Night Vision (1987)

Plotzle Expert · E35 · April 5, 2026 · Thriller / Horror

Six plot descriptions for Night Vision (1987). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. Two estranged brothers inherit their uncle's surveillance equipment business in Detroit and the archived footage reveals their own family participating in ritualistic gatherings they were never told about.
2. A naive writer from a small town moves to the big city and unknowingly saves a thief, receiving a stolen VCR that wakes him with bizarre visions affecting his dreams, stories, and reality.
3. A security guard monitoring a graveyard through infrared cameras discovers that certain mourners return nightly and their thermal signatures fade with each visit as something drains them.
4. A woman returns to her childhood home in rural Oregon to care for her blind father but realizes he can see things in complete darkness that she cannot.
5. A photojournalist documenting a rehabilitation center becomes addicted to the patients' medications and her published images start showing distortions that predict their relapses before they occur.
6. An insomniac surgeon begins performing unsanctioned operations in his basement while his family sleeps and a former patient blackmails him after recognizing his technique at a morgue.