V/H/S: Viral

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V/H/S: Viral

R,

2014,

1h 22m,

Horror/

Mystery & Thriller/

Action

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32%

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13%

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A police chase through the streets of Los Angeles inspires dozens of fame-obsessed teens to try to capture the salacious footage, but they are unaware that they will face their own deaths as stars of the next video sensation.

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Critics Consensus

V/H/S/: Viral is hardly a sensation as it cycles through the franchise's least frightening vignettes yet.

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Candice Frederick

Reel Talk Online

Sep 1, 2017

F+

I was mostly waiting for it to end.

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Doug Knoop

Seattle Times

Nov 28, 2014

1/4

I couldn't wait to hit eject on this whole jittery mess.

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Jordan Hoffman

Guardian

Nov 21, 2014

1/5

I recognize that it's part of the great horror tradition to beat a marketable name into the ground, but that doesn't make up for the disappointment.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Jul 18, 2022

1/4

An unwatchable mess.

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

Sep 12, 2019

1/5

While this is the only portion of this franchise entry to remotely deal with this motif, it's also the least effective, lacking in any real kind of cohesive design.

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Molly Henery

The Blogging Banshee

Nov 3, 2018

3.5/10

I think aside from the shorts being more nonsensical and not even remotely scary, the thing that upset me the most was the overarching storyline of "Vicious Circles."

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Anakin S

Mar 27, 2019

Even worse than V/H/S 2. The only memorable story was about the magician.

Hagrid R

Mar 14, 2019

Following on from my stle of review from previous entry, V/H/S/2, I'll just bne giving my quick thoughts segment by segment, rather than the whole thing (star rating is still for Viral overall though). Vicious Circles: Of the various framing devices found across the V/H/S franchise, "Vicious Circles" is the best/makes the most sense, but it wasn't great or anything. Dante the Great: The most fun of the entries across the whole series. It does stand out in a bad way a little bit, firstly because it's a combination of fake "found footage" and fake "documentary" which... Like it's weird to have sat through all these shorts and then suddenly have a guy giving an interview to a camera crew, and secondly because I think calling it horror is a stretch. More of a... Fantasy-action-comedy with some heavy gore right at the end. Parallel Monsters: Has the same problems as the previous film's "Safe Haven" entry, but fewer pros to counterbalance it. Could probably be explored in a full length movie to better effect, but even that I'm unsure about. Bonestorm: The silliest and worst acted of the entire franchise, which truly is saying something. Would probably make more sense as something outside of a V/H/S film, say... playing silently on a loop on a TV in a skateboard shop, for instance. Gorgeous Vortex: The "hidden" V/H/S: Viral entry is an odd one. The only thing it has going for it is also the dumbest thing about it. It's a 15 minute movie that is entirely aesthetic in value, the first and only entry with good video quality. But this is supposed to be a collection of crappily filmed, glitchy footage, copied over to VHS tapes - so in what universe does it make sense?

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Hagrid R

Dec 22, 2018

V/H/S Viral, makes the third enstallment very boring that is far from effective.

Oct 9, 2018

Wow... if you loved the first two films... skip this one. This was probably the worst film ive seen all of October. It was trying to send a message about how everyone now a days is trying to "go viral" become a YouTube star... but oh man somewhere along the way the message was lost and the film became infuriating.

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Luke S

Jan 7, 2018

This movie is like a virus video.

Poe S

Nov 22, 2017

Jeez, man, this isn't perfect but it deserves better than 38% critical and 14% audience...

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Justin Benson

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Gregg Bishop

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Todd Lincoln

Director

Aaron Moorhead

Director

Marcel Sarmiento

Director

Nacho Vigalondo

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Synopsis

A police chase through the streets of Los Angeles inspires dozens of fame-obsessed teens to try to capture the salacious footage, but they are unaware that they will face their own deaths as stars of the next video sensation.

Director: Justin Benson, Gregg Bishop, Todd Lincoln, Aaron Moorhead, Marcel Sarmiento, Nacho Vigalondo
Producer: Justin Benson, Gary Binkow, Gregg Bishop, Theo Brooks, Dan Caudill, Stephen Caudill, Adam Hendricks
Screenwriter: Justin Benson, Nacho Vigalondo, Gregg Bishop, Marcel Sarmiento, Todd Lincoln, T.J. Cimfel, David White
Distributor: Magnolia Pictures
Production Co: The Collective, Bloody Disgusting, 8383 Productions
Rating: R (Language|Gore|Disturbing Strong Violence|Sexual Content|Some Drug Use)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 21, 2014, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 17, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $2.6K
Runtime: 1h 22m

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