V/H/S

When i was 14 years old, me and my best friends started collecting VHS movies. We bought VHS movies, and of course recorded movies on different movie channels. I still keep some of the VHS movies i bought many years ago, they are nostalgic, and some are very hard to find. Nowdays when the technology have become so much better, VHS tapes are ancient history. And the quality of course is a big difference. After so many documentary horror movies come out, V/H/S looks different, made into 6 stories. Do we finally have a horror movie that dares to try a different style, or is this not what we expected at all ?

Tape 56

A group of young criminals, try and find new ways of upgrade their crimes. They enter a house in hope to find a certain VHS tape. In a room filled with tv´s, an old man is dead. The young men begin to watch some of the VHS tapes, but the content is something they could never have imagined.

Amateur Night

3 guys go out to get laid, and to party. They manage to bring 2 girls with them to their hotel room. But what begins as a threesome, is not turning out what anyone of them planned.

Second Honeymoon

Sam and Stephanie, a married couple, go out on a second honeymoon, to travel through the west, visiting a Wild West theme park also. Everything is going great, until a strange woman knocks on their hotel door. Who is she, and what does she want ?

Tuesday the 17th

4 young people travel on a camping trip. One of the girls, Wendy, tells her friends about what happened at this lake a year ago, when she was the only survivor of the brutal murders of her friends. Since they don´t care about Wendy´s words, the rest of the friends party on smoking pot. But as the party goes on, something strange is happening in the woods.

The Sick Thing That Happened To Emily When She Was Younger

Emily is video chatting to her doctor-to-be-boyfriend, James. She tell James about strange noises in her appartment, and try to show him at night, by filming a young boy who seems to come back for a reason. As Emily begin filming to show James online, more bizarre events are about to come.

10/31/98

4 guys dress up to a Halloween party. As they arrive to the house, where the Halloween party is supposed to be, the house is empty. But as soon as they check around, they realise that there might be someone else in here.


The best part about V/H/S is that they have tried to make this, as a Twilight Zone concept, done in a documentary way. And i like that. Since so many movies have followed the Paranormal Activity genre, its great to see a different perspective, by telling different stories in almost 2 hours. The stories have different quality, but this is nicely put together as a puzzle, as you begin to understand what this is all about. My only problem with V/H/S is that some of the actors, are not very impressive. They may become actors in the future, who knows, but some of them are not really good. Thankfully V/H/S is a good example of film making, when you try something different. And for that i have to give the 6 directors of these stories, a big applaude. V/H/S may not be ground breaking in any way, but if you like a different approach on horror, this may work for you if you have an open mind.

Rating: DDD