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Seen on: 09/02/2012

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V/H/S (2012)

Directed by Joe Swanberg, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Glenn McQuaid, Adam Wingard, Ti West, David Bruckner, Tyler Gillett, Justin Martinez, Chad Villella

Horror | Thriller

Most recently watched by sensoria, krazykat, sleestakk, noahphex, Javitron, noahphex, BTSjunkie, BTSjunkie

Overview

When a group of misfits is hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire one rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they had bargained for.

Rated R | Length 116 minutes

Actors

Joe Swanberg | Matt Bettinelli-Olpin | Jason Yachanin | Glenn McQuaid | Adam Wingard | Lane Hughes | Kentucker Audley | Hannah Fierman | John Walcutt | Kate Lyn Sheil | Calvin Reeder | Sophia Takal | Tyler Gillett | Chad Villella | Mike Donlan | Joe Sykes | Drew Sawyer | Nicholas Tecosky | Drew Moerlein | Helen Rogers | Paul Natonek | Nicole Erb | Bilal Mir | Damion Stephens | Koz McRae | Eric Curtis | Nicole Boccumini | Lisa Marie Thomas | Melinda Fleming | Rob Mosca | Daniel Kaufman | Liz Harvey | Jasper Lewis | Norma C. Quinones

Viewing Notes

Our final film for movie night, another we rented from Xfinity OnDemand (Klown was the other). I’d seen mixed reviews of this but felt I’d probably like it even though I don’t always respond well to found footage style films. The fact that this was a horror anthology lent it a bit of a different feel as well.

The majority of the segments were great: I especially liked the first two segments (one directed by Ti West, who continues to do great work). I liked the premise of the wraparound story but it did feel like it needed to be fleshed out a bit more at the end.

One of my problems with POV/found footage films is that the shaky camerawork can cause me to get motion sickness. A did get a bit of that during portions of two of the segments, getting, literally, physically ill from it. Certainly not the fault of the film, just one of those issues I have.

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