Patrick Lawrie
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As the streets of Los Angeles overflow with camera-wielding gawkers seeking to capture images of a bizarre police pursuit, the same people who sought to exploit the suffering of others for amusement on the Internet become the stars of a gruesome viral video from which no one gets out alive.
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| Release Date | 2014-11-21 |
|---|---|
| Runtime | 1h 21m |
| Directors | Marcel Sarmiento, Aaron Moorhead, Justin Benson, Nacho Vigalondo, Gregg Bishop, Todd Lincoln, Isidro Carbajal, Dan Caudill, Vince Cupone, Jessica Blaize Hendricks, Julian Higgins, David Lawson Jr., Yarden Levo, Sofía Merlín, Nils Onsager, Lizzie Sam, Arturo Artal, Miguel Junquera, Rafael Sanz, William Tanner Sampson |
| Producers | Brad Miska, Gary Binkow, Morgan Patterson, Christopher White, Roxanne Benjamin, Marcel Sarmiento, Andrew Reyes, Tom Owen, Zak Zeman, Sten Saluveer, Christopher White, Justin Benson, Gregg Bishop, Theo Brooks, Dan Caudill, Stephen Caudill, Vince Cupone, Matt Daneri, Beck Engle, Adam Hendricks, Nahikari Ipiña, John H. Lang, David Lawson Jr., Aaron Moorhead, Nils Onsager, Sten Saluveer, Jason Sanford |
| Writers | Aaron Moorhead, Marcel Sarmiento, T.J. Cimfel, Nacho Vigalondo, Justin Benson, Gregg Bishop, David White, Todd Lincoln, Brad Miska |
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?
Final rating:★★ - Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product.
— Gimly