Type: Found-footage, Horror Movie
Review:
You know what is the real problem with the film making industry? It is the fact that once someone makes a really awesome movie with a unique and creative style, everybody tries to go down his way because it's money we're talking here.
Found-footage films were really cool at first, Thriller/Horror movies' fans would definitely remember titles such as: Cannibal Holocaust(1980), The Blair Witch Project (1999), Rec (2007) or Paranormal Activity (2007) because they were, unlike anything we've ever seen before, creepy as hell, and even though they have a lot of things in common, each one of them has a unique style of storytelling, unlike the massive amount of found-footage movies that have become so increasingly predictable and boring.
V/H/S is about a group of misfits hired by a mysterious third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire a rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they bargained and they split up to search the other parts of the house, one of them starts to view some tapes that were already near the TV set and discovers that they contain strange and shocking videos.
You want my honest opinion? Nothing... Really nothing!!!
The mediocre execution resulted in a boring, story-less, crappy movie that lacks direction, and don't get me started on the acting or the script and how terrible they are since most of the characters - for a huge part of the film - are just walking around aimlessly, and segment after segment I waited for V/H/S to develop some sort of sense so I can understand why people were making such a fuss about it but my waiting was in vain.
Found-footage films were really cool at first, Thriller/Horror movies' fans would definitely remember titles such as: Cannibal Holocaust(1980), The Blair Witch Project (1999), Rec (2007) or Paranormal Activity (2007) because they were, unlike anything we've ever seen before, creepy as hell, and even though they have a lot of things in common, each one of them has a unique style of storytelling, unlike the massive amount of found-footage movies that have become so increasingly predictable and boring.
So what's so awesome about V/H/S?
You want my honest opinion? Nothing... Really nothing!!!
They say: "Two captains sink the ship", but what if it has like 6 of them? I bet that ship won't get anywhere!
That's exactly what happened with V/H/S, it was made by 6 directors, each one of them worked on a segment, the idea of the movie is brilliant but they wanted to make it as mainstream as possible by adding all the stuff that's been going on Hollywood for the last ten years (Vampires, Teenage Gangs, Killers that pop up out of nowhere and start killing people...).
So if you had high expectations about it you'd be highly disappointed, because it's just another Found-footage Horror movie and it's not even worth watching.
Thriller Info: [Source Wikipedia]
Directed by: Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, Radio SilenceProduced by: Brad Miska, David Gary Binkow, Roxanne Benjamin
Written by: David Bruckner, Glenn McQuaid, Ti West, Chad Villella, Justin Martinez, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Nicholas Tecosky, Simon Barrett, Tyler Gillett
Starring: A lot of Unknown Actors
Release date: January 22, 2012
Running time: 116 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Budget: $40,000,000
Box Office $100.345
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