NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

CinemaClown A horror anthology of five short films tied together by a sixth short that weaves a narrative around the entire stuff, V/H/S merges found-footage style with anthology format and allows up-n-coming filmmakers to showcase their talents by giving them free creative reign over a blank canvas but it's an opportunity wasted, as most of them chip in with mediocre entries.The basic premise of V/H/S follows the exploits of a criminal gang who are offered a large sum of money by a third party in exchange for breaking into a desolate house and acquiring a particular VHS tape. Upon searching the house, they discover a dead body and hundreds of unmarked VHS tapes but the longer they take to find the right tape, the more danger they put themselves in.The problem with most anthology films is that they almost always fail to maintain a consistent tone and rarely are they effective as a whole. V/H/S is bogged down by the same set of issues, for some of its shorts are genuinely creepy & competently crafted while the rest are simply absurd. Even the frame narrative, directed by Adam Wingard, fails to keep things tight and lacks a proper closure.In addition to that, all the stories have more or less the same narrative structure, and each one of them feels longer than they needed to be. Rarely much happens in any of the stories for the most part and when it does, it's too quick & over before you know it. The POV camera-work itself varies in execution, ranging from excellent to terrible, while Editing fails to trim out the excess fat from each tales.The only one that I really liked was Amateur Night which follows a group of three friends who bring two women back with them to their hotel room and plan to record the activity on a hidden camera but are one of the women isn't what she seems to be. For the most part, it's just as mediocre as the rest of the shorts but its ending is powerful, chilling & frightening. A couple others come close but this is the only one I enjoyed sitting through.On an overall scale, V/H/S neither captivates as a found-footage horror nor impresses as an anthology feature. All the shorts suffer from weak & boring story lines, none feature a compelling character, each episode is poorly edited, hand-held camera-work is all over the place, and it packs more gore than genuine scares. Anthology films are either a hit or miss, often the latter on most occasions, and V/H/S is another disappointing addition to that particular list.

smoothtacomann This is no masterpiece by any means. I went into this movie with low expectations, from what I have heard this movie was pretty horrid with not much much horror. Luckily for the film I had some time to kill. So I turned off the lights in my room, got comfortable and turned on the movie. Surprisingly I did not hate this movie as much as I thought I would have. VHS not something you should take serious as a film but, I also don't think its trying that hard to be taken serious either. Throwing my artsy opinions about films away I had a fun time. Check it out you might have an okay time like I did.

amkulm While the stories are fairly standard, I'd argue that this is one of the best executions of found footage to ever come from the horror genre, with dynamic, realistic and non overwhelming cinematography and logical justifications for why the characters would bother to have cameras. Worth watching.

FountainPen Yes, one reviewer referred to this "movie" as "Total Garbage". He was being extremely kind. This "film" was clearly made by a group of morons, an adolescent pack of individuals who will probably NEVER grow up, who find humour in the lowest common denominator, the basest human functions and thoughts, and derive joy from showing the world (or at least however many people will be unfortunate enough to view this abortion) how asinine they are. The crew and "actors" are not even sufficiently pretentious to be able to demonstrate the slightest understanding of cinematography, plot development, direction... well, you see where I'm heading: straight to the toilet to throw up after the first ten minutes of this Californian offering. There would be more entertainment value in watching someone wash out his or her soiled underpants. I wonder where all these "performers" will be in, say, ten years' time? Wasted with drugs? Begging on the streets? Making a speech in Parliament? You will be better off spending 1.75 hours sleeping, believe me. This "film" is far, far beyond "Total Garbage" ~ that is its one distinction, and I do mean "stink".