V/H/S (2012)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2012
	Director: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, David Bruckner, Ti West (The Innkeepers, Cabin Fever 2) and 7 others.
	Actors: Calvin Reeder, Lane Hughes, Adam Wingard
	Country: USA
	Genre: Horror
	Conditions of visioning: 28.08.2012, CINEMA theater, MFFF2012
Synopsis: A group of young vandals is paid to retreive a videotape from an old house. To find the right one they will have to watch segments of videos more bizarre one than the other...
Review: I found that the format of the anthology (film à sketch, like The Theatre Bizarre or Body Bags) applies well to the found footage genre (REC, Diary of the Dead), especially because you don't have to stand the same actors in front of a shaky camera for 2 hours. In the case of V/H/S you have different actors in front of a shaky camera for 2 hours. The variety of stories and supports is however interesting. There are old video cameras, webcams, "helmet"-cameras and even miniaturized ones in glasses. The stories are about monsters, killer in the woods, haunted house or home invasion. Don't be annoyed by the awful 10 first minutes (shaky camera, poor image quality, saturated sounds, inaudible dialogs), the variety of stories will keep you awake for the rest of the movie, and even pretty scared! Note that the image quality is VHS-style throughout the film, and not at all HD and clean like you can see in other recent found footage movies, which helps you believe more in it.
Rating: 6 /10