What actually happens
A house full of televisions and one eye implant
The film is a frame story with four short films inside it. Private investigators Larry and Ayesha are hired by the mother of a college student named Kyle to find out where he has gone. In his house they find televisions showing white noise, a pile of VHS tapes, and a laptop that is still recording. Ayesha watches Kyle's message on the laptop and puts the first tape in the VCR. In "Phase I Clinical Trials," Herman Middleton gets a cybernetic eye implant after an accident, and he cannot turn off its camera. Soon he is seeing pale ghosts in his house. He meets Clarissa, who has a cochlear implant that lets her hear ghosts. She says that removing his implant would only stop him from seeing them. Clarissa is pulled into a pool and drowns, and Herman cuts the implant out of his own head. A ghost shoves it down his throat.
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A bike ride with a head-mounted camera
In "A Ride in the Park," Mike Sullivan clips a camera to his helmet and rides through the woods of a state park. A woman covered in blood stumbles out and begs him to help her boyfriend. Then she throws up blood and turns into a zombie, and she bites Mike in the throat before he kills her with a rock. Mike dies in the woods, then comes back and attacks two cyclists, and the footage follows what he sees. He and the other zombies find a child's birthday party and ruin it. Mike gets stabbed in the eye, notices his reflection in a car window, and slows down. A man with a shotgun shoots him, and then a car hits him. Mike accidentally calls his girlfriend Amy, hears her voice and regains his mind. He takes the dead man's shotgun and ends his own life so he cannot hurt anyone else.
A documentary crew meets a very organized cult
In "Safe Haven," a film crew visits Paradise Gates, a cult in Indonesia, to make a documentary with hidden cameras. The crew is interviewer Malik, his fiancée and producer Lena, his best friend Adam and the cameraman Joni. Lena secretly tells Adam that she is pregnant with his child. Adam finds a woman strapped to a chair in the basement, and she starts screaming. During the interview, the leader, called Father, announces a time of reckoning and cuts his own throat, and the cultists begin a mass suicide. This is the scene to be ready for. Malik is shot, Lena is taken, and Father bursts apart. A demon tears out of Lena, the dead cultists rise, and it chases Adam, who flees by car. The demon rams the car, gravely injuring him, and calls him Papa, and Adam laughs hysterically as the footage ends.
Aliens meet two brothers and a dog with a camera
In "Slumber Party Alien Abduction," young brothers Gary and Randy strap cameras to their dog Tank, who films their lakeside house. Their parents go away, and they invite friends Shawn and Danny over to bother big sister Jen and her boyfriend, Zack. The boys ambush the couple with squirt guns full of urine, without noticing a grey alien under the water. After dark, a deafening noise comes twice, the power goes out, and Zack is abducted by aliens. The aliens seal the kids in sleeping bags and throw them in the lake. Jen, Randy and Gary run into the woods with Tank, and the aliens abduct them one at a time, including through a tractor beam at a barn. Gary loses hold of Tank's leash as he is lifted away, and Tank is left on the ground, badly hurt, and slowly dies.
The ending, explained
Back in the frame story, Larry returns with medicine and finds Ayesha dead by her own gun. A tape marked WATCH in lipstick is beside her, and he plays it. Larry then watches the laptop recording, in which Kyle announces that he and his mother plan to record a tape of their own. Kyle shoots himself on camera, shatters his jaw, survives and runs out before Larry and Ayesha arrive at the house. Ayesha then gets up undead and attacks Larry, who breaks her neck in self-defense and hides in a closet. She finds him, and he shoots her in the head. Kyle has been hiding in that same closet, and he strangles Larry. Kyle gives the camera a thumbs up and switches it off.
The post-credits ruling
Nobody has confirmed whether there is a scene after the credits.
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Questions people ask at 1am
Is V/H/S/2 scary?
V/H/S/2 is a 6 out of 10 with medium dread. It has four short films and frequent gore, and each story ends on its own.
How does V/H/S/2 end?
In the frame story, Ayesha dies by her own gun and returns undead, Larry fights her off, and Kyle strangles Larry in a closet before turning the camera off.
Does the dog die in V/H/S/2?
Yes, the dog dies in V/H/S/2. Tank, the family dog in the alien segment, is badly hurt after the aliens abduct the children and slowly dies as that tape ends.
Is there a post-credits scene in V/H/S/2?
Nobody has confirmed whether V/H/S/2 has a scene after the credits.
What are the four shorts in V/H/S/2?
The four tapes are "Phase I Clinical Trials" about an eye implant, "A Ride in the Park" about a zombie biker, "Safe Haven" about a cult in Indonesia, and "Slumber Party Alien Abduction."
