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.
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”.
Fails to fulfil its grisly potential.
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.
Energetic and intermittently entertaining.
There's nothing here you haven't seen done better in Vacancy, Paranormal Activity or even Sinister.
This has been attracting a lot of enthusiasm from horror buffs but it is hard to see why.
Smart, scary stuff.
V/H/S shows there’s a little bit of fight left in it the found-footage horror subgenre yet.
Spectacular hits and forgivable misses make this a surefire candidate for cult status.
Like last year's Chronicle, here's another reminder that in the right hands found footage still has plenty of capacity to surprise.
A hit-and-miss affair.
Director Glenn McQuaid on horror anthology V/H/S
General release. Check local listings for show times.