V/H/S Reviews

A solid and entertaining anthology film...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Conceptual pedantry aside, there are things to enjoy here.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

The anthology framework works well and features enough audacious moments to merit a viewing.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

A mixed bag of found-footage horror shorts, this anthology gives rising star filmmakers a chance to do something original with the genre. Of course, some of the clips are much more effective than others, and some are little more than gimmicky jokes.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Thankfully, more often than not, these five shorts work.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Smart, scary stuff.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Several of the shorts build ingeniously, and their brevity solves the serial problem of found footage, which is how to maintain interest and plausibility in shaky-cam antics for a whole feature.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

V/H/S works very well, with some of the segments genuinely inducing a sense of dread and unease while others create a videotape reality that just delights with its own twisted logic.

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Spectacular hits and forgivable misses make this a surefire candidate for cult status.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

A fantastic and fantastical example of how much life remains in the handy cam horror genre.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Entertaining horror anthology with strong performances, decent special effects and a handful of nice ideas, though some of the stories work better than others and the film is let down by a weak linking segment.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Like last year's Chronicle, here's another reminder that in the right hands found footage still has plenty of capacity to surprise.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Screechy, surprising and, in places, proper scary, this glitchy genre mixtape puts invention ahead of attention span, representing a 4/6 victory for killer over filler.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Much more stylish and novel, at this point, than the 'Paranormal' sequels and other studio-embraced found-footage shockers, the movie makes a virtue of the distressed yet esthetically pleasing look of old VHS tape, as well as Skype and other technologies.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

The Filmmakers should've consulted one another re: their content-one more segment with a group of A-HOLES carrying on like the cast of JACKASS and my head may have exploded.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

The mostly played-out found footage aesthetic has its limitations, and V/H/S doesn't escape all of them. But the collected directors do manage to make many of those limitations into the films' strengths.

Full Review | Original Score: 6.5/10

The quality is consistent... and all six segments come up with some genuinely spooky ideas.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

The film also plays to the strengths of the found-footage format, proving that sometimes the scariest things are the ones you can barely see.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Hardcore horror lovers will soak up the gruesome morsels.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

"V/H/S" puts the majority of today's mainstream "scary" movies to shame; perhaps the solution is to cut them all down to about 15 minutes, and fund them on a shoestring.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4