Showing posts with label found footage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label found footage. Show all posts

Sunday, March 9, 2014

V/H/S 2

This is actually not as bad as the first part. Who'd have thought?

The one story that ties all the others together is of a pair of PI's breaking into a house because they are looking for some college kid and what they find instead is a collection of video tapes. Some of the footage has no business ending up on ancient VHS tapes, but let's leave that aside for a minute.

A few of these stories are sort of intriguing...in a WTF? kind of way.

The guy with the artificial eye, though? Really? It's all well that he sees dead people walking around, but why does the eye camera record them? Isn't there a horror film law against that?

Of course, there would be zombies, as they are all the rage these days. The excuse for the footage here is a camera on the bicycle helmet of a mountain biker. No point asking again why this would end up on a video tape rather than, say, youtube.

I got into the suicide cult one. Here, it actually made total sense that there would be cameras as a team just happened to interview the cult leader when it suddenly "became time" and everyone started killing each other and themselves. Then at some point, the whole episode turns sideways and gets really, really weird. We are again entering zombie territory and what may well be the devil himself makes an appearance.

What is the best way to piss off your sister who is having some friends over on the family jetty, ready to dive into the water at any second? Squirt guns? Water balloons? Seriously? Aren't those people there to get wet? But then, right when your imbecile brothers and their friends (those little shits) are getting really annoying, the aliens arrive.

....and in case you're wondering how long it takes to reach full frontal nudity, the answer is 1 min.

4/10

Saturday, November 10, 2012

V/H/S

Another "found footage" film. Just what we've all been waiting for, right?

A group of bad guys steal a collection of video tapes for some unnamed source. All the little films are, like, totally scary and stuff.

One is about a female vampire (I think) that first has sex with a trio of friends and then starts to kill them. Not that they deserve any better, those idiots. Personally, I would not hang on to the video camera I am carrying when I am already injured and trying to escape said vampire.

But, hey, that's just me.

Then there is this couple on a road trip who film the most trivial and boring things. Then they are the ones being filmed while asleep in some cheap motel room. The couple is predictably boring and the tape mostly is, as well. At least, there is a nice twist. The guy dies.

Oh good, tape no. 3 is of a group of young people going to some lake in the woods. After two minutes of first seeing them you can't wait for them to die, they are such assholes. They do. And...here is a little something I will record whenever I come across it:

DEAD CHEERLEADER ALERT!!!

Wait, the next segment is a video chat, not a VHS tape. How would this have ended up on a tape. This is cheating! One feed comes from inside a hunted apartment. There may be aliens involved. Or ghosts. Or something.

Lastly, the obligatory Halloween segment.

This is oh so bad.

1/10