V/H/S/2

V/H/S/2
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Directed by	Simon Barrett (Tape 49) Adam Wingard (Clinical Trials) Eduardo Sánchez (A Ride in the Park) Gregg Hale (A Ride in the Park) Gareth Huw Evans (Safe Haven) Timo Tjahjanto (Safe Haven) Jason Eisener (Alien Abduction Slumber Party)
Written by	Simon Barrett Jamie Nash Timo Tjahjanto Gareth Huw Evans John Davies
Produced by	Roxanne Benjamin Gary Binkow Kyle David Crosby Brad Miska Jamie Nash
Starring	Lawrence Michael Levine Kelsy Abbott
Cinematography	Tarin Anderson Stephen Scott Seamus Tierney Jeff Wheaton
Production companies	Bloody Disgusting The Collective
Distributed by	Magnet Releasing
Release dates	January 19, 2013 (2013-01-19) (Sundance) July 12, 2013 (2013-07-12) (United States)
Running time	96 minutes
Countries	United States Canada Indonesia
Languages	English Indonesian

V/H/S/2 (originally titled S-VHS) is a 2013 American anthology horror film. It features a series of found-footage shorts. It is the sequel to the film V/H/S.

The film was rushed into production in late 2012, and debuted at Park City’s Library Center Theatre on Saturday, January 19, as part of Sundance 2013, much like its predecessor. The sequel involves a largely different group of directors: Jason Eisener, Gareth Evans, Timo Tjahjanto, Eduardo Sánchez and Gregg Hale, and franchise returnees Simon Barrett and Adam Wingard.

The film currently has a VOD release date set for June 6, as well as a theatrical release date set for July 12.

Synopsis

Tape 49/frame narrative

This story follows two private investigators (a man named Larry and a woman named Ayesha) as they investigate the disappearance of a young male college student. Upon entering the student's home, they discover a large stack of T.V. sets and VHS tapes, similar to the first film, and a laptop with a still recording video on it. Among the tapes, playing on the screen when they walk in, is the wrap around story from the first film. They stop the recording and go back to the beginning where they see the boy talking about the VHS tapes and how strange they are. The man says that he'll go investigate the house and tells Ayesha to watch the tapes and look for clues. After watching the first tape (Phase I Clinical Trials) she calls Larry back into the room and tells him about the tape, she disbelieves the legitimacy of the tape being real. They watch the student on the computer again and he mentions that the tapes need to be watched in correct sequence "to affect you." They pay no attention to the video and quickly mute it. Larry decides to go back and look through the student's journals again and Ayesha picks up another tape and puts it into the VCR (A Ride in the Park). After the tape Larry comes back into the room to find Ayesha asleep and with her nose bleeding sitting in front of the TV sets. After waking her up she says she must have fallen asleep watching the tape and she has a migraine. Ayesha asks Larry to go get medicine from a drug store nearby because she doesn't feel like moving, she seems visibly ill. She plays another tape after he leaves (Safe Haven). Upon Larry's return, he finds Ayesha dead on the floor. He sobs and cradles her body, then he finds a VHS tape with the word "WATCH" written on it in lipstick. He puts the tape in the VCR and watches it (Slumber Party Alien Abduction). Afterward confused he watches the rest of the boy's laptop recording, making sure to get it all on camera. The boy goes on about how the tapes mess with your mind and how he's going to make a tape of his own. He then pulls a gun out from somewhere off screen, proceeds to put it under his chin and pulls the trigger. The boy's body sits there for a moment, then he stands up and shuffles out of the room with his jaws and mandible blown off. As he hides in a back room, the two investigators (Larry & Ayesha) make their entry into the house and stop the recording video on the laptop. All of a sudden, Ayesha seemingly comes back to life and attempts to strangle her boyfriend. Larry struggles with her and suddnely breaks her neck. He takes the camera and goes runs out the room, running from his apparent undead girlfriend who crawls fast on the floor after him. He goes into a closet and closes the door leaving it open just enough to aim his pistol out the door. Ayesha briefly pokes her head in and is subsequently shot being unclear to the viewer whether she is really dead or not. Unaware to the private investigator he comes to find that with him in the closet is the hiding undead college kid. As the two struggle, the undead college kid easily breaks the private investigator's neck. Then he takes the camera, focuses it on his damaged face, and, heavily breathing, gives a thumbs-up. The movie cuts to a VHS tape style blue background with the movie's title displayed on it.

Phase I Clinical Trials

A man is sitting in a doctor's office and the doctor is examining his camera and asking him how it is working. When he pulls a mirror up in front of it, we can see that he's referring to the man's eye, which has been installed with a camera after a car accident took his sight in this eye. The doctor informs the man that it will take some getting used to and that everything will be recorded and monitored for research purposes. The man, hesitant, asks about "private time" and if there was a way to turn the recording off. The doctor says that there was no way to turn it off, and that having his private time monitored was a small price to pay for a government grant giving him his eyesight back. On that note, the man agrees and leaves the office. On his way out of the clinic, he sees a woman entering the building. She stares at him intently as she passes him. Back in his house, the man goes about his daily activities as he prepares to go to bed. Upon entering his room, however, he sees that instead of neatly laid out sheets atop his bed, what appears to be a bloody body is laying beneath his sheets. He screams profanities in shock, then proceeds to call out to the person in his bed. When nobody answers, he cautiously steps forward, puts a hand on the sheet, and pulls it away to reveal a smooth, well-made bed underneath without the slightest trace of disturbance. The man jumps back, then goes to the bathroom to wash his face and give himself a pep-talk and tell himself he's just going crazy. When he turns back to his room, the body has returned and a man a small girl are standing in his room. He screams and runs back into the bathroom just as the man advances upon him. He closes and locks the bathroom door, but banging and crashing can be heard on the other side. He screams and hides in his tub, where he spends the rest of the night. At dawn, he wakes up and immediately calls the doctor. When he can't get through, he leaves a message about his hallucinations, then hangs up. Hesitantly, he opens the door and sees that everything in his room is back to normal, then he goes about his day. Outside, as he's taking his trash out, a woman calls him from the gate. It is the same woman from the hospital. She insists she has to talk to him and asks him if weird things have started happening. This is enough for him to let her into his house to explain what's going on. She tells him that she was the recipient of a cochlear implant and shortly after the operation she began to hear strange things. She learned that the electronic equipment could catch the happenings of another world - ghosts as it were. While she explains this, a man appears to be standing behind her. The guy tells her about the man he's seeing and describes him. She calmly nods and says that she knows he's there and that he's her uncle who died several years prior. Her uncle then looks at the guy menacingly and the woman tells him not to pay any attention to "them." She says that the more attention they get, the stronger and more dangerous they become. If he doesn't pay them any mind, they will go away. As she's saying this, her uncle appears closer than before and our guy starts to freak out. She tells him to calm down, and when he can't, she approaches him, takes her shirt off revealing her bare breasts, and begins to passionately kiss him and insisting that he concentrate on her. Clothes fly and the sex is enough to draw his attention away from the otherworldly beings. Later that night, as she sleeps on his couch, he stands up and goes back to his bathroom. He tells the camera in his eye that he wants a DVD of what just happened. When he goes out of his bathroom, the body in his bed is back. He tries to calm himself but is unable to do so. From the other room, screams erupt. He runs to where the woman is and finds that she's been dragged from where she slept and is now being drowned in his pool just outside. He gets to her, but it is too late. He runs back into the house to his bedroom to call 911, but is greeted by the man standing in the hallway. Panicked, he runs to the kitchen and grabs a sharp cutting utensil, then bolts back into the bathroom where he then proceeds to remove the eye from its socket. When he's done so, he drops the eye on the counter and we can see him swinging wildly by the entity he can no longer see. The ghost-man picks up the eye from the counter, grabs the man forcefully, then shoves it deep down his throat. Here the film abruptly stops.

A Ride in the Park

This segment is shot entirely with a "Go Pro" camera mounted on a helmet.A man (the biker) is talking to his fiancee on his cell phone about how he just wanted to take his new bike for a quick spin around the park before they met their friends for breakfast. After the customary I-love-you's he hangs up and gets to biking. After a few twists and turns down the dirt path of the wooded state park, a woman jumps out from the brush into the middle of the road. She's covered in blood and has several nasty wounds and is screaming hysterically about her boyfriend. He jumps off his bike to help her, but by that point she collapses and vomits. He calls into the woods she just exited that the cops are right behind him. Instead of seeing her boyfriend or an attacker, he sees three growling people approaching them. Panicking, he tries to help her up to get her to safety, but she suddenly becomes feral and starts to bite and claw at him. The biker kills her before running from the zombie-like people following him. Injured, he finally falls in a clear patch of grass where he appears to lose consciousness. In the distance we see two bikers. Upon seeing the fallen man, they run to his aid and while one calls 911, the other checks his pulse. The biker begins to breath heavily, then reaches up and attacks the man trying to help him. He bites the man's neck while the woman on the phone tries to get him off. The biker then turns to the woman and starts eating her as well. Soon, the bikers are reanimated as zombies as well and the three of them stand and shuffle away into the woods. A chorus of "happy birthday" starts somewhere beyond the distant trees, and the three zombies, as well as others in the background, are attracted to the sound. On the other side of the tree line is a gazebo filled with children and parents. The zombies approach the people who don't notice them at first, but when a zombie on the other side of the gazebo bites into a man's neck, chaos ensues. One man pulls out a gun and others grab weapons, but most of them are quickly subdued. The biker chases a man who is piling children into a minivan before climbing in himself and taking off. The biker looks at his reflection in the window before being shot by the man with the gun. He gets up and walks towards the sound of a crying woman, but stops to pick up a fallen teddy bear. He is then hit and run over by a leaving SUV. The sound of a woman's voice is heard. The biker holds up his phone and the woman on the line is his fiancee he was talking to earlier. She calls his name a few times, then says that he must have pocket-dialed her. She tells him that she loves him, then hangs up. Upon hearing this, what was left of the biker's humanity is brought to the surface and he crawls toward a gun that had been dropped by one of the overrun party goers. The biker picks up the weapon, puts it in his mouth, then pulls the trigger. The helmet and camera fly up in the air before landing next to what's left of the biker's skull.

Safe Haven

A news crew goes into a Indonesian cult to report on the goings on. The whole segment is filmed through either the documentary cameras or hidden cameras on buttons of the crew's shirts. Although it isn't directly said, it's alluded to that the "father" or founder of the cult sleeps with the children to "purify" them. The interview begins and shortly after the interviewer has to get another battery for the camera. While outside, he sees a conversation between his fiancee and his best friend, both of which are crew members, and finds out that she's pregnant with the other guy's baby. Meanwhile, inside, a bell begins to toll and the father starts talking about how it's "time." He gets on an intercom and tells everyone that they've reached the last leg of their journey and the time of reckoning has finally come. The camera guy interrupts the father and the father stabs him in the throat with a box cutter, covering his face with blood. He continues to talk on the intercom and, from the point of view of the fiancee, we see the women of the compound passing around pills and liquid. Downstairs, we see that the best friend has wandered into the room he was strictly told not to go. He finds a surgical room covered in blood and a woman, presumably dead, laying on a bed with her legs apart as if she were giving birth. He gets closer and she wakes up and starts screaming, which freaks him out and he runs away. When he gets back to where he should be, he sees that the school of children are now dead and he finds that the fiancee is being taken by the women toward the surgical birthing area. Outside, the man getting the battery sees on the monitor that his friends are in trouble and he runs inside to help. He bursts into a room where he sees men standing in a circle holding guns. The men proceed to shoot themselves. From another room, two men enter, one running as if he had frightened out of the suicide. Behind them a man wielding a shotgun enters and shoots him. The show host fights the man for the shotgun and shoots his head off, but is then stopped by three men with a shotgun. Downstairs the best friend runs after the fiancee, but is quickly stopped by an explosion from the room where she was taken to. From there, a deformed man-look-alike demon crawls out and quickly disappears. The guy then tries to go into the room but runs into the father who still lives and is covered in blood. The father spokes his last words after concluding a sort of satanic ritual and then blows up, spraying blood and flesh everywhere. Upon entering the room the guy finds the fiancee laying on the same bed he'd first seen the woman in. She screams about getting something out of her. He looks down and sees her stomach undulating as if there were something inside. Her stomach stretches until a claw finally rips through her belly. A large horned-head creature comes out the woman's stomach and starts howling and slaying everyone he encounters. The shocked man turns around and desperately runs out of the building. Behind him, he can hear devilish roars and menacing stomping sounds. Back into the main area, he sees the show host being held at gunpoint by one of the the cult leaders. The man threatens the friend to stay back, then turns to the host and shoots him in the head. The man then shoots himself in the head as well. A roar comes from behind him and the best friend, the only survivor, starts to run again. He sees that the people that killed themselves have now become zombie-like ghouls. Once outside, he runs towards a car, he starts it and tries to escape the compound. As he drives away, thick fog comes from behind his car and the demonic howls get closer. Something then hits the side of his car and rolls it over. Bloody and bruised, but still alive, the man crawls out of the car that's being stomped, but as he gets his head out the car window, he observes the horned beast on top of the car. We see a black goat's head atop a long neck and dragon wings in the background. The demonic creature grunts the word "Papa" to which the man starts laughing hysterically as he realizes that the beast is his "child". The camera cuts to black.

Slumber Party Alien Abduction

It starts out with a group of friends making videos with their camera attached to their dog. They play pranks on one of the boy's sisters and her friends, such as ruining her private time with her boyfriend and attacking them with water guns. When the boy with the camera goes underwater, a humanoid figure is seen reaching for the boy, but once the camera comes out of the water, nothing happens. Later that night, when the sister and her boyfriend are trying to get back at the boys for interrupting them while trying to have sex, the power goes out and an incredibly loud, train-like sound resonates through the house as lights flash all around. They see someone outside the windows and the boyfriend goes within the house to investigate with a shotgun, but is violently apprehended by an alien. Soon afterwards, we see a bunch of aliens attacking everyone else and taking them towards their space ship. Some of the kids manage to escape in the water and try to regroup. The film follows them through the woods and to a barn as they are each picked off and abducted. The film then shows us the last boy and the dog being lifted up from the top of the barn into the sky, the boy dropping the dog, and the dog falling to the ground. The camera falls off the dog as we see him severely injured and in pain. Finally, as the dog seems to stop breathing, the film ends.

External links

• Official website
• V/H/S/2 at IMDb