V/H/S/Beyond(2024)

Like the others in this series, this is an anthology film.
Abduction/Adduction (Wrap Around Story)
Shot as a documentary, a filmmaker discusses stories about alien encounters and whether they are real. His documentary focuses on a pair of VHS tapes purchased at a flea market that contain the most compelling evidence yet of the existence of aliens. The documentary crew visits alien skeptics and believers to show them the tapes and get their assessment as to the veracity of the footage. No conclusion is definitively reached. The footage shows an alien approach a sleeping man and removing things from the man’s body. The alien then sticks a probe camera down the man’s throat. Inside the man’s body appears to be an alien entity, which roars at the camera.

Stork
A new recruit joins a group of renegade cops as they go out on an unofficial mission. The squad has been investigating the abduction of 17 infants from throughout their community. They believe they’ve located the home where the infants are being held. When the squad arrives, they are attacked by various zombified-like people, all of whom have a large bandage on their forehead. After taking out all the zombies, the police remove the bandages and see that it was put over a gaping skull wound in the zombies’ heads, and that the brains of the zombies have been removed. The police then track noises upstairs where they find the babies, all of whom have been mutated. A giant bird-like alien creature captures one of the officers and uses its beak to break open his head and eat the officer’s brains. The alien then regurgitates the brain matter to feed the infants. The police engage in a gunfight and kill the creature. The new recruit expresses admiration for what he witnessed (and it’s revealed this squad regularly hunts aliens and monsters).

Dream Girl
A paparazzi photographer living in India sneaks onto a film set with his assistant. His goal is to get candid photos of the biggest new actress, Tara. They watch Tara film a musical number, and then the photographer sneaks into her trailer and hides in her closet. The photographer witnesses Tara’s manager belittle her for her performance, and the actress sobs after he leaves.
The photographer reveals himself in order to console her, calling Tara a “goddess” and saying that she doesn’t need to take crap from anyone. Tara compliments the photographer’s face and then rips off her own face, revealing a machine skeleton underneath. It turns out that she is really an android. Referring to herself as a goddess, Tara massacres her manager, the photographer’s assistant, and everyone else on the movie set while pursuing the photographer. She eventually captures the photographer, rips off his arms, peels the flesh from his face, and then places his flesh over her metallic skeleton. Tara then leaves the set to greet the other paparazzi waiting for a glimpse of her. As the paparazzi react in horror to Tara’s new face, she begins attacking them as well.

Live and Let Dive
A bunch of friends go skydiving to celebrate Zach’s birthday. As they fly in a plane to the jump point, a huge flying saucer appears and aliens begin attacking the plane. The plane eventually breaks apart, sending all the skydivers (and two aliens) tumbling through the sky. Though some people die in the descent (or by being impaled by the plane debris), Zach’s parachute deploys and he makes it to the ground alive. He reunites with two of his friends, but they are attacked by the aliens (who also survived the fall). The aliens kill Zach’s friends by emitting a beam of light from their heads and stabbing the victims with spikes that emerge from their eyes, resulting in the victims’ faces being burned off. Zach manages to briefly escape, and he finds his wife’s corpse as he flees (clearly having been killed by the aliens). He jumps in a passing driver’s truck, but the aliens catch up and kill the driver. Zach attempts to drive off but is caught in a tractor beam. Zach is sucked into the ship, where he (and the truck) are vaporized.

Fur Babies
A militant animal rights group decide to launch an undercover investigation of the owner of a local doggie daycare. The group is offended that the owner has taxidermied her deceased dogs (claiming she’s desecrated their bodies). They send in two of their members to gather footage of the daycare under the pretense of touring the facility as potential clients. The owner quickly figures out the pair have ulterior motives, and they are then drugged and knocked unconscious by her brother. When the pair awaken, they find themselves locked in kennels and the owner treating them as dogs. Eventually, the owner begins surgically affixing massive canine jaws, claws and fur to the two. Eventually, the rest of the animal rights group break into the owner’s daycare to retrieve their friends. The owner calls out two other humans who she’s abducted and completely transformed into human/canine hybrids (and who have gone completely insane and act like dogs) and sics them on the group. The two hybrids brutally kill the members of the group, and the owner freely continues her experiments on the captive group members. The short ends with one of the hybrids chasing down and killing a thief that tries to steal packages from the daycare owner’s porch.

Stowaway
A woman is shooting a documentary on alleged UFO sightings. While camping in a desert where people have claimed to witness extraterrestrial activity, she is able to use the different settings on her video camera to follow lights she sees in the sky. The documentarian eventually sees the lights descend to the ground and finds a spaceship. She sneaks inside and explores – finding advanced technology, a bunch of animals being held in stasis, and even an alien. When she accidentally cuts herself, nanobots emerge and heal her. After becoming trapped aboard the ship, she is still on it as it takes off and leaves the Earth. She barely survives the flight at light speed, being constantly healed by the nanobots. When they arrive at the aliens’ home planet, the alien performs horrible experiments on her, fusing her body with body parts of the animal specimens aboard. She tries to kill herself, but the nanobots continue to heal her.