"Tuesday the 17th"

"Tuesday the 17th" is a short featured in the 2012 anthology horror movie "V/H/S". Directed and written by Irish director Glenn McQuaid, who directed the 2008 horror comedy "I Sell the Dead", it is an homage to 80s slasher films like "Friday the 13th" (from which the short gets its name). The story follows a group of friends who go camping in the woods. However, one member of the group knows more than she lets on, and they begin being stalked and hunted by a terrifying, invisible killer.

This short was preceded by "Second Honeymoon" and followed by "The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily When She Was Younger".

Plot
Three friends—Joey, Spider, and Samantha—accompany their new friend, Wendy, on a camping trip. Joey films the group as Wendy leads them through the woods, occasionally mentioning 'accidents' that took the lives of her friends. When scanning certain areas, images of mutilated bodies appear in the film. Wendy then tells them that a murderer killed her friends during a camping trip here the previous year, but the group laughs it off as a joke. Spider and Samantha leave the group and are killed by a human-like figure with a redhead obscured in tracking errors named "The Glitch" (as identified in the end credits).

At the lake, Wendy tells Joey she lured all three of them to the grounds to use as bait so she can find and kill the mysterious force. Wendy reveals that she had been to this lake before where a killer had slaughtered all her friends and she was the only survivor. She notes that the police did not believe her when she said the killer could be in two places at once. The entity walks up behind Joey and slits his throat.

Wendy runs away, luring the figure into two easily escaped booby traps and is cut by it in the second one. She films the entity close up, but it continues to be obscured by the tracking error. Wendy continues to run through the woods, she finds Joey in his death throes. After he dies, the figure approaches Wendy and a final trap impales it. Wendy gloats at it and walks away but when she turns around, it is gone; it reappears in a tree and jumps down, beats her with the camera, then slashes her stomach, subsequently eviscerating her and afterward violently inhabiting her body.

Cast

 * Norma C. Quinones as Wendy
 * Drew Moerlein as Joey Brenner
 * Jeannine Yoder as Samantha
 * Jason Yachanin as Spider
 * Bryce Burke as The Glitch