
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 54% (Critics) / 43% (Audience)
Directed By: David Bruckner, Glenn McQuaid, Radio Silence, Joe Swanberg, Ti West, Adam Wingard
Written By: Brad Miska, Simon Barrett, David Bruckner & Nicholas Tecosky, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Radio Silence
Starring: Calvin Reeder, Lane Hughes, Adam Wingard and Kentucker Audley
Studio: Magnolia Pictures
Synopsis: When a group of misfits is hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire a rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they bargained for. (Source)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m3ExdKJe_U
The Good:
Out of the six short vignettes in this anthology the two that really clicked for me were “Amateur Night” and “10/31/98”. In “Amateur Night” a group of friends pick up two women at a bar and bring them back to their motel room with plans to make a sex tape but one of the women turns out to be a bit odd to say the least. In the role of the bizarre Lily, Hannah Fierman really pulls off being otherworldly and creepy.
“10/31/98” pulled together a likeable group of friends out for a little fun on Halloween who stumble into the wrong haunted house and this short had enough going on that I really would have liked to have seen more backstory and had the entire thing fleshed out to a full movie.

The Bad:
Two out of six is not a good average and V/H/S dropped the ball more often than not with a few of these shorts not being worth even including in the movie especially the Ti West helmed “Second Honeymoon” that managed to be dull, not scary and offensive in such a short time span.

The Ugly
The things Lily did to the guys in “Amateur Night” brought tears too my eyes and had me nervously crossing my legs. Not cool, V/H/S, not cool at all.

Final Verdict: A wildly uneven horror anthology that misses the mark more than hits it. The segments that were good I really liked but the ones that were bad were extremely bad and served to make this movie feel like it was nine hours long.
Grade: D+

