V/H/S/Beyond (Shudder) [DVD]: ÍøÆغÚÁÏ.co.uk: Phillip Andre Botello, Jay Cheel, Jordan Downey, Christian Long, Justin Long, Phillip Andre Botello: DVD & Blu-ray
The hit V/H/S/ franchise is back with six bloodcurdling tapes unleash horror in a sci-fi-inspired hellscape, pushing the boundaries of fear and suspense.
Starring Phillip Andre Botello (The Art of Self-Defense), Jolene Andersen (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Dane DiLiegro (Prey, American Horror Stories) and Bix Krieger (Ape X Mecha Ape: New World Order). V/H/S/Beyond is a found footage science fiction horror anthology film, and the seventh instalment in the V/H/S franchise.
The film features segments from directors Jay Cheel, Jordan Downey, Christian and Justin Long (Barbarian), Justin Martinez, Virat Pal, and Kate Siegel (The Haunting of Hill House, Hush) and featuring writing credits from horror legend, Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass).
Product details
Rated
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To Be Announced
Language
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English
Package Dimensions
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19.2 x 13.4 x 1.5 cm; 75 g
Director
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Jay Cheel, Jordan Downey, Christian Long, Justin Long
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A found footage styled film but not in the 'oh let's cheap out on the special effects cos we'll just make the camera go all static and flickery every time there's an important bit where you'd see the monster...'. You get to see the monsters and the limbs flying and the squelching evisceration in pretty good detail. The mini-stories are tied together by a 'we found this videos in a house clearance' investigator. It hauls out the cliches and pokes around in them with a tongue in cheek style but it's also quite gruesome at times...short tales include sci-fi zombies vs troops with guns / an indian film star who's not what she seems / parachute jumpers getting mixed up with other stuff in the sky and a proper mad dog lady good fun
If you read nothing else then know that this film should come with so many epilepsy warnings for each segment. Way beyond the usual VHS standards. The stories were entertaining enough, but we found that we were predicted the segment plots in advance of what happened by minutes not moments. CGI was so painfully obvious that it actually distracted from the segments that had it. But that was at least not nausea inducing like the 2 segments that had a framerate so low that you can count each frame out loud.
This is definitely one of the better franchise entries (saying that, I love them all tbh). Live and Let Dive and Stowaway are the standouts - two are average and one I found a bit weak (woof woof). However, all are great fun for a Friday night chillout!
I've watched every single V/H/S film and with any anthology, you're always going to get some bangers and some flips, V/H/S Beyond is no different. Despite this, and not being a huge fan of sci-fi horror, I thought this entry was great and honestly left me feeling a bit gross and a bit shocked - something rare these days for a horror obsessive like me. I love found footage films and I find the way V/H/S sets out the storyline around the found footage to be interesting. Really enjoyed, well worth a watch!
Well I'm a horror fan who liked the first two VHS. They had atmosphere, tension, creepiness with that found footage element.
Fast forward multiple VHS's, and it feels like with each one it's gone away from that, to this. This is more about the gore and effects, which i'm not going to criticize because they were good.
But the rest of it, the stories, the atmosphere, creepiness, nothing. Just really disappointing for me as found footage is my fav horrors .
I've watched all the V/H/S movies and this one is my favourite so far. The first two stories are excellent (IMHO) and the others pretty good. Lots of blood, which you may not like, and all tied together with the theme of UFOs.