Is V/H/S/94 Scary? The Verdict and the Whole Plot

A drug bust with a lot of television sets

The movie is an anthology of four short horror films tied together by a frame story that counts as a fifth, and every piece is presented as found footage. The frame story, called Holy Hell, follows a SWAT team made up of Slater, Oursler, Sprayberry, Spivey, Petro and Nash, and a cameraman named Gary, who go into a warehouse expecting a drug bust. Just before they arrive, a woman in white inhales a vapor from a substance on her hands, counts backward from ten with her eyes gouged out as a second woman passes behind her. Behind the warehouse the team finds a jet, and a distorted voice welcomes them and tells them to track the signal. Inside, they find rooms of televisions showing static, and a corpse whose eyes have been gouged out, with the substance dripping onto the floor. There are more corpses, and Slater sends the team upstairs just as one of the televisions starts playing a newscast.

Reading this instead of watching it is the correct decision. Scaredy Cat makes that decision automatic, for free.

A news crew meets the Rat Man

In Storm Drain, the first story, Holly Marciano, a reporter for Channel 6, and Jeff, her camera operator, climb into a sewer to film a report on the urban legend of the Rat Man, and they find several encampments down there. A man covered in black slime walks toward them, and they try to run, but similar people catch them and take them deeper. A minister whom Holly interviewed earlier shows up, announces that a new order is coming and summons the Rat Man, a creature called Raatma. This is the scene people dread most. Raatma vomits the black liquid, and the minister pours it over Jeff's face, and he burns to death. Holly is next taken in front of Raatma, and she screams. After a commercial break, her co-anchor says she was rescued and is back at work, and that Jeff is still missing. During her report, Holly keeps blurting out Raatma's name mid-sentence, and then she vomits the liquid onto her co-anchor's face. He tears at his burning skin as Holly finishes the report in a cheerful voice and signs off with a Hail Raatma.

A coffin that is not just releasing gases

Back in the warehouse, the team finds a room that looks like a church, with mannequins in the pews and a television where the altar would be, and the screen starts playing footage from a funeral home. In The Empty Wake, Hailey is a funeral home worker assigned to host a wake for Andrew Edwards, whose family wants the service recorded overnight. Her boss Ronald and a coworker named Tim leave as a thunderstorm starts. Hailey hears noises from the coffin, and Tim tells her it is probably gases. A man named Gustav stops by to pay his respects. Her friend Sharon checks the obituaries and tells her Andrew died by suicide after jumping from a church roof while shouting gibberish. Then the power goes out and the coffin jerks toward Hailey. The doors are chained shut. The coffin is empty, and Andrew's corpse attacks her but he has no sight of her, since the top of his skull is gone. She finds it, and its eyes lock onto her. A tornado hits the funeral home and kills them both, and then a possessed Hailey rises and crawls out a window as the footage ends.

The robot spider legs are not the worst part

In the warehouse, the team finds body parts on the floor and upside-down crosses on the ceiling, and they plan to leave until the television starts showing footage from a laboratory. In The Subject, an unnamed man wakes up with his body replaced by robotic spider-like legs. A scientist named James Suhendra operates on a woman known only as S.A., giving her a lobotomy, and makes Subject 98 a fighter with blades for hands. James is a suspect in a string of disappearances, and when S.A. wakes up mid-procedure, he beats her until soldiers, including a cameraman named Jono, arrive and shoot him dead. The soldiers argue over whether to kill S.A. or keep her alive, a blackout hits, and a shot at a door lock sets off James's contingency plan. Subject 98 wakes and slaughters most of them. S.A. finds the blueprints for her own body and sees herself in a mirror. She spares Jono after he begs, and he shoots the commander when the commander attacks her. S.A. rips out Subject 98's brain and collapses next to Jono. Later, a security camera shows her standing up and walking out on her own.

A militia with a vampire in the attic

In Terror, a white supremacist group plans to blow up a government building. Their compound holds a prisoner who is a vampire, and Greg shoots him, then keeps shooting him to siphon blood as he comes back each time. Slater, from the frame story, arrives to supply them with guns. They inject the blood into a rabbit, which explodes in sunlight, and plan to use it as a bomb. After a night of heavy drinking, an alarm bell goes off, and Jimmy has not been guarding the compound. A screech comes from inside, and Reed's head is thrown out. Wayne fires a machine gun into the compound and accidentally kills Chuck, so Tom shoots Wayne dead. Steve stumbles out covered in the vampire's blood and explodes in the sun. The rest go inside, and the vampire tears off Tom's face and kills Jimmy and Bob. Then he opens a window, and the sunlight makes him explode and destroys the compound, which also kills Greg.