SPOOKTOBER chapter 19:
A Brand New Franchise Installment
You know, if not for that slight misstep called "V/H/S: Viral" (part 3), this would be my favorite horror franchise ever. The brand of found-footage anthology belongs to this franchise, for it continues, despite its continuous but slight decrease in budget, to find endless creativity to entertain and engage, creep and weird you out in the best ways the genre can offer.
One of the production companies is "Bloody Disgusting", an all-time favorite source of horror news and reviews for me, which is pretty awesome. As always, we have a pretty satisfying team of directors, this time 5: Scott Derrickson ("Sinister", "The Black Phone"), David Bruckner ("Ritual", "The Night House"), Mike P. Nelson ("The Domestics", "Wrong Turn" reboot), Gigi Saul Guerro ("Into the Dark" & "The Purge" TV-Series) & Natasha Kermani (Shudder's "Lucky"). The Timeline is 1985, and welcome to television, the very messed up kind! Switch the channels of a delicious horror television service called V/H/S.
Our 6th installment begins with Nelson's "No Wake", getting nice, odd and creepy already, ending abruptly and disappointing you heavily... but little did we know, it picks up later, and the bonus is great. Guerro's "God of Death" sees Mexican morning news live, during an earthquake hit, perhaps of the supernatural kind... Not bad, but if I had to rank them, this one would probably sit at the tail end. By far the most known of the bunch, Scott Derrickson, serves a tale of police being frustrated by receiving tapes of murder that happen only days later, and it's a very entertaining concept. Another heavyweight, David Bruckner, conjures up another intriguing tale, a documentary about scientists experimenting on a captured shape-shifting alien, and it fits right in the eerie mood of "V/H/S"/. Natasha Kermani's "TKNGOD" was not the best, but perhaps the weirdest, and that's enough. However, the form of this short felt a little out of place in the genre of found-footage.
To me, 2nd part is the best by a little margin, but 1st, 4th, 5th & this, the 6th, are interchangeable, for each and every one is effective and fun, they might even appear the same in a way, but the creativity comes anew every time, and genre feels change along with directors, writers and actors. I dig this franchise a lot, and am happy to know and say that the 7th is coming next year! My rating: 7/10.
You know, if not for that slight misstep called "V/H/S: Viral" (part 3), this would be my favorite horror franchise ever. The brand of found-footage anthology belongs to this franchise, for it continues, despite its continuous but slight decrease in budget, to find endless creativity to entertain and engage, creep and weird you out in the best ways the genre can offer.
One of the production companies is "Bloody Disgusting", an all-time favorite source of horror news and reviews for me, which is pretty awesome. As always, we have a pretty satisfying team of directors, this time 5: Scott Derrickson ("Sinister", "The Black Phone"), David Bruckner ("Ritual", "The Night House"), Mike P. Nelson ("The Domestics", "Wrong Turn" reboot), Gigi Saul Guerro ("Into the Dark" & "The Purge" TV-Series) & Natasha Kermani (Shudder's "Lucky"). The Timeline is 1985, and welcome to television, the very messed up kind! Switch the channels of a delicious horror television service called V/H/S.
Our 6th installment begins with Nelson's "No Wake", getting nice, odd and creepy already, ending abruptly and disappointing you heavily... but little did we know, it picks up later, and the bonus is great. Guerro's "God of Death" sees Mexican morning news live, during an earthquake hit, perhaps of the supernatural kind... Not bad, but if I had to rank them, this one would probably sit at the tail end. By far the most known of the bunch, Scott Derrickson, serves a tale of police being frustrated by receiving tapes of murder that happen only days later, and it's a very entertaining concept. Another heavyweight, David Bruckner, conjures up another intriguing tale, a documentary about scientists experimenting on a captured shape-shifting alien, and it fits right in the eerie mood of "V/H/S"/. Natasha Kermani's "TKNGOD" was not the best, but perhaps the weirdest, and that's enough. However, the form of this short felt a little out of place in the genre of found-footage.
To me, 2nd part is the best by a little margin, but 1st, 4th, 5th & this, the 6th, are interchangeable, for each and every one is effective and fun, they might even appear the same in a way, but the creativity comes anew every time, and genre feels change along with directors, writers and actors. I dig this franchise a lot, and am happy to know and say that the 7th is coming next year! My rating: 7/10.