Just saw the movie V/H/S and it was awful.

Its an indie film on Netflix that looked interesting, and its just been garbage. Acting is weak across the board. Some jump scares. Its basically a set of 5 VHS tapes found and being watched with a loose storing of petty thieves watching these tapes in a house they are supposed to be robbing. (What are they stealing? You guessed it, a special VHS tape.) The tapes do not relate to each other at all. They all start with a unrelated group of people and part way through is when the 'creepy twists' happen. There is nothing remarkable about each tape. The ideas presented are interesting, but executed so poorly it frustrating. Also the movies do not relate to what happens to the main plot with the thieves. Its basically a bunch of stories that end with WTF?!

Literally its just a movie with gore, boobs, and things that are just wtf?

Has anyone else seen this awful movie?

I think you just didn't get the movie. It's amazing for what it is. I also just saw the sequel, and it's pretty damned good, too. Not all movies need to be cohesive to be great.

Could be I just don't get the point then. I'm not much into a movie centered around the gore. I like horror movies that are just legitimately creepy and scary. I'm more into horror movies more along the Sinister (personally my favorite horror movie.)

I will say that the individual ideas in the movie really had potential. The first one was the best; though the characters in it were a bunch of dumb asses. The twist was obvious in the coming (the really weird chick that hasn't said anything, surprise?) And the end was interesting. The one where the killer was like a video glitch or something was a cool idea, but there was just no explanation and the idea seemed wasted. The last one had some really cool effects and creepy ideas going on with the house (specifically the arms reaching and the door window closing).

The over arching story blew, and the scares were very meh in it (also lol at last tape playing itself)

Probably just really not my thing then. I really just was dissapointed.

I tried watching it once. It was as boring as Blair Witch Project or Paranormal Activity. All three movies sucked due to being boring as hell.

It really is a genuinely horrible movie.

I enjoyed it, though I was pretty dissapointed by the end because it felt like we had no closure. V/H/S2 is more of the same.

I don't find them horrible by any means, but it definetly could be better.

I've never seen the movie.

But I'd definitely recommend you finding a movie critic who really likes the movies you're into because as great as it is to watch random movies for the wonderful discoveries, those discoveries don't come quite often considering the amount of bad movies that exist. To put it another way, the chances of you feeling like you enjoyed your time are higher that way.

I personally enjoyed both VHS movies. They are just a really fun exercise in horror. Really like the idea of getting different filmmakers together to make shorts like those and then try and find a way to loosely tie them together into a movie.

BTW the short "Safe Haven" in the second movie is absolutely AMAZING! Seriously wish that idea could be turned into a full-length movie.

I have a soft spot in my heart for these kinds of movies, I actually enjoyed it quite a bit.

It was an anthology movie. The stories weren't supposed to tie together.

The whole point was that each segment was shot with a video camera, so the quality would be jumpy, and no one was supposed to look like they were acting.

If you don't get it, just stick to the formulaic Hollywood horror films like Saw or Final Destination... you know, safe, predictable, boring as f***.

The movies weren't suppose to relate to one another.

I don't think it's fair to judge a movie if you don't get it.

I watched part of it and it was terrible. I turned it off. :P

A couple of the shorts were pretty weak, but overall I thought it was a decently put together movie. There was some truly scary crap in there, that's for sure.

I saw the last, like, 30 minutes of it and thought it was lame.

All those "recovered footage" movies are bullshit, you'd think they would stop making them.

I've watched both of them (yes, there's a sequel) and I seriously hated how we never know anything about the main plot, there is absolutely no lore, no oracle character or anything, it's just a tape that kills you after you watch them.

The 2nd one is even more ridiculous because it shows events that can in no freaking way remain unknown to the world. There is one about a zombie outbreak in a heavily crowded national park and another one about the birth of the freaking antichrist and yet the guys are calmly watching tapes in a house and the world is still spinning.

Ok you said boobs, I'm in now! :P

If you were expecting a story to tie it all together you'd be disappointed. I judge it based on each tape and the only ones I didn't like were the last one and the one with the group in the woods. The first video is the best in my opinion.

I just have to ask have you actually watched any recent Hollywood horror movies? Hollywood has been AMAZING in the horror department these last two years and the movies aren't anything like Final Destination or Saw (which BTW Saw is anything BUT predictable and I feel the first 3 movies would have made for an excellent trilogy. The series really went to **** though with the final movie being insultingly bad....).

Actually, I've watched several of the recent crop of horror movies, and with the exception of The Conjuring, I've found them formulaic, overly reliant on "jump scares," overly polished and boring.

The Conjuring stood out mostly for using atmosphere rather than gallons of blood, terabytes of CGI, and cheap scares to make the audience spooked. Every time that clock stopped...

I absolutely knew what was coming next as Saw progressed. I almost fell asleep several times as the movie dragged on. I found it extremely dull.

I thought V/H/S was awful too. It was just a poor excuse of a movie to show gore and boobs. I also thought the acting was really poor especially when they pick up that chick at the bar scene. It was hilariously bad

The Conjuring itself was fairly formulaic in it's story but as you said, the atmosphere was absolutely AMAZING and it made for what is easily the creepiest movie experience I have ever had. I seriously think my experience of seeing that movie at it's midnight showing on the night of release with my GF and a good friend of mine will go down as one of the best movie experiences I have EVER had. Being there with a crowd that was really into the movie was just amazing! I also have to give credit to any movie that can make me jump during a second viewing (I saw the movie a second time in the theater and still jumped at a part I won't specify even though I knew what was going to happen...).

Random off-tangent aside, I have to disagree about the recent Hollywood horror movies. I have been really enjoying the horror movies Hollywood has been putting out lately. Even the more average movies like Woman in Black and Mama were WAY better than what Hollywood had been putting out for YEARS! Now that the torture porn and Asian horror remake phases have ended it seems like Hollywood has really been getting back on the ball with the horror genre.

I kind of took notice to the trend when I saw Sinister which turned out to be one of the DARKEST horror movies I have seen. I was genuinely surprised to see a Hollywood horror movie have such a DARK story too it and that was also another movie that totally nailed the atmosphere. As Ethan Hawke kept watching the tapes and you just see these increasingly grizzly scenes it really set a tone. I remember having to turn my head during the yard work tape as I knew exactly what was coming when I saw that tape title....

As for Saw, I find it VERY hard to believe that anyone could find that movie predictable. I would say that was easily one of the most unpredictable movies I have seen and I am fairly certain that twist blew many peoples minds which is why it was so popular.

Here's the thing: I like the horror resurgence. I just dislike the way Hollywood is handling it.

There are some good bigger-budget pictures out there. The Conjuring was amazing to me.

There's just a lot of "safe" films filling in the blanks: remakes, rehashed formulas, adaptations from popular novels. That's what I avoid.

A horror movie should look like V/H/S looked: gritty, barely-glimpsed monsters or killers, and not-so-polished. It takes a lot of the scare out of it when it looks bleeding-edge polished.

As far as Saw... the "twist ending" actually made me laugh. It was so obviously tacked on at the last possible minute...

I will say that I would like to see some more originality in horror. We lately have been getting the originality just through random twists on old tropes (You're Next being a prime example of this). I would love to see a horror movie that was something more than a ghost movie again.

I am curious, have you seen Sinister and what did you think of it? That was another top-notch movie IMO.

I don't mind the polish but I see what you are saying. More gritty horror would be nice. The VHS movies were a lot of fun and man that Safe Haven short was INCREDIBLE!

And for Saws ending, it not being the most plausible ending just makes it that much more of an unpredictable ending. There are ways to accomplish what Jigsaw did in that movie, granted they never flash back to showing Jigsaw learning how to do such a thing or maybe even acquiring a pill or something that would accomplish that. I hope you didn't watch the other movies in the series BTW because that is probably the MOST PLAUSIBLE of the endings as insane as that is. :lol:

wots up juggi

Hey now, I dont like junky hollywood horror movies either. Its hard to find a good horror movie that isnt predictable. Last good on I saw was Sinister.