V/H/S Reviews

On the surface, these may indeed sound like they would be interesting stories to put together for a horror collection, but sadly, "V/H/S" suffers from a very poor level of writing.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

[Embodies] the whole found footage horror genre: there's a few highlights, most of it doesn't work at all, and after a while the 'reality' feels especially artificial.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/10

Incomprehensible camera-work, dodgy acting, repetitious pacing, lazy jump scares and low-resolution boobies

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

The shorts taken on their own might be perfectly acceptable found-footage episodes, but digested as a whole film, packaged together, it becomes a difficult thing to watch.

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Some of the segments are more successful than others, but all of them could do with better actors.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Sadly, V/H/S is more miss than hit.

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Fails to fulfil its grisly potential.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

What's the point? None of the segments is particularly compelling. Strung together, it's way too much of a muchness.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

Two hours of nausea-inducing shaky cam footage that fails to tell a coherent or engrossing central story.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Tiresome turkey seldom provokes anything but weary derision.

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With some work on the script and some polish, this could have been an interesting film. Instead, it's just an experiment with mixed results.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

Six horror shorts - one sings, the others mostly don't.

Full Review | Original Score: 4

Even the title feels like a suggestion that you're better off waiting to watch it at home.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

In too many of the shorts, bad acting quickly undermines the "authenticity" the aesthetics labor to achieve.

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I came, I saw, I hunkered.

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I did like the first segment, but the others are the reasons why I normally dislike many entries from the horror genre. It's an interesting concept, but unfortunately it just falls apart.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Watching douche bags get their comeuppance loses its charms the fourth or fifth time through.

Full Review | Original Score: C

While two of the tales retain a satisfying bite, the experiment as a whole is tiring and often ridiculous, spending most of its energy supporting a concept that wears out its welcome after ten minutes of exposure.

Full Review | Original Score: C

It might well be a brand-new different kind of found footage movie, but it's no better a work of horror cinema as a result.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10

This has been attracting a lot of enthusiasm from horror buffs but it is hard to see why.

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