V/H/S
Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Calvin Lee ReederGary (segment "Tape 56")
- Lane HughesZak (segment "Tape 56")
- Kentucker AudleyRox (segment "Tape 56")
- Adam WingardBrad (segment "Tape 56")
- Joe SwanbergSam (segment "Second Honeymoon")
- Sophia TakalStephanie (segment "Second Honeymoon")
- Kate Lyn SheilThe Stalker (segment "Second Honeymoon")
- Hannah FiermanLily (segment "Amateur Night")
- Mike DonlanShane (segment "Amateur Night")
- Joe SykesPatrick (segment "Amateur Night")
Recommendations
- 83
The Playlist
V/H/S delivers the thrills and chills craftily and with a better batting average than usual. - 80
Boxoffice Magazine
Sure it's fun - and painful - but it's not thin. - 75
The A.V. Club
It also, in its best moments, makes horror out of the 21st-century obsession with self-documentation. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Refreshingly, V/H/S promises no more than it delivers, always a plus with genre fare. - 63
Slant Magazine
An anthology of found-footage horror shorts that exudes, sometimes extraordinarily, a neophyte's sense of courage and cluelessness. - 50
Variety
The segments vary in quality and the whole overstays its welcome at nearly two hours. - 50
Village Voice
In too many of the shorts, bad acting quickly undermines the "authenticity" the aesthetics labor to achieve. - 50
Salon
I'm not sure V/H/S is brilliant cinema or anything – indeed, I'm not sure it's appropriate to call it cinema at all – but it sure is an ingenious hybrid: part Godardian art film, part abstract video experiment, part sleazy shocker, and all self-castigating interrogation of what film-theory types call the "male gaze."
