More of the same.
The "tie everything together" story is pretty much the same shit. This time a private detective is sent to investigate the disappearance of a young man. For some reason, he takes his girlfriend. She starts watching the VHS tapes they find in the home.
That story is very boring, and somehow they still found a way to show tits and a dick. Something they loved to do in V/H/S.
The first tape's story was interesting. I could see someone doing a feature length film on this topic. Really strong concept and executed sort of well, but all logic in the story is warped. I mean, if the girl survived decades without being in danger, why does it only take them 24 hours to get to him? Stupid, lazy writing. Nothing explained at all. Like why does fucking drive them away?
The second tape's story was pretty cool, but suffers from more bad writing. This is about a mountain biker with a Go Pro camera on his head. Soon he comes across zombies, and well, you can probably figure the rest out. It's kind of cool, but the ending is really stupid.
The third tape was about a film crew going to a cult compound to do an interview with their leader. They don't know it, but today is the cult's D-Day. This one was easily my favorite. The rules they establish sort of go out the window towards the end, and a lot is unexplained, but it's a cool story.
The fourth tape was just terrible. No real story, bad acting, bad directing, and the shakiest shaky cam I've ever seen combined with purposely bad lighting and static. I'd honestly just call it unwatchable.
I'd call the first V/H/S the superior movie. In fact, if you're interested in these movies, I'd watch this one first, and that one last.
Neither are great movies, but they're entertaining enough for the season.
V/H/S 2
The search function on this forum SUCKS. Searched for "V/H/S" and "VHS", but neither found the tread. Had to simply search for "V" and it was there in the 10th fucking page of the results.
Here's the thread for the original movie.
Here's the thread for the original movie.
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