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V/H/S

Play trailer Poster for V/H/S R,  2012,  1h 55m,  Horror/ Mystery & Thriller Play Trailer Watchlist
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56% Tomatometer 105 Reviews 41% Popcornmeter 10,000+ Ratings
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.
V/H/S

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Critics Consensus

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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Peter Bradshaw Guardian Jan 17, 2013
4/5
Smart, scary stuff. Go to Full Review
Tim Robey Daily Telegraph (UK) Jan 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
Owen Williams Empire Magazine Jan 14, 2013
4/5
Like last year's Chronicle, here's another reminder that in the right hands found footage still has plenty of capacity to surprise. Go to Full Review
Sydney Lee Horror Movie Talk Dec 4, 2025
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 Oct 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 Sep 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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Leia G Mar 27, 2019 Some stories are really good and others, trash.
Finn P Mar 14, 2019 Anthologies are, by their very nature, pretty mixed. And found footage horror is not my kettle o' fish. So a found footage horror anthology did not have me ecstatic. I actually didn't mind V/H/S though, this was actually better than a loot of the found footage stuff I've seen, even if they do lean hard into the most annoying things about it, say for instance, video quality, which is (intentionally) abysmal. The framing device didn't work for me though, like, at all. I was very confused, and even if I hadn't been, I wasn't engaged by it at all. Which is a real shame, because I am particularly fond of the director of that part of the film, Adam Wingard. The entries over all weren't amazing, but, almost every segment of V/H/S had a real good "oh shit" sort of a moment in it that was real intense, and I'm into that. See more
Hagrid W Nov 30, 2018 V/H/S proves to be a lousy horror without many effective ingredients.
Kylo R Nov 14, 2018 A horror anthology with about 6-7 stories. None of them were scary. Some of them were a bit interesting, but I didn't like the endings for any of them. The acting was fine, especially for a low budget anthology like this. See more
Jun 29, 2018 For horror fans with a thing for found footage perspective, this is the genre anthology for you. The very first short story is the highlight, the following ones don't really manage to keep up the pace. See more
Leia S Apr 4, 2018 Thanks for the fucking nightmares
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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
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