V/H/S

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V/H/S

R

2012

1h 55m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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Hired to steal a rare VHS tape from a remote house, a ragtag band of crooks finds a dead body, old TVs and a lot of cryptic footage.

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Critics Consensus

An uneven collection of found-footage horror films, V/H/S has some inventive scares but its execution is hit-and-miss.

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London Evening Standard

01/18/2013

2/5

A nauseating experience on every level.

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

01/17/2013

4/5

Smart, scary stuff.

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Tim Robey

Daily Telegraph (UK)

01/17/2013

3/5

Several of the shorts build ingeniously, and their brevity solves the serial problem of found footage, which is how to maintain interest and plausibility in shaky-cam antics for a whole feature.

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Sydney Lee

Horror Movie Talk

Dec 4

9/10

I really enjoy this movie, how it switches from a slowburn creep out to a ghost story to a slasher and so on. I think it is a great movie to get you into horror, it is a great movie to revisit, it is a great movie period.

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Brian Bisesi

Horror Movie Club Podcast

10/25/2023

4/5

V/H/S is hindered by the onslaught of unlikable, misogynistic characters in nearly every one of its segments, but it succeeds due to creative premises and the effective use of the found footage technique to achieve shocking, intense, and scary moments.

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Patrick Cavanaugh

The Wolfman Cometh

09/24/2023

4/5

A diverse blend of horrors that all have an organic connection to one another to justify the found-footage format.

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James E

@JamesE167 Jul 16

This is not the deepest film, but it is very uncomfortable and creepy from start to finish.

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Ellisa L

@RT79638754 Jun 3

Lame plot with constant shaky scenes that make you nauseous. Very hard on your eyes Wasted 2 hours of my life

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Kris T

@RT26407207 May 5

V/H/S feels less like a horror film and more like someone found a damaged SD card and decided to traumatize you with it. The acting swings between "convincing panic" and "did they just read this line for the first time?", and the CGI (when it shows up) looks like it was rendered on a toaster from 2008. The real villain though is the camera work—constant shaky, dizzying, nausea-inducing chaos that turns every segment into a headache simulator. It tries to be gritty and found-footage scary, but mostly ends up feeling like your TV is having a meltdown while people scream in the background.

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Jorge H

@jorge02 Apr 25

Every director specially my favorite one David Bruckner show real horror in their segments, a true example of how to make a horror film using smartness, V/H/S 4ever!

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Shoham C

@Chara331 Mar 25

every movie that has people having their genitals ripped off is a bad movie no matter how good the plot is, the plot isnt great neither, infact i dont know why the critics even gave it a 50%. not only is it cheap gore porn, its also strait porn. (i said straight like that on purpose)

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Joaquin U

@Joaquin1 Feb 1

Lots of ideas but bad writting. Very amateurish, like a school project. Still, if you want mindless horror for a lazy night, this will do.

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Synopsis

Hired to steal a rare VHS tape from a remote house, a ragtag band of crooks finds a dead body, old TVs and a lot of cryptic footage.

Director: David Bruckner, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, Ti West, Adam Wingard
Producer: Gary Binkow, Roxanne Benjamin, Brad Miska
Screenwriter: Simon Barrett, David Bruckner, Tyler Gillett, Justin Martinez, Glenn McQuaid, Nicholas Tecosky, Ti West, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Chad Villella
Distributor: Magnet Releasing
Production Co: The Collective
Rating: R (Graphic Nudity|Bloody Violence|Pervasive Language|Some Drug Use|Strong Sexuality)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 5, 2012, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 5, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $65.1K
Runtime: 1h 55m