Friday, January 25, 2013

DVD Daily 01/25/13























V/H/S (2012)
Staring: Calvin Reeder, Lane Hughes, Adam Wingard

Synopsis: (Courtesy of IMDB) 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 then they bargained for.

"V/H/S" is another film in the overly saturated found footage category.  Unlike most other found footage films, this one does have a bit of a fresh feeling as it is also an anthology movie, wrapped in another developing story.

As the men hired to locate a VHS tape from a run down home enter the house, they find a body surrounded by a pile of unlabeled VHS tapes.  Not knowing what the tape they are supposed to find looks like, they decide to split up and search the house while one stays behind to investigate the tapes in the TV room.

This is where the found footage idea comes into play. As the robber places each tape into the VCR, we get a new found footage film, a total of 5 films (not counting the robber story), each directed by different directors.

While V/H/S is not a great film, it is not terrible one either.  Although I found no interest in the beginning story of the robbers, I enjoyed some of the short films. My favorite being "10/31/98."  This short story revolved around four friends on their way to a Halloween party.  When they arrive at the house, they find it empty and begin to search the house.  Thinking it to be an elaborate Halloween prank, they head to the attic, where they walk in on what looks to be an exorcism being performed on a woman tied to the wall.  When they interrupt out of anger for the brutality being inflicted on the young lady, an angry presence begins attacking the would be exorcists.  The friends untie the girl and attempt to get her out of the house, the house itself comes to life as it tries to stop them.

The other short stories were good, not great, and none of them were memorable.

The acting is mediocre, no stand out performances, but then again, this is a semi low budget independent horror film.  So I guess you can not expect much.

While I can not highly recommend this film, I will say if you enjoy horror films and find yourself sitting staring at the wall, it couldn't hurt to turn it on.

I give "V/H/S" 2 VHS tape rewinders out of 5:









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