No Wake
Written & directed Mike P. Nelson
A group of friends travel to a lake and ignore signs warning not to go swimming.
While water skiing, they're shot dead by an unseen assailant.
Moments later, they suddenly regain consciousness, and find VII written in blood on their RV.
Believing lake is magic, they seek revenge on whoever 'killed' them.
God of Death
Written & directed by Gigi Saul Guerrero
Shortly after Mexican news network Ahorita TV begins broadcasting, an earthquake kills everybody except for cameraman Luis.
Although a rescue team arrives, they're forced to go deeper underground as rubble blocks all exits.
Karla, Eddie and co enter a room with pre-Hispanic paintings, walls created from human skulls and a statue of Aztec god Mictlān, aka Ixpuztec, Tzontemoc and Nextepehua.
Eddie is possessed by the God of Many Names and disembowels himself.
Mictlān appears behind Eddie and scoffs his heart.
Karla kills Luis and offers his heart to God as the building collapses.
TKNOGD
Directed by Natasha Kermani
Written by Zoe Cooper
A performance artist called Ada tells her audience that God has been replaced with a God of Technology.
We're shown a video showcasing the Techno Glove, which allows us to exist simultaneously in two dimensions.
She wears a VR headset and wakes God, which turns out to be a demon.
Digital entity dismembers her in the virtual world, translating to reality.
The shocked audience think it's part of the act and applaud set-piece. The cameraman removes her visor, revealing exposed brain.
Ambrosia
Written & directed by Mike P. Nelson
Ruth is celebrating her family continuing the tradition of the VII (killing seven people).
She sticks on a video which reveals she was the mystery sniper from opening story.
The police show up and gun down family, but Ruth survives and tries to commit suicide.
However, she's apparently invincible and arrested.
Dreamkill
Directed by Scott Derrickson
Written by Scott Derrickson & C. Robert Cargill
Lifting POV straight from Halloween, an intruder enters a house and murders female with an electric knife.
Detective Wayne finds the mutilated body and says he's already seen this on a tape sent to the police last week.
Gunther is caught posting another tape and brought in for questioning.
He tells Wayne and his father Bobby that a VCR started to record his dreams, which later come true.
They watch footage of latest tape and go to the address.
Wayne grills Bobby about his connection to the murders and Bobby shoots him dead.
Gunther realises Bobby tapped into his dreams to perform killings.
Not long after, son kills father.
Total Copy
Directed by David Bruckner
Written by Evan Dickson
Rather than describing interludes individually, the gist of frame narrative:
A team of scientists led by Dr. Spratling are studying 'Rory', a shapeshifting creature that's able to mimic anything on sight.
Rory gradually evolves, sprouts tentacles and embarks on a killing spree.
The gory gift that keeps on giving
Gruesome pentalogy fails to match the quality of 94, but on par with 99.
TKNOGD was the worst and the strongest is Dreamkill.
The next is yet to be confirmed, but surely only a matter of time.
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