V/H/S: Viral (2014)

Good movie but grossly overrated

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Waiting on V/H/S 4 to come out. Anybody else with me?

This installment really strayed from the original two that came before it. It isn't really an anthology of found footage, rather a collection of short POV films. It lacks the originality of the first film, and lacks the quality of shorts of the second film.The wraparound story just wasn't very intriguing enough to care about. I can kind of understand what they were going for but was so poorly executed such that the spliced up scenes made little sense."Parallel Monsters", the second short is probably the only one worth watching, it has a creepy-comedic vibe to it, but it feels more like a dark-comedy than a horror.TL;DRThe film is watchable, but I wouldn't go out of my way to see it. A real downgrade from the previous two films that came before it.

Although this franchise has been around for a bit, I hadn't seen any of the three movies until very recently. The whole "found footage" genre has never really appealed to me, and I knew these movies to be a long those lines. I saw this on Netflix the other day, and although I hadn't seen the first two movies, I decided to watch this third installment anyway. This movie consists of four short stories, with a fifth serving as a wrap around to the whole thing. As it is with most anthology movies, the stories are either hit or miss. My favorite one happens to be the first story, which is the story of a magician who becomes overcome by the dark side of his profession. Usually in low budget movies such as this, they make up for that fact by healing on loads of gore. While this.movie does indeed have some.of the wet red stuff, its used sparingly and rarely. While definitely not q classic or staple of the horror genre, this movie is alright. I probably wouldn't watch it again though, and I don't know if I'll watch the first two in the series having seen this.

Let me start out by saying I remember seeing the first VHS. I fell in love with it. I've always found the found footage genre interesting, and VHS was unlike anything I had ever seen before. The first film's ability to keep suspense by hiding things behind impurities in the video print, combined with creative and well- executed stories, made it instantly a horror masterpiece. Then I heard there was a sequel. I looked it up on Netflix, and I was satisfied with what I got. It wasn't as shocking or gripping as the first, but the idea's were still creative, the writing and acting was all around well done, and by sequel's standards, it held up well. Then I heard they were making a third film. I got hyped, and watched it the day it came on Netflix. What. The. F*ck. I'm still not entirely sure VHS Viral is part of the VHS series. The ideas were still kind of interesting, but were done terribly. Dumb executions, half-assed acting, and the encompassing storyline is attempting to be melodrama, but just ends stupidly. My advice is to avoid this movie, put on VHS and VHS/2, and live in denial of the third one.