Miami Mall Photo Booth Horror: Teen Couple’s Cute Pics Turn into Blood-Soaked Nightmare (True Vice City Chills)

A Miami mall photo booth turns a teen couple’s sweet kisses into a blood-drenched prophecy of demonic hunger.

In the neon-lit heart of a Miami mall, Jason and Kassy slip into a blood-red photo booth for a strip of playful kisses—only to wake up to smiles twisted into sadistic grins and eyes black as voids. As the glossy prints morph into a gruesome prophecy of torn throats and spilled guts, the lovers discover the booth’s final snapshot isn’t a memory… it’s a death warrant.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The booth by mournerists. Everyone has heard about Miami, Florida.
At some point it was known as Vice City. Generally
throughout most of the year, it's filled with the warm
accompaniment of the sun and its subtle tropical warmth, just
like any other city, though its more suburban areas are
flooded with several flavors of shopping malls with different assortment

(00:24):
of characteristics which appeal to the teenagers and those post
the age group alike. This pleasant Sunday evening, a boy
and a girl of their latter teens walked together through
the coolly lit walkways of a shopping mall, a somewhat
charming Jason and his beautiful girlfriend Cassie. They walked talking

(00:49):
about this and that, holding hands and occasionally but with frequency,
exchanging loving kisses. Hey, look, it's a picture booth, exclaim Jason,
as he smiled at Cassie and proceeded, we should take
some pictures together. What do you think. Cassie was not

(01:09):
much a fan of silly things as to take pictures
in booths, but that night the idea sounded perfectly appealing,
as it was something she and Jason had never done
as a couple. She gave him a delightful nod and
returned his warm smile with one of her own as
they stepped into the booth and sat down. The booth

(01:30):
itself had absolutely no lettering on it and was painted
a color resembling blood, and the curtain had several stains
on it, if they could be called that by all means.
They did not pay much mind to it, since it
was a booth and it was in the middle of
a mall where everyone always walked through and used its
many utilities. After inserting a dollar into the booth and

(01:55):
discussing what poses they would take for the pictures, they
pressed the start button together and smiled at the camera
while their heads were leaned against each other. The second
picture was of them smiling with that youthful passion, which
was in turn followed by a picture of them kissing.
The second to last was of him kissing her cheek,

(02:17):
and she ended the strip with one of herself kissing
his neck. They confirmed their purchase, the booth printed two
copies of the same pictures in the typical strip format,
each about a square inch. Upon arriving to his house
and greeting his parents, Jason headed to his room and
taped the strip to the right side of his computer
monitor and looked it over one last time before heading

(02:40):
off to bed. As he awoke the next morning, he
yawned and stretched quickly before slapping over at his iPhone
to shut off the alarm, before getting up and walking
over to his computer, sitting down in his boxers as
he cracked his fingers and turned on the monitor to
check his emails before heading off to get ready for

(03:01):
Out of the corner of his eye, however, with quite
a level of confusion, he noticed something which made the
hairs on the back of his neck stand on end,
while a chill ran down his spine, goose bumps raining
over his skin all over his body. The smile on
Cassie's face had changed, but not just in a simple manner.

(03:21):
It had taken on slightly malignant and sadistic features, while
his own smile had straightened out and became what seemed distressed.
All the while he did not dare look directly at it.
His eyes were glued in place, as if his body
refused to even inspect this peculiar occurrence. After several minutes

(03:43):
of staring at his desktop, Jason stood and placed his
hands upon his desk, leaning forward as he now stared
closely at the strip, His confusion and awe had become
more of a curious emotion. His finger glided along the
street as he closely watched each picture. The same malignant

(04:05):
and sadistic features took refuge upon his girlfriend's face throughout
all the pictures, as well as his own face and
its distressed look. It was somewhat fascinating to him how
a picture could just change like that, though he also
knew that pictures could be manipulated in photoshop. The thing was,

(04:26):
though to him the strip was the same exact strip
that he had received from the booth. He just knew it.
His parents surely did not have enough experience with computers
as to manipulate these set of images and then replace
them on his monitor. This is what turned his fascination

(04:46):
to more of an ominous sense of foreboding. Jason took
a look at the clock on his taskbar and realized
that he had to get moving, so he decided to
grab the strip, slip it in his wallet, and then
go to his girlfriend's to show her what had happened
to the strip. That evening, he walked into Cassie's house,

(05:07):
greeted her parents, and then headed over to her room.
As he passed the bathroom, he noticed the light was
on and that the shower was also on. Hey, I'm here.
I'm going to be waiting in your room, all right.
He had knocked on the door and then said this,
to which she responded with a loud yes, so it

(05:29):
could be heard over the roaring of the water. He
stepped into her room and walked over to her bed,
taking a seat as he noticed that her strip was
on the wall, but more importantly, it was perfectly normal.
Shocking to him, this was very much indeed, as with
great hurry, he took out his wallet and removed the strip,

(05:52):
which he put side to side with Cassie's. He could
feel the blood sink to his feet. Her eyes had
become black, and the malignant and sinister smile spread from
ear to ear, revealing razor sharp teeth that were stained
with blood. More horrifically, however, was the look of pain

(06:12):
and anguish upon his own face, and the fact this
his eyes were shut. In all the pictures, his eyes
scanned down, and when they fell upon the last picture,
his heart stopped. His girlfriend was eating away his neck,
and he could see the tendons and arteries as she
took a chunk from it with great pleasure and a

(06:35):
wide grin. Jason dropped the strip and stood, stepping away
from the wall with stumbling steps. When he heard the
door open slowly, he felt a sense of relief as
he knew Cassie would walk in and comfort him. But
when he began to turn around, he noticed red blood.
The muscles of his neck seemed to strain as to

(06:56):
prevent him from finishing the rotation, but he saw more
and more teeth, black eyes, blood claws. No next thing
he knew, she was on him, and her claws quickly
found his mouth, shutting it as those sharp teeth tore
with ease through his neck and took a nice chunk

(07:17):
out of it, while her empty claw dug deep into
his gut, ripping open his torso and pulling out his intestines.
She had killed him quite quickly with that one bite
and the ripping open of his stomach, but she was
busy eating his innards with great delight. As she gave
a grim chuckle, shattering glass was heard. Then Cassie's parents

(07:38):
were quick to be there in her room, only to
find the mangled and disemboweled body of Jason and a
hole in her window. Her mother vomited on the floor immediately,
and her father nearly fainted. They knew nothing of what
had happened or where their daughter was. Neither would they
ever know either, for the strip that had belonged to

(07:59):
Jason had reached turn to normal.