![]() Overall, just like the WNUF Halloween Special, I found the film to be middling. The pieces are all there, and the result is ultimately a good time, though What Happens Next Will Scare You doesn’t come together in the most satisfying way. Like a palate cleanser between courses, the method only calms the viewers’ nerves to mess with them again in the next vignette. The result is an alternating mix of scary and silly, and it works well to raise and then relax heart rates. Horror fans will enjoy the sometimes spooky, often hilarious videos that play on social media, found footage films, old dating videos, and paranormal investigation shows. ![]() August and Helenmary Ball), imitating Ed and Lorraine Warren, trying to stop a possessed teddy bear. įans of the WNUF Halloween Special will see actors and characters from the previous film, such as the news anchor, Paul Fahrenkopf, now playing a dad-joking janitor. ![]() LaMartina doesn’t break any new ground here, but he’s made a comedy for horror fans as well as fans of the crew’s WNUF Halloween Special. There’s certainly a lot of fun and laughs, most coming from a place of dry wit and dark humor, but What Happens Next Will Scare You is an irreverent horror-comedy that is worth sitting back to enjoy. However, the psychotic-clown dating video definitely held some laughs before manifesting in the office to make bloody balloon animals the same way the clown in Stitches would. My favorite may have been the absurdity of Sasquatch’s appearance during a routine traffic stop. The videos all have different temperaments. This isn’t anything new for an anthology film, borrowing the formula of its storyline mainly from the V/H/S movies in how it crafts a narrative around an otherwise unconnected film. Throughout the journalists’ meeting, the evil presences from the videos begin infesting the office, creating a finale for the characters that uses pieces from all of the videos shown. ![]() When Lester’s turn arrives, he plays a Native American death song, instantly cursing the office’s personnel, very similar to the way that Ash and his friends unleash a curse in The Evil Dead when they find an old reel-to-reel in the basement. Throughout much of the film, characters Rachel (Melissa LaMartina), Vanessa (Kathy Carson), Lester (Troy Jennings), and Eugene (Johnny Marra) show off their various videos to impress June (Kalima Young) in a last-ditch attempt to save their floundering website.Įach journalist unveils their scary horror tale hoping their video makes the list. While the viewer rapidly moves their eyes to find the out-of-the-ordinary details in the video, a jump scare and sour taste meet the viewer as well as bored intern Myra (Rachel D. Over super-bright digitized effects, the credits roll like someone scrolling through the dredges of YouTube before giving way to our first video: an old laundromat where things are mysteriously moving. The film opens to the almost cliché heavy metal music of low-budget horror movies. The film becomes loosely held together with a story of internet journalists pitted against one another, vying for their jobs by presenting the internet’s thirteen scariest videos to their managing editor for an upcoming clickbait listicle. With LaMartina overseeing all of the directing in What Happens Next Will Scare You, the writers venture into more of an anthology format. ![]()
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