Searching for a missing student, two private investigators break into his house and find collection of VHS tapes. Read more …
Viewing the horrific contents of each cassette, they realize there may be dark motives behind the student's disappearance.
The final product is a lo-fi, handheld hellraiser with a varying success rate but with more ballsy gusto than most mainstream horrors.
There are some dull stretches here, but also some grisly instant hits: nasty, deplorable, vulgar and sometimes brilliant.
Gareth Evans's short gets a 4, the rest are all 1s and 2s.
Slicker than the original without the sudden lurches in quality, this second shaky-cam horror anthology still has a standout sequence by which all the others must be judged.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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