VHS: The Gawkers

"The Gawkers"

Credits
Title:	"The Gawkers"
Directed by:	Tyler MacIntyre
Written by:	Tyler MacIntyre; Chris Lee Hill
Produced by:	Samuel Zimmerman; Emily Gotto; Nicholas Lazo; Andrew Williams; Matt Bettinelli-Olpin; Tyler Gillett; David Bruckner; Josh Goldbloom; Chad Villella; Brad Miska; John Negropontes; Paige Dowling
Cinematography:	Nicholas Piatnik
Production
Released:	September 14th, 2022
Country:	USA
Language:	English
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"The Gawkers" is a film short featured in the V/H/S film series. It is the fourth of five vignettes featured in the 2022 film V/H/S/99. It was directed by Tyler MacIntyre, with a script written by MacIntyre and Chris Lee Hill.

Plot[]

Brady is a young teenager who films stop motion videos of toy soldiers with his older brother Dylan's camera. While Brady records his latest video, Dylan bursts into his room and takes the camera, which he uses to film himself practicing pick-up lines. He and his friends Kurt, Mark and Boner exclude Brady from their activities, thinking him to be a hopeless loser. The friends then go out to pull pranks on the neighborhood residents and each other, then perform tricks at the local skate park.

After concealing the camera and using it in an attempt to get secret up-skirt photos of two girls, the teens become fixated on Sandra, an attractive blonde-haired neighbor who has moved into the house across the street from Brady and Dylan's house. They note that her yard is decorated with several stone busts.

As the boys film Sandra washing her car from Brady's window, they are interrupted by a deliveryman who hands Sandra a Macintosh computer. Brady later meets and befriends Sandra, who invites him into her house while he attempts to roller-skate, much to Dylan's shock and jealousy. Upon Brady's return, Kurt, Mark, and Boner compliment him for his newfound relationship with Sandra. When they beg him for information, Brady tells them that Sandra invited him back to help set up a new webcam. Dylan and his friends enlist Brady to follow through on this promise, pressuring him into installing spyware on her computer, intending to hack into her webcam in the hopes of seeing her nude.

Brady reluctantly agrees and returns to Sandra's house that night. Although he is nearly caught, he manages to install the spyware, despite being wracked with guilt for spying on Sandra and betraying her trust. Unbothered, Dylan and his friends watch Sandra as she undresses as Brady leaves the room. The boys are horrified to witness Sandra rip off her scalp, uncovering hair made of snakes and revealing that she is actually a gorgon.

Sandra appears to notice what the boys are doing through the webcam and leaps from her window to their house. She breaks into Dylan's room and attacks them, killing Kurt, Mark, and Boner. As Dylan flees, Brady arrives and attempts to reason with Sandra, apologizing for violating her privacy. Not accepting his apology, Sandra turns Brady to stone, then proceeds to petrify Dylan as well. Now fully transformed, she slowly approaches the camera stuck in Dylan's stony hand, as the tape comes to an end.