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Hired to steal a rare VHS tape from a remote house, a ragtag band of crooks finds a dead body, old TVs and a lot of cryptic footage.

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An uneven collection of found-footage horror films, V/H/S has some inventive scares but its execution is hit-and-miss.

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London Evening Standard 01/18/2013
2/5
A nauseating experience on every level. Go to Full Review
Peter Bradshaw Guardian 01/17/2013
4/5
Smart, scary stuff. Go to Full Review
Tim Robey Daily Telegraph (UK) 01/17/2013
3/5
Several of the shorts build ingeniously, and their brevity solves the serial problem of found footage, which is how to maintain interest and plausibility in shaky-cam antics for a whole feature. Go to Full Review
Sydney Lee Horror Movie Talk Dec 4
9/10
I really enjoy this movie, how it switches from a slowburn creep out to a ghost story to a slasher and so on. I think it is a great movie to get you into horror, it is a great movie to revisit, it is a great movie period. Go to Full Review
Brian Bisesi Horror Movie Club Podcast 10/25/2023
4/5
V/H/S is hindered by the onslaught of unlikable, misogynistic characters in nearly every one of its segments, but it succeeds due to creative premises and the effective use of the found footage technique to achieve shocking, intense, and scary moments. Go to Full Review
Patrick Cavanaugh The Wolfman Cometh 09/24/2023
4/5
A diverse blend of horrors that all have an organic connection to one another to justify the found-footage format. Go to Full Review
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Kris T @RT26407207 3d V/H/S feels less like a horror film and more like someone found a damaged SD card and decided to traumatize you with it. The acting swings between "convincing panic" and "did they just read this line for the first time?", and the CGI (when it shows up) looks like it was rendered on a toaster from 2008. The real villain though is the camera work—constant shaky, dizzying, nausea-inducing chaos that turns every segment into a headache simulator. It tries to be gritty and found-footage scary, but mostly ends up feeling like your TV is having a meltdown while people scream in the background. See more Jorge H @jorge02 Apr 25 Every director specially my favorite one David Bruckner show real horror in their segments, a true example of how to make a horror film using smartness, V/H/S 4ever! See more Shoham C @Chara331 Mar 25 every movie that has people having their genitals ripped off is a bad movie no matter how good the plot is, the plot isnt great neither, infact i dont know why the critics even gave it a 50%. not only is it cheap gore porn, its also strait porn. (i said straight like that on purpose) See more Joaquin U @Joaquin1 Feb 1 Lots of ideas but bad writting. Very amateurish, like a school project. Still, if you want mindless horror for a lazy night, this will do. See more Caila J @Aliac Jan 20 What’s even the plot? Bad movie See more Charlie H @Qwertyuiop912 Jan 17 Very good and scary but not much story See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Hired to steal a rare VHS tape from a remote house, a ragtag band of crooks finds a dead body, old TVs and a lot of cryptic footage.
Director
David Bruckner, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, Ti West, Adam Wingard
Producer
Gary Binkow, Roxanne Benjamin, Brad Miska
Screenwriter
Simon Barrett, David Bruckner, Tyler Gillett, Justin Martinez, Glenn McQuaid, Nicholas Tecosky, Ti West, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Chad Villella
Distributor
Magnet Releasing
Production Co
The Collective
Rating
R (Graphic Nudity|Bloody Violence|Pervasive Language|Some Drug Use|Strong Sexuality)
Genre
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 5, 2012, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Dec 5, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$65.1K
Runtime
1h 55m