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Also Known As: S-VHS |
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| Year of first release: 2013 | |
| Director: Simon Barrett, Jason Eisener (The ABCs of Death, Hobo with a Shotgun), Gareth Evans (The Raid), Gregg Hale, Eduardo Sánchez (The Blair Witch Project), Timo Tjahjanto, Adam Wingard (You're Next) | |
| Actors: Lawrence Michael Levine, Kelsy Abbott, Adam Wingard | |
| Country: USA, CDN, RI | |
| Genre: Horror | |
| Conditions of visioning: 06.09.2013, CINEMA theater, MFFF2013 and 13.09.2013, Sao Jorge Theater, MotelX2013 | |
| Synopsis: A couple of detectives is hired to break into a house and have a look at the video tapes found there. | |
| Review: This anthology (film a sketches) follows exactly the same principle as the first V/H/S and my positive review of the format applies to this second episode as well. Moreover it includes a new set of ideas for horrific sketches filmed with consumer cameras: digital eye, GoPro-type sport camera, amateur documentary VHS-recorders, spy-cams, building security cameras. I liked a lot the stories and the editing of the found footage, except for the usual abuse of audio and video noise. My favorite story (A Ride in the Park) is the one of a cyclist attacked by zombies and becoming one. What is funny is that we follow his adventures through the GoPro camera attached to his helmet. The segment with the digital eye (Phase I Clinical Trials) is very interesting because of the unique point of view, even more involving than when in the first V/H/S a guy had a spycam inside his glasses. One of the segments (Safe Haven) is about a sect in Indonesia and it is pretty gore and horrific. The least good is the last one (Slumber Party Alien Invasion) because very shaky and noisy, but it is also the shortest. As in the first V/H/S the segment envelopping all others (Tape 49) is quite OK. |
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Rating: 7 /10
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Monday, September 9, 2013
V/H/S 2 (2013)
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I watched this movie in MotelX2013 on 13.09.2013. I did not know VHS and have been quite well surprised by the format and the envelopping story. Then of course we cannot expect that out of several shorts all of them are great. But there are very good ideas. I really liked Safe Haven. Sometimes exagerated, in order to get the most possible out of a simple pitch. The message inherent in this kind of horror movie is clearly visible here also, even in a short format. So well done. Rating 7/10.
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