V/H/S (2012)

i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

Fantastic!

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

seriously its not worth it. I could end the review right here as its not even worth reviewing as one already knows what to expect form 6 different found footage recordings in one movie with each one supposedly offering different things but is mostly boring and creepy at best. If not a story i at least expected good scares but its actually not at all as scary as i expected or as people here are telling you it is (i was actually laughing as to wtf is happening).Verdict: not at all worth watching

Terrible. I love horror movies, but this one was not worth the watch. Glad I didn't pay to see it. Most of the stories were poorly written, filmed with a wobbly camera with distortion effects that doesn't even look like real distortion. I wouldn't recommenced this one to anyone. To the people that keep giving this one good rews: thank you for wasting two hours of my life.

Well my one big complaint is the camera-work (the "found footage" genre) was making me dizzy. I was so happy at the parts where it became normal instead of jumping all over the place. So if that's going to bother you, you should probably skip it.Not really all that good, more of a collection of weird short stories. It held my interest though. It was good enough to keep my attention to the end. I wish they would have expanded on some of the stories a little more. They could have made it, say, 3 short stories and gave some explanation of what was going on.So, it could have been an 8 if it (a) get rid of the nauseating camera-work (b) expand on some of the short stories and give some background as to "why"? or "what were they doing"? (c) make it longer to give time to give more background. I bet the writers actually didn't know why, they'd have to put a lot more thought into it! Also, parts of it are quite gruesome, so if you don't like that, it would be another reason to skip it. It's not a stupid torture movie though. I don't mind a little gore if there's a reason and story behind it. Also it's not a slasher movie with some guy chasing pretty girls around with a knife. Leave that for the teenagers I guess.

A horror anthology of five short films tied together by a sixth short that weaves a narrative around the entire stuff, V/H/S merges found-footage style with anthology format and allows up-n-coming filmmakers to showcase their talents by giving them free creative reign over a blank canvas but it's an opportunity wasted, as most of them chip in with mediocre entries.The basic premise of V/H/S follows the exploits of a criminal gang who are offered a large sum of money by a third party in exchange for breaking into a desolate house and acquiring a particular VHS tape. Upon searching the house, they discover a dead body and hundreds of unmarked VHS tapes but the longer they take to find the right tape, the more danger they put themselves in.The problem with most anthology films is that they almost always fail to maintain a consistent tone and rarely are they effective as a whole. V/H/S is bogged down by the same set of issues, for some of its shorts are genuinely creepy & competently crafted while the rest are simply absurd. Even the frame narrative, directed by Adam Wingard, fails to keep things tight and lacks a proper closure.In addition to that, all the stories have more or less the same narrative structure, and each one of them feels longer than they needed to be. Rarely much happens in any of the stories for the most part and when it does, it's too quick & over before you know it. The POV camera-work itself varies in execution, ranging from excellent to terrible, while Editing fails to trim out the excess fat from each tales.The only one that I really liked was Amateur Night which follows a group of three friends who bring two women back with them to their hotel room and plan to record the activity on a hidden camera but are one of the women isn't what she seems to be. For the most part, it's just as mediocre as the rest of the shorts but its ending is powerful, chilling & frightening. A couple others come close but this is the only one I enjoyed sitting through.On an overall scale, V/H/S neither captivates as a found-footage horror nor impresses as an anthology feature. All the shorts suffer from weak & boring story lines, none feature a compelling character, each episode is poorly edited, hand-held camera-work is all over the place, and it packs more gore than genuine scares. Anthology films are either a hit or miss, often the latter on most occasions, and V/H/S is another disappointing addition to that particular list.