Until recently the horror anthology was long thought dead
but the popularity of the films 3
Extremes II (2002) and Three…Extremes
(2004), The Theatre Bizarre (2011),
and The ABCs of Death (2012), to name
a few, have sparked the re-emergence of the format. V/H/S (2012)
takes the best of the traditional anthology film and mixes it with the popular
“found footage” film.
In the film a gang of thieves break into a house looking for
a video tape that will yield them a lot of money. Upon entering the house they find a dead body
and a huge assortment of various unlabelled V/H/S tapes. As they decide to look through them one by
one the audience is treated to a plethora of first person stories caught on
video tapes. For audience members
putting the stories in first person is more suspenseful than the traditional
anthology film as you become one of the participants in the story. Each story is very different from each other
despite each having their own monster within.
There is an overwhelming sense of sexuality in each of the
stories which does set this film apart from many others but it also gives the
film a sense of unpredictability as it comes off as being far from the Studio
system of horror films as of late. This
unpredictability is a breath of fresh air for genre aficionados as you never
know what is going to happen from one story to the next. Each story is so different in style and
substance that if you don’t like one of the stories its okay as the next one
will be something entirely different.
Just know that the writers and directors behind this horror
concoction have delivered the goods and this is an anthology to look out for.
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