Gary (V/H/S "Tape 56")

Gary, pointing out his flashlight.

**Gary** is one of the main protagonists of V/H/S, serving himself as the titlular protagonist of "Tape 56"/frame narrative. He is a member of The Criminal Filmmakers, playing as the cameraman of the group.

## Biography

### "Tape 56"/frame narrative

At the beginning of the tape, Gary and his crews are driving through a parking lot until they see a couple going to the inside of there. They stop inside, and get out of the car, running to where they are to sexually assault the woman. They later flee after the boyfriend chases them down, but with their recording in hand. In the next scene, they are seen in a snowy place with baseball bats to break the windows of an apparently abandoned house. Gary go inside that house, and start breaking the furniture, hitting the walls and the ceiling, and even painting graffiti around it. Gary later reveal the real reason of making the films is for money, and it is known that they earn fifty dollars.

Gary begins to want to earn more money, and they were watching the tape where they attacked the girl in the parking lot. Gary tries to reveal his way to earn more money, but since they were not listening, Gary angrily hits the TV, breaking the screen with the bat. The others get upset with him due to this, but Gary is unperturbed and tells them his plan to earn more money. Gary revealing that there is an anonymous buyer who was interested in their recordings and called them to steal a VHS tape from a house, with a large cash reward if they deliver. Whey finally arrive at the house, Gary noting that he'll personally take care of anyone a witness to their deeds. The filmmakers then manage to open the door, and inside the house, they begin to wonder where the tape should be. Rox and Brad call Gary, and when the latter goes up, and discovers the dead old man. Gary believes that Rox and Brad killed him, but they tell him they found him that way. They notice that there are televisions, and they try to know where the tape is, and try to check the VCRs. Gary decided to go along with Zak to the basement,

Gary and Zak reach the basement and see nothing but scrap, and Gary manages to find where the tapes were. However, he sees that there is more than one tape, and orders Zak to bring a bag to put them all. Gary is then informed by Zak about a creature, but he does not believe him, he tells him that maybe he is drugged since there is no one else. Gary and Zak already with the tapes in the bag come out of the basement, and believe that the cassettes contain images to blackmail, he proposes to make copies to do so. Gary along with Zak walked upstairs, and they start asking where Rox is. He opens the bag, takes out the tapes, and orders Zak to look at what they contain. Zak, uncomfortable by the corpse, refuses, but He doesn't care as he goes to find Rox and Brad. Gary return to inform him that Rox and Brad are nowhere to be found, but notices that Zak is gone. He starts calling and looking for Zak, until he finds his decapitated corpse. He laugh maniacally, believing that it is a joke or it was someone else's corpse, but then when he sees Zak's head and surprisingly also sees the dead old man in a zombie status, Gary is alarmed and tries to escape but falls down the stairs. As the fall breaks his leg, and the undead old man then comes down and kills him.