It starts to rain and when they finally go to open the door it won't budge. Everything they try fails including smashing a window, it's like the rain won't let them leave.
They settle in and start exchanging messages with their neighbours but nobody has any telephone or Internet service so they've no idea what's going on.
Days turn to weeks and they start to realise there's something in the rain.
We see people of all levels of that war machine, from those in the radar stations to bomber pilots, White House and Pentagon staff and eventually the POTUS react and deliberate over a response.
CW: suicide
The linking piece, "Diet Phantasma", is fun but a lot of the time I found myself looking at my phone in a "are we there yet" way. The surreal candy based piece "Fun Size" is the only one that's inventive. Partying twentysomethings breaking into the the wrong spooky location in "Ut Supra Sic Infra" is played most serious of the lot, to its benefit, and "Home Haunt" makes the most of the theme but "Coochie Coochie Coo" and "Kidprint" are tiresome as fuck and kind of offensive.
Is not the worst of the V/H/S anthologies but it's close to it 4/10.
Now decades later that drone/VR technology has evolved so that people can become couch potatoes indulging in VR fantasies while using a fraction of their mind to do everyday labour, taking the place of the robots.
One day, orphan Michelle (Millie Bobby Brown) finds a fugitive robot in her backyard. It is in the form of Cosmo: a cartoon robot beloved by her younger brother who died around the time of the uprising. Through its rudimentary vocabulary of cartoon phrases it manages to persuade her that somehow it is him and that it needs her help.
As the end approaches after very little drama beyond some relationship tensions suddenly things start to go wrong yet they convince themselves this is just an effort to make them forgo the prize.
No good will come of this.
The pair may be about to divorce and Prisca has had a health scare, things are uncertain and they want the kids to "make some memories".
Once they are settled in, the hotel manager offers them a trip to a private beach.
No good will come of this.
CW: body horror
Again this one's a mixed bag of shakycam dross only really livened up by Timo Tjahjanto's "Safe Haven" where a group of journalists go to the compound run by a cult intending to confront them but end up experiencing the great day the cult have been waiting for.
Even this segment massively outstays its welcome when general creepiness gives way to absolute mayhem that as much it's bloodily inventive just goes on too long.
Loud, irritating trash 4/10.
I can see what they were trying for but most of the sections were just awful: loud broskis hooting and hollering and letching at women until some slasher movie type violence happens.
Notable for its weirdness is "The sick thing that happened to Emily when she was younger" which I needed to read the synopsis for to actually follow but is again a bit letchy and misogynistic. Least unpleasant is "10/31/99" where a bunch of loud guys (of course) are looking for a Halloween party but end up at something else entirely. The entry from Ti West, "Second Honeymoon", is interesting but far far too long to get to where its going and again very "women are evil".
Don't bother 4/10. Do I bother with any of the others? The shakycam alone is a massive turnoff and I'm usually quite tolerant of it but the whole tone of this was cynically misogynistic.
No good will come of this.
Meanwhile Black Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) is scouring the globe for lost Atlantean technology with which to build his dreams of conquest. When they stumble across a cache of artefacts older than even Atlantis a Black Trident calls out to him. No good will come of this.
No good will come of this.
No good will come of this.
When his wife dies during a Geurilla attack in the Boer War, The Duke of Oxford (Ralph Fiennes) vows his young son will never have to endure another war. To this end, along with his butler Shola (Djimon Hounsou) and the family nanny Polly (Gemma Arterton) he forms a spy network trying to influence things.
However another shadowy figure is tugging on those same strings and hoping for the opposite result.
Shenanigans ensue.
They are wrong. Noble lives and the Dreadnought "The King's Gaze" will be upon them in five days.
No good will come of this.
In the meantime he has killed and stands trial for murder but the Warrens suggest a novel defence: "Not guilty by reason of Demonic possession".
CW: suicide
An unnamed representative of the church (Donald Pleasance) contacts Professor of Physics Howard Birack (Victor Wong) to help. It seems this artefact contains the very physical essence of evil, perhaps the devil himself and if it is physical it can be studied, quantified and contained.
Birack gathers a multidisciplinary team of researchers who set up in the church but withholds from them what it is they are there to study.
No good will come of this.
CW: some 80s sexism, insect swarms and an awful moustache
Nobody expects that a chance encounter the previous night will cause things to go very wrong.
CW: violence and Sharlto Copley being very leery
In the very first hour they pick a fight with a black clad gunslinger (Yul Brinner).
No good will come of this.
Scientist Dr. Ernest Hubbs (Nigel Davenport) organises a project to study them and if necessary destroy them as he considers this to be a great threat to humanity.
Recruiting mathematician/information theorist James Lesko (Michael Murphy) they set up a sealed lab adjacent to the colony and begin a battle of wills with the emerging intelligence.