Scary Stories and Urban Legends

Video Nasty

One evening, a young woman
named Betty was home alone,
when she heard a knock at the
front door. She opened it and
found a young man standing there
on the doorstep. He told her that
his car had broken down and
asked if he could come in and
make a call because his cell phone
battery had run out.

Betty was a friendly young woman
and she readily agreed to help
him. After he made his phonecall,
she offered him a drink. They sat
down in the lounge and began to
discuss anything and everything.
Their conversation continued
long into the night.

As it was getting late, Betty
yawned and told the young man
that it was probably time for him
to go home. However, he ignored
her and continued to talk about
his passion for movies. He listed
all the movies he had seen
recently and asked her opinion
about them.

He continued to talk and brought
up the subject of video nasties.
Betty didn't know what the term
meant. He explained that a video
nasty was a film in which a person
was actually murdered. No special
effects. No camera tricks.
Everything was real. Betty began
to get a little creeped out and
explained that she had been
terrified when she watched one
horror movie in particular.

It was the morbid story of a young
woman who was trapped by three
psychopaths who left a camera
running as they killed her and
chopped her up. The man began
to talk more and more about viseo
nasties and the longer he spoke,
the more uneasy she became.

While he was talking, Betty's
attention was suddenly drawn by
a peculiar red glow under the
jacket of her guest. Her face grew
pale when she realized it was the
unmistakable red light of a
camera that was recording...