#14: V/H/S (2012)

V/H/S (2012):

V/H/S is a 2012 American horror film which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year. It features a series of found-footage shorts written and directed by Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg and the directing quartet called Radio Silence.

V/H/S is a film about a group of guys that are hired by an unknown to break into a house and steal a V/H/S. The group of guys break into the house and while searching for the VHS they find an old man who seems to be dead. He is laying on a couch in front of a bunch of TVs. By those TVs lies tons of VHS'. The guys split in search of more VHS' and only one stays by the TVs. The guy that stays begins to put in VHS' to watch them. We are shown what each of the VHS' contain. All of these videos are scary/ crazy murder videos. They all contain footage that is scary in an unexpected way. Everything in the film is paranormal. After we watch a couple of the VHS' and the guys decide to leave the place, they are encountered by the man that seemed to be dead.

V/H/S was pretty good and pretty scary. It's the type of scary that you end up saying, "What the fuck just happened". It an unexpected fear. Personally, I found all the stories extremely creative. They were unexpected and really well scripted. It's not the type of scary film where I can't sleep at night, but it did make me jump and trip out. I also really enjoyed all the special effect. The special effects and costume design were really well thought of and really well made. The movie wouldn't have been as scary without all those special effects. The one thing I didn't like were the excessive handhelds. The movie is pure handhelds, Blair Witch style. It can get a little dizzy and sometimes its hard to follow whats going on, but I guess it dad add a lot of that suspense and shock for certain scenes.

Overall I thought it was a really well made horor and definitely freaked me out. I was expecting it to be a little bit more scary though. I liked it. Watch it if you are down for a good paranormal horror.