Leofwine_draca V/H/S/ 2 is a modern-day horror anthology featuring eclectic talent from the directors of THE RAID and YOU'RE NEXT amongst others. As with many modern horror anthologies, the emphasis is on outright blood and gore over scares, although there are attempts here to frighten as well as repulse the viewer. There are four tales in all, as well as a mildly diverting wraparound story involving a creepy old house and a VHS collection. Most of the material is shot POV style, which I enjoyed as a fan of the 'found footage' genre.The first tale is a simple riff on THE EYE, as a guy gets a new-fangled optic implant that restores his sight but has the unwanted side effect of allowing him to see spirits at the same time. I love the introduction of the deaf girl with her own twist and this is by far the scariest of the film, with some really jumpy moments. It's all predictable, but that's okay.The second tale is about a cyclist with a Go Pro camera mounted on his helmet. His trip through the woods is interrupted by a zombie attack, and what we get here is unending gore and bloodshed, some of the most gruesome you'll see. It's all pretty distasteful actually, and more than a little pointless.The third story is the Indonesian one, contributed by THE RAID director Gareth Evans; as a huge fan of his films, it was the one I was most looking forward to. Evans doesn't disappoint; this is as intense as his action films, and the madcap plot line involves a doomsday cult and the birth of the Antichrist. It's exceptionally gory, delightfully obscure, and without a doubt the highlight of the whole thing.The fourth and final story is weak by comparison. It tells of an attack by extraterrestrials on a group of redneck characters, who are all really dumb, but there's way too much of the shaky cam here and little real meat to the storyline. The dog is the most interesting character and you can guess what happens to that. V/H/S/ 2 isn't bad at all for fans of gory horror, but aside from the Indonesian segment it's all rather familiar.

akaash-k So I decided to write a review..First of all, how the hell is this rated higher than the proceeder?I had seen the first one last week with a friend, and as I was having another movie night yesterday with the same friend, I decided that it'd be good to start of with the sequel, since the first one had us pretty entertained throughout.Boy was I wrong.This is why most sequels are never better than the first, because they are either just odd, don't live up to the first one, or are just outright crap.This movie is not even as good as the first, and even the worst short of the first installment is way better than any in this one..TAPE 1 - "Phase 1 Clinical Trials" This is the first short, which just doesn't make sense and is only depending on loud sounds and sudden appearances to make you jump. It doesn't even explain why all that happens.TAPE 2 - "A Ride in the park" This was the second short, and was just outright weird. Really? Zombies? It looked like a spoof or something that didn't take itself seriously, which is clearly the wrong impressionTAPE 3 - "Safe Haven" probably the best out of all the shorts, only because it started off creepy. Well Asians and little kids are normally a creepy mix, but what it climaxed into was just plain stupid. Really? A fake looking goat monster :/ rightttt. All that build up for that. PftTAPE 4 - "Slumber Party Alien Abduction" this one was alright, since it was a quick paced short, but that doesn't make it excellent, just fast paced, meaning you have to pay attention. Not as bad as the first two, but still mehhhWrap Around Tape/Frame Narrative - "Tape 49" - the shot of the room while the person puts a VHS in was probably the creepiest part from th film, because you half expect someone or something to jump out due to the angle, but yeah, nothing as such... Well until the very end, but still not even scary, just weird..If Im being really critical, forgive me, but the expectation I had going in to this was even better than the first, especially with the ratings here, but man is that a disappointment. Guess I should stick to my own rule of only seeing reviews/ratings AFTER I see the movie. My friend agreed that this was such a time wasting movie, and was only further dumbfounded as I mentioned this was rated higher than the first. HaThe first at least had good (stretched out shorts) and characters that we could actually sort of care about.Blood and gore (which is more in this one) doesn't make a movie scary(ier). It just makes it gross

BA_Harrison V/H/S/2 is one of those rare sequels that is miles better than the original movie, which squandered its intriguing found-footage anthology format on several rather weak and poorly executed stories. This time around, the result is far more successful as a whole, with three out of the four main stories being absolute stonkers.After introducing matters with the obligatory wraparound tale—an investigator and his assistant searching for a missing college student break into a house where they find a stack of mysterious video cassettes—the film begins proper with the slotting of tape number one into the video player...Phase I Clinical Trials, directed by Adam Wingard (You're Next), sees an accident victim having one of his eyes surgically replaced with an experimental eye-camera, after which he begins to see horrific visions of dead people. A young woman warns him that he mustn't try to interact with these frightening apparitions (she even tries to distract him by having sex with him!), but she is too late: the ghosts have already been acknowledged and now have the power to kill. This tale benefits from solid performances and decent special effects, and most importantly, skillful direction from Wingard (a film-maker I had virtually written off after You're Next and The ABCs of Death). Wingard really delivers the scares here, making this one to watch with the light on.Things get even better with the next story, A Ride In The Park, co-directed by Gregg Hale and Eduardo Sánchez, who take a well worn sub-genre and give it a refreshing new lease of life (or is that 'death'?). Jay Saunders plays a cyclist who is attacked and killed by the the living dead while out on his bike; now a zombie himself, the man's undead antics are recorded by his GoPro camera, which is attached to his cycle helmet. Excitement, gore and a bittersweet payoff make this my favourite of all the stories.Up next is Safe Haven, co-directed by Gareth Evans, the man who gave us the awesome action flicks The Raid and The Raid 2, and Timo Tjahjanto. This one starts of pretty slow, with a film crew making a documentary about a strange religious cult, but it gets seriously bonkers once the cult's members begin to commit suicide in order to bring about the birth of a giant, horned, winged demon. Evans' trademark kinetic direction and loads of extreme gore go to make Safe Haven a whole lot of splattery fun once it kicks into gear, with such grisly sights as someone having their face blown off by a shotgun, a full body explosion, and the massive demon tearing its way out of a woman's stomach.This leads us to the last and rather disappointing tale, Slumber Party Alien Abduction, by director Jason Eisener (Hobo With A Shotgun), which is even worse than the title suggests. The plot sees group of teenagers having a sleepover which is crashed by malevolent extraterrestrials who try to abduct them. This not-very-scary sci-fi story doesn't sit very well with the previous episodes, and matters are made much worse with Eisener's dreadful direction and lousy editing which makes following the action virtually impossible. Once the aliens attack, the camera shakes all over the place and bright lights are shone directly into the lens while the characters scream a lot. It all proves extremely irritating.Thankfully V/H/S/2 has a few more effective scares up its sleeve before the end credits roll, the wraparound tale closing with the investigator being hunted by his assistant, who has somehow been transformed into a zombie by the videocassettes.One bad tale out of four (five if you include the intro and outro) isn't at all bad, though; I only hope that V/H/S: Viral, the third in the series, continues the trend (although a quick look at current reviews casts serious doubt over that!).

TdSmth5 An investigator and his partner are hired to find a college kid. They break into house at night and find a room with bunch of TV, VCRs and lots of tapes. The girl stays to look at the tapes. He looks around the house. But there's someone else there.The first tape the girl watches is about a guy who lost his eye in an accident. He gets an implant and can see again through his bionic eye. When he gets home he starts seeing ghosts appear and vanish. Next morning a girl who saw him at the clinic knocks on his door. She tells him that she has an ear implant and now she hears ghosts. And she says she knows how to make them go away. But the ghosts have a plan of their own. That forces the guy to make a tough decision.Tape 2 is of a guy biking somewhere in the woods. A woman screaming for help crosses his path. She starts vomiting, turns into a zombie and attacks him. He still has a camera on his helmet as he turns into a zombie and attacks a couple. There are bunch of zombies there and they all crash a girl's birthday party. But some of the guys there start defending themselves. When he gets a call from his girlfriend, whatever he has left of his humanity surfaces.In tape 3 some journalists interview some guy who talks about knowing the path to immortality and that he's almost there. The crew of 4 then visit his compound. There are children there and a girl hints at being abused. When the actual interview with the cult leader begins, the 4 end up separating but for good reasons. At some point the guy says that it has begun and attacks the camera guy. Alarms start sounding. All the kids start drinking something. In another room, men shoot themselves in the head. The female reporter is taken by the cultists. When her guy finds he she gives birth. Things get crazier from there.The final story involves some kids who get to spend some time by themselves at what looks like a vacation home by the lake when the parents leave. There is a group of teens and a group of pre-teens. They pull pranks on each other and have a good time. Right away at night the house starts shaking, there are lights, sounds. This happens a couple of times until finally aliens show up.At the end we find out what happens with the couple of investigators and the college guy they were looking for.V/H/S/2 is an improvement on part 1. It has better image and better stories and is much gorier. It's good to see though that The ABCs of Death had enough of an impact to make a name for some of directors there. The first story is nothing special unfortunately, it is watchable mainly thanks to the lovely Hannah Hughes. Things improve greatly with the second story, the success of which borrows from Unearthed from The ABCs of Death by showing us what happens from the perspective of the villain. Things get even better in the third story by Timo Tjahjanto. His story isn't just happy to give us the creepy Jim Jones-type cult leader but goes way beyond. It's wild and crazy, just as his short on ABCs was. This guy is currently the future of horror. Unfortunately, after this high point things go significantly downhill with the aliens segment. It doesn't set up the story right, we can't distinguish any important character, what could have been a surprise is given away way too early, and it doesn't offer anything interesting. Odd and unfortunate, since Eisener's short on ABCs was pretty good. If they manage to make a sequel excluding weak shorts, they might have something here.