Strung together, it's way too much of a muchness. What's the point? None of the segments is particularly compelling. It plays more like a student project in which several short films were cobbled together in the popular found-footage horror genre to masquerade as a feature. ![]() ![]() Since it's such a muddle, I don't understand how any of them hope to stand out. The idea, I gather, is that "V/H/S" is sort of a showcase for its young directors and actors. One of the pleasures or punishments of the film is that we're not always sure when we have left one story and entered another. The overall film consists of this linking film and five other stories, each with a different director and different casts - with slight overlapping of actors.ĭo you want to hear the five stories? Better you should make sense of them yourself. While one of the group stays to look at some of the video, the others explore the house and make more unsettling discoveries. After routine haunted-house scares, they come upon the house's owner, sitting dead and decomposing in front of a wall of video monitors. A group of masked intruders break into a house on a mission to retrieve certain videotapes. The first, "Tape 56," explains the other five. It's an anthology of six separate horror stories shot in low-definition VHS. ![]() "V/H/S" is an example of the genre at its least compelling. " Paranormal Activity" is the best subsequent example of a found-footage film.
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