V/H/S (2012)

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.

Directors:

Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, David Bruckner,

Writers:

Brad Miska (concept), Simon Barrett,

Stars:

Calvin Reeder, Lane Hughes, Adam Wingard

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Calvin Reeder	...	Gary (segment "Tape 56")
Lane Hughes	...	Zak (segment "Tape 56")
Kentucker Audley	...	Rox (segment "Tape 56")
Adam Wingard	...	Brad (segment "Tape 56")
Frank Stack	...	Old Man (segment "Tape 56")
Sarah Byrne	...	Abbey (segment "Tape 56")
Melissa Boatright	...	Tabitha (segment "Tape 56")
Simon Barrett	...	Steve (segment "Tape 56")
Andrew Droz Palermo	...	Fifth Thug (segment "Tape 56")
Hannah Fierman	...	Lily (segment "Amateur Night")
Mike Donlan	...	Shane (segment "Amateur Night")
Joe Sykes	...	Patrick (segment "Amateur Night")
Drew Sawyer	...	Clint (segment "Amateur Night")
Jas Sams	...	Lisa (segment "Amateur Night")
Joe Swanberg	...	Sam (segment "Second Honeymoon")

Storyline

A POV, found footage horror film from the perspective of America's top genre filmmakers. A group of misfits are hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house in the countryside and acquire a rare tape. Upon searching the house, the guys are confronted with a dead body, a hub of old televisions and an endless supply of cryptic footage, each video stranger than the last.

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Plot Keywords:

found footage | vhs | anthology | television | ghost in mirror | 

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Taglines:

This collection is killer.

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Genres:

Horror

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for bloody violence, strong sexuality, graphic nudity, pervasive language and some drug use

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

6 September 2012 (Russia)

Also Known As:

Las crónicas del miedo

Filming Locations:

11840 W. Telegraph Rd., Santa Paula, California, USA

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$36,402 (USA) (5 October 2012)

Gross:

$99,770 (USA) (9 November 2012)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Bloody Disgusting, Collective, The

Technical Specs

Runtime:

116 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Quotes

Lily: I like you.

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Connections

References Cannibal Holocaust (1980)

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Soundtracks

"How Do You Ruin Me"
Written and Performed by Annalisa Tornfelt
Sugar Hill Records
Annalisongs (BMI)
(segment "Amateur Night")

User Reviews

A nightmare world on videotape

Arranged around and within a tenuous wraparound home invasion scenario, the vignettes that comprise this shakycam shocker prove memorably effective, each lulling the viewer into a false sense of security via meanderingly mundane set-ups that abruptly shift to more unnerving, visceral territory. Old tropes such as alien interference, haunted houses, serial killers, and femmes fatales find themselves fed through the lens of the hand-held camera to rather impressive effect. The overall picture painted by these series of snuff flicks-within-a-flick is one of a world sporadically at the mercy of an otherworldly array of entities, with the glaring unremarkability of its setting serving to amplify, rather than undermine, the atmosphere of cosmic malevolence. All these elements amount to a punchy anthology which succeeds in overriding my antipathy toward the dreaded jittercam technique - no mean feat!