We have reached a critical point, because there are too many horror films with "incidental material" themes, so that we have to pack more than one of them. Come together to avoid excess market. The result is "V/H/S", which has six stories and is produced by nine directors, a hodgepodge movie. But one advantage of the hodgepodge movie is that if one of the stories is not very good, you just have to wait a few minutes and the other will begin.
The fear of "vhs" is that a group of brain-disabled non-mainstream workers will sneak into a house and steal a video tape for unknown reasons (we also don't know the truth...). They photographed the process, so we can see what happened to them. At the same time, we can see the video they saw when they found the video tape, and every video tape has its own horror story to tell.
Fans of genre films will find that the plot is a bit familiar and lacks imagination. For example, one of the stories is a transformation of the classic plot of "the energetic teenagers by the lake" (Editor: The cottage in the woods is also a ridicule of this plot); the other is about breaking into a haunted house. In most stories, the women's experience is not good, and these women will retaliate to varying degrees. At the same time, there is no shortage of Bobo and blood, ass, and a lot of pornography.
You will find that the previous works of these directors will not surprise you, including "Signal", "Dead Road", "Evil House", and "Tomb Raider's Confession". These new generations of independent horror films have surpassed the psychological fear style of "Scream and Scream", and have returned to the blood and "don't enter the basement" genre. Vhs showed that they have adapted well to the limitations of the "Occasionally Obtained Material" type and found a wonderful way to avoid the inevitable "Why is this fool still holding a camera?" question in these sub-genre films. One part is composed entirely of two people's online video chat. The other is that a character wears a candid video goggles (translator's note google glasses and the like) that can be used to film his buddies having sex, while at the same time preventing the girls from knowing that they are filming. In the story by the lake, the camera plays an important role in the development of the plot.
The best stories are the first and last. David Bruckner's work, about date-rapists The special glasses have a delicious and satisfying pleasure. The story of the four-person haunted house breaking into, has a classic excitement that makes you cling to the chair and lean on your hand. The general story is that the aforementioned video chat story (directed by Joe Swanberg, written by him and Simon Barrett) is better than the story about the execution; (execution) is about a young couple The story of the road trip has some suspense but lacks logic; Glenn McQuai's chapter of the youth by the lake has played some tricks very well. As for the outer story of the main line (directed by Adam Wingard), the non-mainstream people are watching the video tape, which is basic but the weakest indeed.
Can one of the stories be extended into an independent movie? No, no one did it at the same time! Applause everyone encourages this restraint. Although these individual stories have mixed good and bad, they are uniformly excellent on a technical level. The "Ghost: Ghost Record" series reminds us how good real effects can be-using real things instead of CGI-and vhs inherited it. And it is better to do it with a lot of dexterous methods (some computer special effects are also used). The first horror collection of occasional material in the history of the movie shows that there are new ways to play old tricks as well.
Translation of Chen Jiushu
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