While surveying a telegraph line in 1861, Western Union engineer Edward Creighton (Dean Jagger) is severely injured in an accident. He is discovered by Vance Shaw (Randolph Scott), an outlaw on the run from a posse. Forced to travel on foot after his horse was hurt, Shaw at first considers stealing Creighton's horse, but changes his mind and takes the man with him, saving his life.
Sometime later, following his recovery, Creighton returns to Omaha, Nebraska and plans the construction of a telegraph line from Omaha to Salt Lake City, Utah. Facing considerable opposition to the line from Confederate soldiers, Indians, and outlaws, Creighton elicits the help of his sister Sue (Virginia Gilmore), foreman Pat Grogan (Minor Watson), and assistant Homer Kettle (Chill Wills).
Looking to put his outlaw past behind him, Shaw arrives at Creighton's Western Union office looking for honest work and is hired as a scout by Grogan who is unaware of his past. Creighton recognizes him among the men and allows him to stay despite his suspicions. Creighton also hires tenderfoot Richard Blake (Robert Young), a Harvard-educated engineer as a favor to Blake's father. Shaw and Blake are both attracted to Sue and vie for her attention, but their romantic rivalry is cut short when construction of the telegraph line starts on July 4, 1861.
After work commences on the line, one of the men is killed apparently by a mysterious band of cattle-rustling Indians. Unconvinced that Indians are to blame, Shaw rides out to investigate and follows the rustlers' trail to the camp of Jack Slade, a former friend and cohort, whose gang committed the killing disguised as Indians—the gang Shaw left following his last bank robbery. Slade reveals that they are working for the Confederacy to disrupt Western Union because they believe the telegraph service will help the Union. Shaw rides away and returns to the line. Not wanting to turn in his former friends, Shaw tells Creighton that a large band of Dakota Indians stole the cattle, and recommends that they simply replace the herd and not risk a fight with the Indians.
Sometime later, a confrontation takes place between men working on the forward line and a band of drunken Indians. When one of the Indians tries to steal some equipment, a nervous Blake shoots him, ignoring Shaw's order to remain calm. After word arrives that the main camp is under attack by other Indians, the Western Union men rush back to help with the defense. At the main camp, Slade's men, who are again disguised as Indians, steal the Western Union horses. The company discover the ruse when one of the wounded Indians turns out to be a white man. Forced to buy back their stolen horses from Slade, Creighton becomes suspicious of Shaw's involvement, especially when he admits to knowing the gang.
Soon the U.S. Army arrives and announces the Indians have now refused to allow the telegraph lines to go through their territory in response to Blake's shooting of the drunken Indian. Creighton, Shaw, and Blake ride out to convince Chief Spotted Horse to allow them to build the line through Indian territory, even though the man Blake wounded was Spotted Horse's son. Creighton is finally able to persuade the Indians to allow them passage, and work continues until the company approaches Salt Lake City.
Sometime later, Shaw receives word that Jack Slade wants to meet with him. On the way to see Slade, Shaw is captured and bound by Slade's men. Slade says his group is going to burn down the Western Union camp and they don't want Shaw to interfere. After Slade and his men ride off, Shaw escapes from his ropes but arrives back too late to prevent the fire. He helps rescue some of the Western Union men from the flames and burns his hands in the process.
After the fire, Creighton confronts Shaw for an explanation, but Shaw does not reveal what he knows and is fired by Creighton. As Shaw leaves the camp, he tells Blake that Slade is actually Shaw's brother and that he, Shaw, will find Slade's gang and stop them from interfering with the telegraph project. Shaw rides off and finds Slade and his men in a nearby town. At the barber shop, Shaw confronts his brother, whose gun is concealed under the barber's sheet. Slade shoots Shaw through the sheet. Shaw fights back in spite of his wound, killing some of the gang members, and then dies. Blake arrives and continues the fight with Slade who dies from his wounds. Soon after, the Western Union line is completed and the workers celebrate. When Sue laments the absence of Shaw, Creighton tells her that Shaw can hear them.
很邪性，对，就是那种精神疯癫边缘的劲劲儿很正，很难得！只是录像带看完会死人这种设定可以改改了。
整体故事我没联系起来，但是殡仪馆和实验室的那段比较精彩，这种第一视角的游戏类电影还是代入感不错的。
下水道鼠人，棺材丧尸，硬核机器人，恐怖行动，这四个故事都还可以。
太太太太太nb了，改造人故事就像游戏 我爱cult
我显然暂时丧失了看恐怖片的乐趣。（边看血肉横飞边吃东西已经成为我的基操了
主线太无聊了，第三个故事挺有劲儿的，焦虑感十足。
也就改装机器人那part能看，其次鼠人和守夜人烂中带点搞笑，最后一个故事超级烂。
不行不太行，第3个故事可以但是格格不入单独出来拍个片成有点爽。
评分过于低了吧！这片子很好啊，血腥恐怖暴力都有，除了贯穿全片和吸血鬼的稍稍逊色一些，前两三个故事都成功吓到我了。
串场的故事实在是占比太少了，而且主线零散；其实最想说的第三个故事，虽然整体画风上非常的现代与彩色化，但我觉得它在伪纪录的镜头切换上是代入感最强的，而且将那种触摸劣质机械收音设备的质感做出来了，其余三个故事中规中矩，并没有很大的突破点
此系列还以为终结在三部曲了，没想到重启之后还是那样惊艳！第二、三个故事很精彩！
主線反轉最沒意思，其他四個故事都還好，機械人類這部我總覺得有股日本風味出來kkk
就是看看新鲜罢了...好在觉得没有浪费时间...
雖然演技尷尬但是我好喜歡這個系列。粗糙硬核僞記録都市傳說
3.5！是符合我的预期的！虽然124真的都很无聊想想就能猜到的故事 但是有的效果做得还是很好的 我真的要把3单拿出来说说 这就是VHS之爱死机 血浆程度满分机器人造型满分女主还是个柔情党 我以为她和小哥真的要执手相看泪眼一起死呢 没想到还是成功原地复活 甚至想看3的后续 我都有点忘了前几部vhs了这部我觉得是不错的 要再去补一下前几部
有很多电影的影子，《异形》、《第九区》、《弗兰肯斯坦》、《硬核亨利》，《机器人总动员》。总之整体思路基本还是弗兰肯斯坦风格
变态科学家的故事很nice，鼠人、守夜…太都市鬼故事了。
很奇怪，我虽然一直对伪纪录片没啥好感，但是这个系列还是会关注着看看，之前几部谈不上多喜欢但是没有一种【乱】的观感，这部就总有这种感觉，不知道为啥。几个故事都不是很喜欢，硬要说的话可能实验室的设想那个稍微有戳到一点点。
最爱VHS！！第三个好精致啊画风都不一样了
《下水道的异形》、《无名男尸》、《印尼特摄版我的机器女友》、《红脖子大战吸血鬼》，我最喜欢的伪纪录片系列从没让我失望，这次还走复古路线了，今年都开始文艺复兴，各种典中典续作层出不穷，VHS也不能落后，可惜结尾有点磕嗨了，导致拍得有点假了
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