The Dark Tapes Page #6

Synopsis: A genre-defying mixture of horror, sci-fi, myth, mystery and thrills told as four interlocking tales in one intelligent anthology. Ghosts, spirits, creatures, demons and more from the paranormal world collide with rational curiosity.
Production: Epic Pictures
  17 wins & 21 nominations.
 
IMDB:
4.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
Year:
2016
98 min
Website
53 Views


And trust me, if

they did them to you,

you wouldn't wanna

talk about them either.

The physical stuff, I can take.

My mind, my emotions, my being,

that, they can't have.

But I realized something.

And now I know, I can

beat these mother fu...

- welcome to our end

of grad school blowout.

My name's Ryan,

and I'll be your host for

tonight's festivities.

Wanna give me the

first testimonial,

I'll show this to

everyone years from now

when we're all fat and old.

- My testimonial Ryan,

is that you should de-nerd

yourself for your own party.

There are a ton

of hot girls here.

- I have,

excuse me dude,

I have a testimonial as well.

Ashley and I hooked

up last week.

- We did not.

- Yes we did, yes we did.

Dude, we hooked up alright,

you loved it and you know it.

- Hey, what's up?

I like this, party

people having fun,

what's up?

- Ryan?

- Oh no, no, I'm Josh, I'm Josh.

- Josh, sorry man, I

get you guys confused.

- Stop doing that, dude!

You guys are disgusting.

Funny face,

you wanna give a testimonial?

- Get the camera out of my face.

- Are you serious?

- I'm serious.

- What's up?

- I have something

really serious things

to talk to you about.

- What's up dude?

- I'm just kidding, I

don't have anything to say.

- And so, I don't now.

If you're into practicing

the same things,

we can practice things together.

- Sorry.

You said Amanda never

has more than one drink.

- Never, no.

- So she's probably

not the kind of girl

who would be hooking up with

two guys at the same time?

- What are you talking about?

- I think I just saw

these two douche bags

drag her into your room.

- Take this!

Excuse me.

Sorry.

Watch out.

Hey!

Open the door!

Hey whoa, whoa!

- Dude, you're like a

bearded Rhonda Rousey.

- Amanda still passed out?

- Those roofie loving

molester mother,

yeah, she's totally crashed.

- Dude, I don't know,

I'm just thinking

maybe you shouldn't

start taping her

as soon as she wakes up.

- We need to get whatever she

remembers on tape right away.

She might press charges,

those guys might press

charges against us

for beating them up,

you don't know.

Amanda, you okay?

- The things they did to me.

The things they did to me.

Why would they do that?

Why would they do that to me?

Don't touch me!

Don't touch me!

Don't touch me!

Don't touch me!

Don't touch me!

- That must've been

at least a 6.0 quake.

- Amanda, you okay?

Amanda?

- Guys, why don't you help

me get her to Josh's bedroom.

Ryan.

- One of the many

large shards of glass

I'm finding all

over my house now,

which is just really great.

- You guys,

I just looked it up to see

how big that earthquake was,

and there's no report

of an earthquake.

Nobody else felt it.

- Power surge or

something maybe?

- A power surge wouldn't make

the whole building shake.

Look, look out here,

everything's fine.

- What is there to

eat around here?

You guys didn't eat

everything, did you?

Man, I passed out last night,

I'm starving.

- What's the

last thing you remember?

- Ummmm,

I was talking to some guy.

I had the weirdest

dreams last night.

What?

Am I missing something?

- Hey, what's up?

How are you?

- I'm alright.

Sorry about the

video call, my phone,

it's all messed up.

- No worries.

How are your grandparents?

- They're doing well.

Um, you're the only person

I could talk to about this,

I'm sorry to bother you.

- Don't be silly,

glad you called.

I was just thinking

the other day,

that this is the first

time since we were 12

we've lived in different

cities from each other.

- Yeah, you were my,

constant all those years.

So, umm,

I'm just gonna say it,

I've seen my mom a few times.

- In person?

Did you call the police?

- No, it's hard to explain, but,

I can't call the police...

- of course you

can, you have to.

What did you grandparents say?

- I'm not telling

my grandparents

that I saw their daughter-in-law

who went crazy and

murdered their son.

Besides, they

wouldn't believe me.

- You're not making any sense.

You need to talk to someone.

- I'm not sure she's

entirely responsible

for everything she did.

I think it's passed onto me now.

- What are you talking about?

- Anyway, I'll

figure something out,

I'm sorry to bother you.

- Don't hang up.

- My grandparents are

gonna be back soon.

I thought it would

stop when I came here,

I'll talk to you later.

- Amanda, wait a second.

Good to see you're alive.

- I'm in Montana.

- Montana?

- Nearest home is

a 30 minute drive.

I thought that getting

away from civilization

would make it stop.

It did for a bit,

but, it's worse now.

- Amanda, you can't

just run away from this.

You need to get help.

- That's why I'm calling.

If I come down there

next week on the 10th,

can I stay with you?

- Of course, you know that.

- Can Josh and

Ashley be there too,

I'm gonna need all three of you.

- I'm sure they'll both

be there if you need them.

- What's so funny?

- All three of us

are very worried,

we were going to track you down

and come to wherever you are.

- And take me away

like an intervention,

kidnap me?

- Something like that.

- I should go before

we lose the connection.

- Wait a minute, please

don't disappear again.

- I promise, I'll be there soon.

Really, already?

Can't I just,

finish my conversation?

- Amanda?

- Please, you do

this all the time.

- Amanda?

- Okay, everybody got it?

Make sure the camera

is always recording

and most importantly...

- yeah yeah yeah, don't

fall asleep, we got it.

- Right, okay.

I'm gonna be in the bedroom,

and I'll leave it open

so you guys can check

in on me if you want.

Just record everything,

and stay awake, please.

Just drink coffee or do coke.

- None of us do

cocaine, you know that.

- Are you doing hard drugs?

Is this what's happening?

- No no no no,

I'm not, no.

Just, guys please

just do this for me.

Okay, thank you.

I'm gonna go to bed, alright.

Good night.

Thanks.

- Dude, you gotta

get a couch already.

- I told you, I'm moving

in two months for the job,

what's the point.

- Am I the only one

that thinks it's weird

that she wants to sleep in the

same bed where it happened?

- Maybe it's just her way

of dealing with all this.

- Yeah, she'll be fine.

Everybody's different.

Ashley,

Ashley wake.

Ryan, will you wake Ashley.

Hey!

Hey!

Get up!

Get the camera!

- Amanda, Amanda.

Everything is okay,

we're here for you.

- Well, that didn't work.

Was I screaming again?

- Yeah, Jesus, we thought

you were dying or something.

- I'm sorry, I thought

I was past that part.

You guys just dozed

off or something?

- I don't know,

I just remember that

we were laying there.

- Don't worry about it, I

didn't think it would work.

It was worth a try.

Just turn the camera

off, just turn it off!

- Okay, the camera is all set.

But, I don't really

understand why

they can't see whatever

you wanna show me.

- Because the only

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