What's it about?The third instalment in the anthology series in which different writer/director teams conjure up strange tales of horror. This time there's a killer magician, a gateway to a parallel dimension, and skater kids taking on 'Blind Dead' style zombies in Mexico.
Who would I recognise in it?Erm...
Great/Good/Alright/Shite?V/H/S was decent - but had significant flaws, the biggest being an overlong run time, and some truly unlikable male characters with whom you didn't want to spend any time with whatsoever. The latter aspect was, indeed, rather insulting to the entire male gender, tarring all blokes with the same brush while simultaneously reducing the female characters to sketched-in object/avenger binary codes.
V/H/S/2 was a considerable step up in quality, with a talented range of writer/directors behind the camera, a much more suitable running time, and a range of tales (
with interesting characters) that displayed a wealth of invention and creativity - not to mention fun!
The third film? I try not to come down too hard on flicks, particularly in the last few years, and my tolerance for garbage is fairly high (
there's usually something to redeem even your shoddiest bit of grindhouse grot) ... but
V/H/S: Viral is, and there's no softly-softly way of saying this - dreadful...
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