The Sweet Valley Tapes (a dream I had last night)

I hate found-footage horror movies so I'm not sure why I dreamed this. My dream last night was basically a found-footage horror movie. I don't know who finds it or why it was being viewed but the footage was from the early 1980s. Early home movie VHS camera footage of two twin brothers. Shaggy hippy beards. Long dirty blonde hair. Shirtless hairy chests. They found their way onto the compound of a hippie commune/cult. They were called the Sweet Valley Collective.

The film starts out with innocent footage of the cult members dancing, making crafts and shit like that but then suddenly the footage is at night and it's one of the brothers filming the other. They're laughing at the idea of finding the camera. "lookie what we found" "let's make a movie!" "yea, Hollywood!! haha" Soon you notice that there's some blood smeared on his chest and splatter on his face. In his hand is a bloody shovel. Then the camera pans to the side and you see two dead female cult members on the ground. Old fashioned night dresses covered in blood.

The rest of the film is just them taking turns filming and murdering the whole cult brutally and violently.

Anyway the movie was called "The Sweet Valley Tapes" saying tapes plural implies that they stopped killing to put a new tape in but who knows. It was my dinosaur brain making shit up while I was asleep.

I don't know how it ends because it was a dream and I woke up. I like it when the killers get stopped by a clever victim in horror movies so I think that's how I'll end it. One of the cult member children, a mischievous 15 year old girl who had snuck out to romp around in the nearby town got home after the massacre started and uses the street-smarts she learned outside of the cult to stop the killers. Since the whole story is told from within this one camera I think you see this girl creeping around in the background wearing her cult dress but has a leather jacket over it like she's trying to be cool and doesn't totally want to be in this cult. The killers at one point put down the camera to film them both killing so they don't see her sneak in through a window. But the stationary camera sees her and the killers don't notice her because they're focused on the joy of killing the kids. Maybe she calls out by name to one of the other kids like "Mary? NO!" and then pulls out her weapon and starts fighting the killers.

The final scene of the killers getting taken out is captured on film but the camera is on the ground after getting knocked down in the scuffle. With the tape still recording, most of the action happens off camera so you dont know right away that she's the one winning the fight. You hear the killers begging for their lives as she comes into view and picks up the camera. Then she turns the camera to the killers and you see close-up footage from her perspective pointing the camera at the final blow, her brutally slashing their necks with a very distinct large knife. She turns the camera to her own face and smiles widely in a creepy evil way holding the bloody knife to the camera and then she drops the camera. You see the ground and the feet of the dead killers. Then her feet walking out of frame. It films the floor and the dead guys feet for a few second then the tape runs out. Click. It ends. This would end up being a full circle moment calling back to the radio news reel that was playing at the beginning of the movie with the girls doing chores. It was warning of a serial killer on the loose who uses a distinct large knife and to be careful. The girls more-or-less ignore this and keep working and talking. The whole time you think it's the brothers who are the killers they talked about but at the end you realize it was the 15yr old cult member girl who likes to escape the compound and romp around in the town nearby who was the killer. ooh TWIST! lol This whole ending is probably cliche but I dunno I'm not a writer. Horror movies are usually lame anyway. Especially found-footage. Have a great day. Trump sucks forever.