Six indie directors of the mumblecore persuasion contribute to this unpredictable lo-fi found-footage anthology, and the biggest twist is its consistently high quality. A framing story sets up a house full of video tapes documenting strange and alarming phenomena. The rest of the stories make up the contents of those cassettes: each skewering a particular horror genre in as amusingly creative a manner as possible. Vampires, slashers, road-trippers and exorcists all get the off-kilter treatment. Anything goes, and all of it works.
V/H/S Review
A posse of misfits is recruited by a shadowy third party to rob a house for a prized VHS cassette. But what they discover there isn't the easy job they'd imagined.
Release Date:
18 Jan 2013
Running Time:
113 minutes
Certificate:
18
Original Title:
V/H/S
Like last year's Chronicle, here's another reminder that in the right hands found footage still has plenty of capacity to surprise.
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