For today’s entry to Eddie’s 31 Days Of Halloween, I chose what I believed to be the best found footage horror films out there in the V/H/S series which we covered the first film before. So, I decided to watch the sequel which has us following a couple of private investigators as they look for a woman’s missing son. When they go to his apartment to find some clues, they stumble upon a pile of old VHS cassettes and they decide to watch these tapes. Some of the different sequences on here feature a guy who because of an eye camera implant starts seeing spirits, a zombie with a go-pro camera on his head, the weirdest ever trip to a suicidal cult pact you’ll ever see, and an alien abduction caught on camera. The film stars Lawrence Michael Levine (Gabi On the Roof In July) as Larry, Kelsy Abbott (Arrow) as Ayesha, L.C. Holt (You’re Next) as Kyle, Adam Wingard (V/H/S) as Herman, Hannah Hughes (Pop Skull) as Clarissa, Jay Saunders (Ninjas Vs Monsters) as Biker, Hannah Al Rashid (Ritual) as Lena, Samantha Gracie (Seed) as Jen, and the segments and film were directed by Gareth Evans (The Raid 2), Simon Barrett (You’re Next), Gregg Hale (The Blair Witch Project), Eduardo Sánchez (The Blair Witch Project), Timo Tjahjanto (The ABC’s Of Death), and Adam Wingard also directs.
Anytime, you get one of these films with multiple short films in one, there is always one that is your favorite. This was definitely a hard one to choose because so many of them could make a case for itself as to which one was better. The only thing that I ask is that some of them make no sense in a certain aspect and I will explain this to you. The only segment that made a little sense was the suicide pact one that I described above and that is because they used actual cameras to film whatever it was they were filming. You have to remember one thing is that all of the different footage are caught on VHS tape. So, two of the shorts were recorded with a Go Pro camera which is way past the time of VHS and every thing is on a flash memory. One of the other segments, the dude has a camera in his eye, so the way his footage would outputted would be digitally. Nevertheless, my favorite overall would have to be the zombie go pro with the craziest segment award going to the suicide pact. They definitely upped the stakes for this film from the last one and I definitely cannot wait for the next installment of V/H/S. I am giving this film a B+ for a final grade.
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