V/H/S2012
V/H/S (2012)
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Critic Consensus: An uneven collection of found-footage horror films, V/H/S has some inventive scares but its execution is hit-and-miss.
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Cast
as Brad ('Tape 56')
as Gary ('Tape 56')
as Zak ('Tape 56')
as Rox ('Tape 56')
as Old Man ('Tape 56')
as Sam ('Second Honeymoon')
as Stephanie ('Second Honeymoon')
as Girl ('Second Honeymoon')
as Emily ('The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily...')
as Lily ('Amateur Night')
as Abbey ('Tape 56')
as Tabitha ('Tape 56')
as Steve ('Tape 56')
as Fifth Thug ('Tape 56')
as Shane ('Amateur Night')
as Patrick ('Amateur Night')
as Clint ('Amateur Night')
as Lisa ('Amateur Night')
as Bartender ('Amateur Night')
as Bouncer ('Amateur Night')
as Local DJ ('Second Honeymoon')
as Wendy ('Tuesday the 17th')
as Joey ('Tuesday the 17th')
as Samantha ('Tuesday the 17th')
as Spider ('Tuesday the 17th')
as The Glitch ('Tuesday the 17th')
as Victim By Wall ('Tuesday the 17th')
as Victim in River ('Tuesday the 17th')
as James ('The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily...')
as New Girl ('The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily...')
as Boy Alien
as Girl Alien
as Little Girl Alien ('The Sick Thing...')
as Chad ("10/31/98")
as Matt ("10/31/98")
as Tyler ("10/31/98")
as Paul ("10/31/98")
as The Girl ("10/31/98")
as Cult Leader ("10/31/98")
as Cult Dude ("10/31/98")
as Cult Dude ("10/31/98")
as Cult Dude ("10/31/98")
as Niky ("10/31/98")
as Melinda ("10/31/98")
as Passerby ("10/31/98")
as Passerby ("10/31/98")
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Critic Reviews for V/H/S
All Critics (97) | Top Critics (24) | Fresh (55) | Rotten (42) | DVD (3)
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.
I came, I saw, I hunkered.
"V/H/S" probably sounded great in the pitch meeting, but it loses all luster through some shoddy execution.
Two hours of nausea-inducing shaky cam footage that fails to tell a coherent or engrossing central story.
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.
Hardcore horror lovers will soak up the gruesome morsels.
Audience Reviews for V/H/S
When a horror movie review website gets involved in making horror movies, you can be pretty sure the pressure is high. I mean, if you're going to critique movies, you better show you know how to make a good one. And VHS (barely) validates Bloody Disgusting's idea of what makes a good horror movie. It's a found footage anthology with a framed narrative that focuses on a group of misfits who are contracted to break into a house and recover one tape amid a whole bunch of them. To find the right tape, they end up watching a bunch of them, and the results are not so great. None of the stories tie into any overarching theme or villain. The directors of the short seemed to have free range to do what they want so long as it's found footage. What saves the film is that the segments are conceptually creative. The technical prowess in spite of found footage's limitations is also fascinating. Overly shaky cams, deliberate colour degradation (to mimic a VHS tape), and a lot of disbelief suspension detract the film from being the sum of its parts, but it's a mildly entertaining attempt to keep the found footage style alive.
Super Reviewer
three stars
Super Reviewer
Four hooligans are hired to break in and retrieve a VHS tape from an old house; when they get there they watch tapes containing short POV horror stories. The episodes range from very bad (a Skype session on VHS?) to not bad (Halloween partiers walk into the wrong house), but there is a frat boy vibe to many of the segments that won't sit well with less douchey folks.
Super Reviewer
V/H/S Quotes
| Stephanie ('Second Honeymoon'): | "Did you erase it?" |
| Stephanie ('Second Honeymoon'): | Did you erase it? |