When a group of misfits are hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire a rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they bargained for.When a group of misfits are hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire a rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they bargained for.When a group of misfits are hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire a rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they bargained for.
- Awards
- 5 nominations
- Gary (segment "Tape 56")
- (as Calvin Reeder)
- Lisa (segment "Amateur Night")
- (as Jas Sams)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe brick house the three guys break into where all the VHS tapes are located is the same house from Marble Hornets, a found footage web series on YouTube that popularized Slender Man.
- GoofsOn "10/31/1998", one of the characters, the Soldier, was wearing digital camouflage pants. Digital camouflage did not come out until after 2001/02.
- Quotes
[Clint hears Lily whisper to him at the bar for the first time]
Clint: What?
[Lily talks without any sound]
Clint: I - I have no idea what you're saying. Why are you all alone?
[Clint finally gets his drinks he was waiting for]
Clint: Thanks, man.
Clint: Hey, you want to go meet some people over there?
Lily: [Lily silently whispers] I like you.
Clint: Well, I like you too. So, do you ever come here... before?
Lily: [Lily whispers quietly again] I like you.
Clint: Oh, okay.
- Alternate versionsThe 10/31/98 segment has an alternate ending, where the guys cheat death by escaping from their car. The scene is available on the U.S. home video release from Magnet/Magnolia Home Entertainment.
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- SoundtracksAin't It Bully
Written and Performed by Aristocrats
(segment "Amateur Night")
First of all every character in this movie is terrible. They're either perverted frat boy assholes or completely void of personality. They're not the kind of characters you can't wait to be killed, they're the kind of characters you can't wait to stop listening to. I know there's no time to really flesh out any characters in an anthology, but you can at least give them a personality, these guys are just boring, boring, boring.
The plot of most of these shorts are only possible through monumentally stupid decisions from the characters. They never call the call the cops, are constantly tripping while running away (maybe if you dropped the camera...), and the overarching plot characters are the stupidest of them all.
There's no bow-tie at the end connecting all these stories, and therefore no need for the very bland overarching story itself. However in a few of the tapes the mystery is strong enough to keep you interested and some of the tension is pretty thrilling, although it never really pays off.
I would be more forgiving of the cliché story and characters if it was easier to watch, and I'd be more forgiving of the found footage faux-pas if it had better stories. But this is the worst of both worlds, I would give this a 4/10 but I'm bumping it up 1 for the tits.
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Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official sites
- Language
- Also known as
- 10/31/98
- Filming locations
- Woodbury-Story House - 2606 N. Madison Avenue, Altadena, California, USA(exteriors and interiors: house in 10/31/98)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $242,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $100,345
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $36,402
- Oct 7, 2012
- Gross worldwide
- $1,944,287
- Runtime1 hour 56 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix