- Broken Base: The Dante the Great segment. Many people liked it for its originality, having a less serious tone than other segments in the series, culminating in a badass magic fight against the police that dropped the Found Footage format in favor of traditional film making techniques. Many others hated it precisely because it changed the formula so much, arguing that it had no place in a horror anthology and that if you're not taking advantage of the Found Footage format in an series known specifically for that, you may as well just make a normal movie.
- Ensemble Dark Horse: Parallel Monsters is the only segment that everybody liked, the rest fall under Broken Base.
- Gorgeous Vortex, even if it isn't Found Footage, is somewhat well-liked for its Surreal Horror aspects, and there are some people that wish it wasn't cut from the film.
- Funny Moments: In Bonestorm, a police helicopter eventually responds to the ensuing chaos... the pilot decides it's not worth getting involved.
- Also in Bonestorm, a skeleton inexplicably decides to flip the bird before being detonated by fireworks.
- Moment of Awesome:
- After three films of pretty much everybody dying, it's downright cathartic to see those skaters in Bonestorm kick the everlasting fuck out of an Apocalypse Cult and only lose one of their friends...oh, and their cameraman.
- The feats of real magic in Dante the Great include walking on walls, grabbing things and people from far way, puppetting a SWAT member into killing the others, and switching places with a man.
- In Vicious Circles, one of the sources for the footage is an amateur pornographer, who's filming a girl stripping for him in the back of a taxi... said girl pulls a gun on him and threatens to kill him. Why, you might ask? Well, her ex sold him revenge porn of her, which apparently ruined her life.
- Narm: From Parallel Monsters, the parallel dimension men's demon penises are just ridiculous and would be more at home in a crass horror parody. For that matter, the Satanic zeppelin is also hard to take seriously. Whether that's the segment's intention or not is up in the air.
- Everything about the Gangbangers from Vicious Circles.
- After everyone starts stabbing each other with forks at the party, the camera spins around to show a man and his dog, both with forks in their heads; neither seem to be particularly concerned about this.
- The skateboarders' inappropriately nonchalant attitude about most of what happens in Bonestorm.
- Narm Charm: "We're gonna go viral, we're gonna go viral, we're gonna go viral..."
- Nightmare Fuel: Now has its own page.
- Sequelitis: The first film in the series to earn largely negative reviews from both audiences and critics, though it's generally agreed that Parallel Monsters is top notch.
- They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: One of the biggest criticisms was that three of the segments (Vicious Circles, Dante The Great and Gorgeous Vortex) broke the Found Footage aesthetic, it doesn't help that Gorgeous Vortex was actually taken out because of this.
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