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V/H/S/2 (2013) Directed by Simon Barrett, Jason Eisener, Gareth Evans, Gregg Hale, Eduardo Sánchez, Timo Tjahjanto & Adam Wingard

Posted by: Frank Veenstra Posted date: 8:26 AM / comment : 0 , , , , , , , , , , , ,



Horror anthology movies are great fun to watch but they also often suffer from the exact some problems. It has some great segments, some OK ones and then some that are just plain bad. That's also the case with this movie till some extent.

I honestly don't remember all that much about the first "V/H/S" movie but if I remember things correctly, it started off absolutely great and promising but started to fizzle out toward its end. Not all of the individual segments were equally as strong, as also is the case for this movie. However, thing that saves this movie and still makes an a real good one to watch is the order the segments are shown in.

I was kind of worried at the start of the movie, since the first two segments were basically being some very standard, generic ones. Nothing too bad or horrible about them but I wasn't exactly feeling any of the horror and they were besides lacking true creativity, in my opinion. Yeah sure, a zombie POV story still sounds kind of awesome and original but it are still zombies and there's only so much you can do with it. However as the movie progressed, the movie its separate stories definitely started to gradually show some improvements and became more and more engaging and effective ones to watch.

The later stories in this movie are definitely the better ones. They are all less predictable and formulaic as the ones shown at the start of the movie and some of them offer some great surprises and horror moments in them. Definitely great to see the movie end with a blast, which leaves you hungry for more. No doubt we'll also get to see more "V/H/S" movies in the near future, not in the least also because they are very cheap, easy and fast movies to make, due to its concept and the people who are involved with it.

Horror lovers should definitely be able to appreciate and enjoy this movie. It has some great variety in it, with all sorts of very different horror ingredients, that most of the time work out very well. All of the segments are really well made and fine looking ones, despite the fact that its script definitely feels lacking at times, for some of its segments.

7/10

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Red band trailer: V/H/S/2 (2013)

Posted by: Frank Veenstra Posted date: 3:00 AM / comment : 0 , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Searching for a missing student, two private investigators break into his house and find collection of VHS tapes. Viewing the horrific contents of each cassette, they realize there may be dark motives behind the student's disappearance. From: IMDb.com

Directed by: Simon Barrett, Jason Eisener, Gareth Evans and others
Starring: Kelsy Abbott, Hannah Al Rashid, Fachry Albar and others
Current release date: June 12, 2013

Trailer: S-VHS (2013)

Posted by: Frank Veenstra Posted date: 1:22 PM / comment : 0 , , , , , , , , , ,

Directed by: Simon Barrett, Adam Wingard, Edúardo Sanchez, Gregg Hale, Timo Tjahjanto, Gareth Evans and Jason Eisener
Starring: Adam Wingard, Lawrence Michael Levine, Kelsy Abbott and others
Current release date: 2013

V/H/S (2012) Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, David Bruckner, Tyler Gillett, Justin Martinez, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, Chad Villella, Ti West & Adam Wingard

Posted by: Frank Veenstra Posted date: 11:43 AM / comment : 0 , , , , , , , , , , , ,



Seems that most people are split on this movie. Guess it's being a case of you'll either love it or hate it. And even though I most definitely did not loved this movie, I was definitely able to appreciate it and like it for what it was!

At least thing you can say about it, even if you didn't liked it, is that it's taking an original take on the found footage genre. I definitely mostly got fed up with this genre, some movies ago already and grew tired of movies using hand-held, shaky cams. It worked out quite well for this movie however in my opinion. It worked out successful because they combined it with a classic horror sub-genre; the horror anthology genre, that basically is being a movie with a bunch of short and individual segments, each often featuring their own story and characters, like this movie does as well.

The stories on their own probably wouldn't had been solid or original enough to turn into a full length movie but as shorts they are definitely bearable and even have plenty of good elements in them. It's always a sort of a problem that these type of movies often featuring 1 or 2 truly good and successful short stories and the rest is being just average, or even below that level. That's not really the case for this movie though. Each story has something good and interesting about it and I can't really name 1 that stands out or was being below average. It's a pretty consistent movie all the way through, even while the stories aren't being really connected and each one got done by a different director and cast & crew involved.

Can't really say this is being a very scary movie, unless you're one of those persons that easily gets startled by a sound in the background or stuff that gets only implied. It still has a great classic horror feel to it, even though its taking a modern approach. I also sincerely therefore do believe that most horror lovers shall be able to appreciate this movie and might even fall in love with it, as many other people already seem to have done. There is also still being a decent amount of gore and some good effects present in this movie.

The whole concept is being still a bit faulty though. I mean, it's sort of ridicules once you start paying attention to it, as to how much stuff got filmed by the characters in this movie. Nobody ever thinks about stop filming and start becoming busy trying to run or survive. But that's just something that is an integrated part of the found footage genre and something you more or less have to take for granted, when watching a movie like this.

It also was sort of annoying how nothing ever really got explained in this movie. It doesn't explain where the monsters or killers came from, or what they wanted exactly and what happened after the camera's went dark. There just hardly is any background for any of the stories. Most people won't be troubled by this though and will just have a good time watching this, like I, for most part, did as well.

In my opinion nothing more and nothing less but an enjoyable and fine modern take on the anthology horror sub-genre. No doubt that it shall spawn a couple of sequels or rip-offs. After all, these type of movies are fast and cheap to produce and highly profitable.

7/10

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Red band trailer: V/H/S (2012)

Posted by: Frank Veenstra Posted date: 3:10 AM / comment : 0 , , , , , , , , , , , ,

When a group of misfits is hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire a rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they bargained for. From: IMDb.com

Directed by: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, David Bruckner, Tyler Gillett, Justin Martinez, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, Chad Villella, Ti West & Adam Wingard
Starring: Calvin Reeder, Lane Hughes, Adam Wingard and others
Current release date: October 5, 2012
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