V/H/S - 2012

 It is interesting to look back at something like this and The ABCs of Death and other stitched together shorts because say what you will about their box office success, these gave birth to almost every interesting horror figure of the last 10 years.  Its more of a question of which one of these sets they're on than if they are on one.

I was over the found footage thing when this came out, this was quite a bit after Cloverfield et all had re-explored the genre like 6 years earlier, and I did see this when it was new but I never really cared to keep up with the series as it kept going and certainly did not know that it evolved into a straight to streaming or DVD thing with like half a dozen sequels.

VHS shows as 6 segments on Wikipedia, and I wonder exactly which was which because there's also a lot of interstitial things that I wonder what they consider.  Here is the synopsis:

Wrap around "Tape 56" a bunch of guys are filming their crimes and are sent to get a tape out of a creepy house with a seemingly dead guy, as we cut back to them they're picked off one by one.

"Amateur Night" some guys go partying and pick up a couple girls, one of them acting purposely creepy.  She seems almost too into it as they get back to their hotel room.

"Second Honeymoon" I couldn't really tell ya, something about guys on a trip and at night someone sorta begins fucking with them and I don't really understand the ending.

"Tuesday the 17th" some people on a hiking trip encounter a bizarre supernatural invisible killer(?)

"The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily When She Was Younger" Another sorta shrug one of a few video calls where it seems a girl is seeing dead people in her house.  Her boyfriend may have set it up.

"10/31/98" some people go into a house and discover some sort of Satan worshiping thing or something going on upstairs, and when they stop it it seems they unleash the beast.

The best for me is probably either the wrap around segment or 10/31/98, but I'm really reaching there to try to figure out what I liked.  An odd amount of these are supernatural in nature, which is sorta unnecessary if you ask me, isn't the format and the concept a lot more suited for regular horror?

I haven't decided if I'm going to watch ALL of the VHS horror movies or not, but this is a fairly okay beginning.  I think I wanted it to be a little better tbh.  I'll give it a solid 2.