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V/H/S (18)

V/H/S (18)

Horror, Mystery

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.


The critical consensus

Some of the segments are more successful than others, but all of them could do with better actors. And a tripod; two hours of shaky cam makes it very tempting to press “eject”.

**(*)(*)(*)Siobhan Synnot, The Scotsman, 13/01/2013

Fails to fulfil its grisly potential.

**(*)(*)(*)Chris Buckle, The Skinny, 14/01/2013

Difficult to watch because of the style in which it is shot, and hard to stomach due to the extreme violence. A video nasty indeed.

*(*)(*)(*)(*)Alison Rowat, The Herald, 17/01/2013

Energetic and intermittently entertaining.

***(*)(*)Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 17/01/2013

There's nothing here you haven't seen done better in Vacancy, Paranormal Activity or even Sinister.

Anthony Quinn, The Independent, 17/01/2013

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

Allan Hunter, Daily Express, 18/01/2013

V/H/S shows there’s a little bit of fight left in it the found-footage horror subgenre yet.

***(*)(*)Tim Robey, The Telegraph, 17/01/2013

Spectacular hits and forgivable misses make this a surefire candidate for cult status.

Charlie Lyne, Little White Lies, 17/01/2013

Like last year's Chronicle, here's another reminder that in the right hands found footage still has plenty of capacity to surprise.

****(*)Owen Williams, Empire Online, 18/01/2013


Features about V/H/S (18)

Director Glenn McQuaid on horror anthology V/H/S

Henry Northmore, The List, 21/01/2013

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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