History Film / VHS94

''V/H/S/94'' is a 2021 FoundFootage {{anthology}} film featuring segments directed by franchise returnees Simon Barrett and Timo Tjahjanto, in addition to newcomers Jennifer Reeder, Ryan Prows and Chloe Okun. It follows 2012's ''[[{{Film/VHS}} V/H/S]]'', 2013's ''[[Film/VHS2 V/H/S/2]]'' and 2014's ''Film/VHSViral'', acting as a prequel/reboot to those films. A fifth entry, ''[[Film/VHS99 V/H/S/99]]'', is set to debut on Shudder October 20, 2022 and a sixth film, ''V/H/S/85'', is slated to release sometime in 2023.

* MadScientist: Dr. Suhendra has all the obvious traits - unkempt hair, crazed eyes, ranting to himself, builds messy cyborgs out of unwilling test subjects, rants about [[TheyCalledMeMad his colleagues in the scientific community being imbeciles]], etc.

--> '''Holly:''' [[spoiler:And in sports news, Ohio State plays the Indian Hoosiers tomorrow night. Good luck to our Buckeyes. I'm Holly Marciano, Channel 6 News. Hail Raatma!]]

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Hailey ditches her shoes as the hours slowly crawl.

* ElectronicSpeechImpediment: Subject 99's vocalizations have an echoing, stuttering sound to them.

In the year 1994, a SWAT team unit raids a supposed drug lab only to find a sinister cult compound whose collection of pre-recorded material uncovers a nightmarish conspiracy. Upon searching, they find multiple horrifying cassettes:

* ''The Empty Wake'': Hailey, the new hire at a local funeral home, is assigned to host the wake of a man named Andrew Edwards. After a long while of nothing happening, Hailey begins hearing noises coming from inside the casket, possibly signifying that Andrew may be alive. What's worse, a massive storm is brewing and the funeral home is chained up tight, leaving her with no possible way to escape as Andrew's reanimated corpse attacks her.
* ''The Subject'': In Indonesia, MadScientist James Suhendra has been aspiring to create a functioning human/robot hybrid, using kidnapped citizens as guinea pigs. He manages to successfully create two cyborgs: the hostile and mindless Subject 98, and the scared and docile Subject 99 (referred to by the initials S.A. on a news report). When a squad of militarized police break in and murder James, Subject 99 manages to break free of her containment and seeks a way to escape the lab, all the while evading Subject 98, and the police officers who consider her a threat.
* ''Terror'': The First Patriots Movement Militia, a group of extremist rednecks, are plotting to blow up a local government building in a ploy to "purge evil from America". The secret weapon for their plan is revealed to be a captured vampire, who is regularly shot in the head and has his blood siphoned by the group, the creature's blood revealed to be explosive when exposed to sunlight. While celebrating a successful test of the vampire's exploding blood, the group get drunk and accidentally release the vampire, and thus must work together to recapture it before it escapes.

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:Petro and Nash succeed in killing off their entire team on film, even anticipating what they're going to call their latest work.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler: Despite being members of a SnuffFilm fetishist cult, Petro and Nash chide Slater for his involvement with the white-supremicist organisation in "Terror". with it being implied that it's this that's led them to make him the star of their latest project.]]

* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Petro and Nash, two members of the SWAT team, are revealed to be heavily involved in a SnuffFilm cult, having lured their team to kill them on camera for their latest masterpiece.]]

* ActorAllusion: It's [[Series/TheExpanse not the first time]] Anna Hopkins has played an IntrepidReporter.

* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler:Raatma]] can ''barely'' be called humanoid, with a nightmarishly elongated head, acidic vomit and an apparent influence over its devotees. [[WordOfGod As per Chloe Okuno]], it's of extradimensional origin and [[NonMaliciousMonster may not even necessarily be malicious]] so much as it is something that does not belong in this world, is not reacting well to its new surroundings, and happens to react to its discomfort in a way that has horrific consequences.
* GoryDiscretionShot: [[spoiler:What Raatma’s BadBlackBarf does to Jeff isn’t shown in full detail due to the low light. But this is subverted '''hard''' in the ending when Holly's co-anchor gets a face-full of it, in bright lighting.]]
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: [[spoiler:Whatever Raatma’s cult did to Holly, it turned her into one of these, causing her to barely bat an eyelash at melting off her co-anchor’s face.]]

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[spoiler:A tornado apparently kills the zombie, but Hayley becomes one in the end and shambles out of the funeral home.]]
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:Andrew and Gustav were clearly conspiring to give Andrew a new vessel, and they succeeded.]]

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Destroying the brain clearly doesn't have an effect, for one thing, and its body parts are individually functional even when separated.

* ActionGirl: Subject 99 after having TookALevelInBadass.
* ArmCannon: Subject 99 has a modular arm cannon, which she uses to defend herself during the final sequence.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: The male subject has giant blades for arms, which he uses to bisect and decapitate the policemen.
* BodyHorror: All of the test subjects. Among the menagerie are a human head with robotic spider legs, [[spoiler:a man with a camera-mounted skull for a head and a sword for an arm (Subject 98), a woman with her head from the lower jaw up replaced with cameras and speakers and her hand removed so a modular arm cannon can be attached (Subject 99), and a woman who was still in the middle of roboticization (while conscious) who had most of her entrails replaced with machinery and an arm and foot removed]].

* DarkIsNotEvil: In spite of her deformed appearance and being treated with nothing but contempt by the SWAT team who were supposed to rescue her, Subject 99 is really a TragicMonster and a NonMaliciousMonster who is as much a victim as the other subjects.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: The commander proves himself as a KillerCop who is bloodthirsty as the MadScientist, taking too much zealous joy in taking down Subject 99 and even LaughingMad (though it could be excuse as him having GoMadFromTheRevelation following having battling Subject 98 and how his team became a DwindlingParty as he was AFatherToHisMen), prompting the TokenGoodTeammate of his team to take him down like a mad dog.
* HeroAntagonist: The SWAT team.

* ItIsDehumanizing: The commander refers to Subject 99 as "it" due to her WasOnceAMan state.
* MadScientist: Dr. Suhendra has all the obvious traits - crazy hair, crazy eyes, rants to himself, builds messy cyborgs out of unwilling test subjects, rants about [[TheyCalledMeMad his colleagues in the scientific community being imbeciles]].
* MercyKill: Subverted with the SWAT team in regards in their ultimate decision in killing Subject 99, though they treat her like another enemy then a victim. Played straight when Subject 99 discovered one of the other subjects on an operating table and shut off her life support to end her suffering.
* NonMaliciousMonster: Subject 99 only ever kills in self-defense, and even attempts to save the one policeman who showed her kindness from the much more violent male subject.
* NotQuiteDead: When the SWAT team first find Subject 99, they assume she's already dead, so her grabbing one of their arms comes as a shock to them. [[spoiler:Likewise, despite being heavily injured and her battery being dead, Subject 99 is seen shuffling off to parts unknown in the segment's final moments.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: Subject 99 after acquiring the ArmCannon.
* TragicMonster: The subjects who underwent UnwillingRoboticization would count.

* DirtyCop: Slater from "Holy Hell" provides weapons and ammunition to the militia.
* EvilIsNotAToy: What were the militia thinking that the supernatural creature can be controlled by them, especially when they eventually failed to proper maintain protocol thanks to their drunken celebration?
* HumanoidAbomination: The "metaphysical superweapon" the militia claims to have acquired is [[spoiler:a man who is seemingly immortal, whose blood explodes in contact with sunlight, and who turns into a toothy-mawed creature when they fail to kill him on schedule.]]

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The militia calls their "superweapon" that, and while it is unclear exactly what it is, it is a seemingly immortal man who grows a FlowerMouth that is [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily brimming with jagged fangs]] after sundown if he is still animate, and has blood that violently explodes when exposed to sunlight.

* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:The creature chains up Greg and then exposes itself to sunlight, obliterating both of them.]]
* TooDumbToLive: Not only do the militiamen decide to have a massive drunken party the night before their operation, failing to follow containment procedures for the creature as a result, but more of them die as a result of poor trigger discipline than are actually killed by the creature itself.

* WarriorPoet: The Commandant fancies himself this. [[SurroundedByIdiots Too bad he's surrounded by a bunch of lowbrow hicks]].

* WouldHurtAChild: Like Timothy [=McVeigh=], the militiamen are willing to set off their bombs in a building with a daycare.

''V/H/S/94'' is a 2021 FoundFootage {{anthology}} film featuring segments directed by franchise returnees Simon Barrett and Timo Tjahjanto, in addition to newcomers Jennifer Reeder, Ryan Prows and Chloe Okun. It follows 2012's ''[[{{Film/VHS}} V/H/S]]'', 2013's ''[[Film/VHS2 V/H/S/2]]'' and 2014's ''Film/VHSViral'', acting as a prequel/reboot to those films. A fifth entry, ''[[Film/VHS99 V/H/S/99]]'', is set to debut on Shudder October 20, 2022.

''V/H/S/94'' is a 2021 FoundFootage {{anthology}} film featuring segments directed by franchise returnees Simon Barrett and Timo Tjahjanto, in addition to newcomers Jennifer Reeder, Ryan Prows and Chloe Okun. It follows 2012's ''{{Film/VHS}}'', 2013's ''[[Film/VHS2 V/H/S/2]]'' and 2014's ''Film/VHSViral'', acting as a prequel/reboot to those films. A fifth entry, ''[[Film/VHS99 V/H/S/99]]'', is set to debut on Shudder October 20, 2022.

''V/H/S/94'' is a 2021 FoundFootage {{anthology}} film featuring segments directed by franchise returnees Simon Barrett and Timo Tjahjanto, in addition to newcomers Jennifer Reeder, Ryan Prows and Chloe Okun. It follows 2012's ''{{Film/VHS}}'', 2013's ''[[Film/VHS2 V/H/S/2]]'' and 2014's ''Film/VHSViral'', acting as a prequel/reboot to those films. A fifth entry, ''Film/VHS99'', is set to debut on Shudder October 20, 2022.

''V/H/S/94'' is a 2021 FoundFootage {{anthology}} film featuring segments directed by franchise returnees Simon Barrett and Timo Tjahjanto, in addition to newcomers Jennifer Reeder, Ryan Prows and Chloe Okun. It follows 2012's ''{{Film/VHS}}'', 2013's ''[[Film/VHS2 V/H/S/2]]'' and 2014's ''Film/VHSViral'', acting as a prequel/reboot to those films.

* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:You know that creepy preacher who was interviewed for only a few seconds at the beginning? Well, he's the one leading the cult of Raatma.]]

* GoryDiscretionShot: [[spoiler:What Raatma’s BadBlackBarf does to Jeff isn’t shown in full detail due to the low light. It is then gruesomely subverted in the broadcast towards the end.]]

* InspectorJavert: The SWAT team's commander.

* CrapsackWorld: Moreso than the previous entries, all of the individual tapes all directly contribute to the overreaching narrative; meaning the world explicitly plays host to mutliple cults, [[spoiler: vampires]], [[spoiler: zombies]], and biopunk mad scientists to name a few.

* ChasterAndTamer: Unlike previous entries, this one features absolutely no sexual content; and the only nudity is brief and as far from titilating as possible.

* ''The Empty Wake'': Hailey, the new hire at a local funeral home, is assigned to host the wake of a man named Andrew Edwards. After a long while of nothing happening, Hailey begins hearing noises coming from inside the casket, possibly signifying that Andrew may be alive. What's worse, a massive storm is brewing and the funeral home is chained up tight, leaving her with no possible way to escape.

In the year 1994, a SWAT team unit raids a supposed drug lab only to find a sinister cult compound whose collection of pre-recorded material uncovers a nightmarish conspiracy. Upon searching, they find multiple horrifying cassettes: a young woman's recording of an overnight wake; a news reporter and her cameraman's search for an urban legend who dwells inside a storm drain; a mad scientist's attempt at creating a biomechanical creature, and a violent militia who discovers a supernatural weapon that will serve their mission of overthrowing the U.S. government.

* ShoutOut: Dr. Suhendra refers to his cyborgs as "[[Anime/NeoHumanCasshern Neo-Humans]]".

* LaughablyEvil: The RightWingMilitiaFanatic militia can be viewed as this for being a StupidEvil ragtag bunch of hillbilly morons.

* WarriorPoet: The Commandant fancies himself this. Too bad he's surrounded by a bunch of lowbrow hicks.

* CrapsackWorld: Moreso than the previous entries, all of the individual tapes all directly contribute to the overreaching narrative; meaning the world explicitly plays host to mutliple cults, [[spoiler: vampires]], [[spoiler: zombies]] and biopunk mad scientists to name a few.

* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Petro and Nash, two members of the SWAT team, are revealed to be heavily involved in a snuff film cult, having lured their team to kill them on camera for their latest masterpiece.]]

* BodyHorror: All of the test subjects. Among the menagerie are [[spoiler: a human head with robotic spider legs, a man with a camera-mounted skull for a head and a sword for an arm (Subject 98), a woman with her head from the lower jaw up replaced with cameras and speakers and her hand removed so a modular arm cannon can be attached (Subject 99), and a woman who was still in the middle of roboticization (while conscious) who had most of her entrails replaced with machinery and an arm and foot removed.]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: In spite of her deformed appearance and being treated with nothing but contempt by the SWAT team who were supposed to rescue her, Subject 99 is really a TragicMonster and a NonMaliciousMonster who is much of a victim as the other subjects.

* MadScientist: Dr. Suhendra has all the obvious traits - crazy hair, crazy eyes, rants to himself, builds messy cyborgs out of unwilling test subjects, rants about his colleagues in the scientific community being imbeciles.

* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: Despite being heavily injured and her battery being dead, Subject 99 is seen shuffling off to parts unknown in the segment's final moments.]]
** When the SWAT team first find Subject 99 they assume she's already dead, so her grabbing one of their arms comes as a shock to them.

* RightWingMilitiaFanatic: The {{Villain Protagonist}}s.

* VillainProtagonist: The RightWingMilitiaFanatic militia.

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