron: Mike as a zombie is able to endure two baseball bat swings, a pitchfork and a bullet. Somehow even the camera survives all that abuse.

* WouldHurtAChild: Zombie Mike tries to grab and eat little girls because they were the slowest prey.

* GreyAndBlackMorality: The characters aren't considered saints but the movie at least would put an effort in making the viewer feel some sympathy for them. Especially when they're literally fighting for their lives against forces far more sinister than they've ever witnessed.

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* LoweredMonsterDifficulty: The aliens, which were initially shown to aptly strike at lightning speeds, walk and crawl towards the children at the pace of the dead in the subsequent scene.

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

* AffablyEvil: Every bad guy but particularly The Father and the man with the shotgun who requests the hero not to interrupt while he is about to blow a guy's brains out. After completing the deed, he thanks the hero and [[spoiler: blows his own brains out]].

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

* LudicrousGibs: [[spoiler: The Father in explodes into this]].

The film has received mostly positive reviews from critics who praised the clever irony and human melodrama in each segment (especially "Slumber Party Alien Abduction" which had immature, {{jerkass}} teenagers banding together against aliens). Less enthusiastic critics complained they didn't pick up on any irony and character development. In contrast, the first V/H/S movie earned mixed reviews and critics saw the sequel as an improvement.

* AlienAbduction: The aliens' motive for doing so is never stated, though it could be because they intended humans for dissection and autopsy to study their biology. Or then again, they might be just incredibly hostile.

* AlienAmongUs: One alien spied on the humans in the lake without being visible from the surface. He's the first alien to show up on-camera, but the humans fail to notice him as their dog recorded and saw that alien.

The film has received mostly positive reviews from critics who praised the clever irony and human melodrama in each segment (especially "Slumber Party Alien Abduction" which had immature, {{jerkass}} teenagers banding together against aliens). Negative reviews came from those who complained they didn't pick up on any irony and character development. In contrast, the first V/H/S movie earned mixed reviews and critics saw the sequel as an improvement.

The film has received positive reviews from critics who praised the clever irony and human melodrama in each segment (especially "Slumber Party Alien Abduction" which had immature, {{jerkass}} teenagers banding together against aliens). Negative reviews came from critics who complained they didn't pick up on any irony and character development. In contrast, the first V/H/S movie earned mixed reviews and critics saw the sequel as an improvement.

The film has received positive reviews from critics who praised the clever irony and human melodrama in each segment (especially "Slumber Party Alien Abduction" which had immature, {{jerkass}} teenagers banding together against aliens). Negative reviews came from critics who complained the violence, bloody gore and scares overshadowed the melodrama ''or'' they didn't pick up on any irony and character development. In contrast, the first V/H/S movie earned mixed reviews and critics saw the sequel as an improvement.

* ContinuityNod: One of the VHS tapes played in Tape 49 is from the previous film's wraparound segment Tape 56.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: At the end of Tape 49, [[spoiler: The college kid gives a thumbs up to the audience after he kills the other private detective.]]
* TakeThatMe: While investigating the house of the missing college kid one of the detectives saw a video footage of the thugs from the first movie mugging a woman in the parking lot. Her disgusted reaction to the tape mirrors how the viewers of the first movie must have reacted and how unlikable the thugs look to the casual viewer.

* MeaningfulName: As pointed out in the commentary track, the two main characters in ''Phase I Critical Trials'' both have meaningful names that are {{Stealth Pun}}s on LiveActionTV shows from TheNineties: Clarissa delivers a lot of {{Exposition}} about the supernatural elements, so it can be said that she [[Series/ClarissaExplainsItAll "explains it all"]]. Herman's ocular implant causes him to be able to sense ghosts, so the problem is [[Series/HermansHead all in his head]].

* AffablyEvil: Every bad guy in ''Safe Haven'' but particularly The Father and the man with the shotgun who requests the hero not to interrupt while he is about to blow a guy's brains out. After completing the deed, he thanks the hero and [[spoiler: blows his own brains out]].
* ApocalypseCult: The cultists in ''Safe Haven''.

* DarkMessiah: The leader of the cult in Safe Haven 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 in ''Safe Haven'' where a demonic goat-like creature bursts out of a pregnant woman killing her.]]
* DecoyProtagonist: In ''Safe Haven'', the story begins from the POV of the producer of the news channel. [[spoiler: He is killed off and story shifts to a different POV.]]
* EvilSoundsDeep: [[spoiler: The demon at the end of Safe Haven.]]

* GoMadFromTheRevelation: [[spoiler:Adam from "Safe Haven" loses his mind after hearing the demon call him "Papa", and he starts LaughingMad.]]
* GodOfEvil: The cult in Safe Haven worship one. [[spoiler: He's brought out in the segment and goes on one hell of a rampage.]]
* HopeSpot: At the end of "Safe Haven", [[spoiler:Adam manages to get in his car and quickly drive away from the cult's location. Cue demon randomly appearing and flipping the car off the road...]]
* LaughingMad: This is how [[spoiler: "Safe Haven" winds up concluding]].
* LudicrousGibs: [[spoiler: The Father in "Safe Haven" explodes into this]].

* {{Satan}}: Given that it sports a goat head, horns and bat-like wings, the monster at the end of ''Safe Haven'' is most probably the devil himself.

* ShirtlessScene: The Father in Safe Haven when [[spoiler: the god is about to come out. He also sports some nasty markings and scars all over his body.]]
* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler:The cameraman's]] from "Safe Haven," after [[spoiler:the knife is planted in his cranium]].
* YourCheatingHeart: This is actually a major plot point in [[spoiler:"Safe Haven"]].

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: The siblings in ''Slumber Party Alien Abduction'' 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...]]]]

* CoitusInterruptus: Jen's brothers prank her by interrupting her having sex with her boyfriend in ''Slumber Party Alien Abduction.''
* ADateWithRosiePalms: In ''Slumber Party Alien Abduction'', Jen and her boyfriend get back at Randy's earlier CoitusInterruptus by having Tank film him masturbating.
* TheGreys: The aliens in "Slumber Party Alien Abduction" look like this, though much more taller than the standard depiction. They look 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.

* KickTheDog: The Greys in "Slumber Party Alien Abduction" 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]].

* LoweredMonsterDifficulty: The aliens in "Slumber Party Alien Abduction", which were initially shown to aptly strike at lightning speeds, walk and crawl towards the children at the pace of the dead in the subsequent scene.

* OffTheShelfFX: In "Slumber Party Alien Abduction", the shots from the dog's point of view are achieved with a camera attached to an Series/{{Alf}} doll: Since all you see of the dog stand-in is a pair of furry ears, this isn't too obvious.
* PoliceAreUseless: The cops that Jen called in ''Slumber Party Alien Abduction'' never arrive. The police siren and lights going off 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.

* TeensAreMonsters: In the "Alien Abduction" segment, the human protagonists are teens and children who enjoy pleasure at the expense of each others' misery and humiliation through cruel pranks and retaliatory pranks.

The film has received positive reviews from critics who praised the clever irony and human melodrama in each segment (especially "Slumber Party Alien Abduction" which had immature, {{jerkass}} teenagers banding together against aliens). In contrast, the first V/H/S movie earned mixed reviews and critics saw the sequel as an improvement.

A bike rider who runs into the middle of an unexplained zombie apocalypse in the park gets bitten by a zombie and turns into one. He then becomes a crucial catalyst of the apocalypse.
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: The ending of "A Ride in the Park". Although seeing how he was a zombie, it may be difficult to actually classify him as a "villain".]]
* BirthdayEpisode: "A Ride in the Park" is this to a little girl, [[spoiler: [[{{Irony}} although she most likely died after blowing out her cake candles]]]].

* BoomHeadshot: A guy with a shotgun manages to headshot a few zombies before he's tackled from behind and eaten in "A Ride in The Park".
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Mike, in "A Ride In The Park" winds up blowing his brains out]] due to EvenEvilHasLovedOnes.
* DyingAsYourself: [[spoiler: In '' A Ride In The Park'', an undead Mike accidentally dials his girlfriend’s voice message and the sound of her voice seems to reawaken some vestiges of humanity within him. Realising his horrific state, he proceeds to grab a nearby discarded shotgun and [[MercyKill put him]][[DrivenToSuicide self down.]]]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: "A Ride In the Park" showcases this at the end, when Mike accidentally butt-dials his girlfriend. This prompts a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment in the now-zombified Mike, causing him to grab a nearby shotgun and blow his brains out.]]
* EyeScream: The protagonist of [[spoiler: "A Ride In the Park" gets a barbecue-fork in the eye when attacking a parent.]]

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: [[spoiler:At the end of "A Ride in the Park", the bicyclist becomes cognizant enough to recognize the voice of his girlfriend on his phone and kills himself.]]
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodSandwich: In "A Ride in the Park", the birthday cake and barbecued burgers and hot dogs got abandoned when their potential eaters [[spoiler: ran away to avoid getting eaten themselves]].
* VillainProtagonist: In ''A Ride in the Park'', the protagonist gets turned into a zombie and stays this till the end.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Twice in "A Ride in the Park", just before the cyclist (and the person who inevitably bites him) transform into zombies.
* ZombieApocalypse: Featured in "A Ride in the Park".

* AliensAreBastards: Being aliens, their morality and ideology is probably colder and harsher than that of humans.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Jen sacrifices herself in ''Slumber Party Alien Abduction'' so that Gary and Tank can get away, though it's wasted when he's nevertheless captured moments later.]]
* IdiotBall: The teens using a dog instead of one of their own heads to record videos with the GoPro didn't turn out to be such a good idea since the dog couldn't warn them about an alien hiding in their lake which got caught on camera.