V/H/S
Directors: Adam Wingard, Ti West, Joe Swanberg, Glenn McQuaid, Radio Silence, David Bruckner
Stars:
Calvin Reeder, Lane Hughes, Joe Swanberg, Sophia Takal, Kate Lyn Sheil,
Joe Sykes, Hannah Fierman, Mike Donlan, Drew Sawyer, Drew Moerlein,
Jason Yachanin, Helen Rogers, Jas Samms
Release info: Sold at Sundance to Magnolia Pictures; a Fall 2012 release is expected
Why you should be excited:
Sorry, Dramamine-abusers,
but if you’re sick and tired of horror’s recent obsession with
found-footage movies, you’re shit out of luck. Now that The Devil Inside has continued the box office domination sent into motion by the Paranormal Activity
franchise, the first-person POV style isn’t going anywhere; thankfully,
though, a crew of the genre’s most exciting independent filmmakers have
banded together to create the impossible: a legitimately great and
genuinely terrifying found-footage movie.
Or so says every single person who caught the Sundance premiere of V/H/S,
a horror anthology dreamt up by Bloody Disgusting’s webmaster Brad
Miska, and directed by, amongst others, Adam Wingard (the buzz-earner
behind 2012’s most anticipated horror flick, You’re Next) and The House Of The Devil shot-caller Ti West.
V/H/S progresses as a group of Jackass-like
criminals dig up old cassette tapes for a mysterious employer, and on
said tapes they see a road trip gone to hell, horny guys (one of whom
wears glasses with a hidden camera) propositioning the wrong girls, an
extremely haunted house, two long-distance lovers unknowingly Skyping
with a ghost, and a serial killer's murder presented in first-person. If
done properly, the found-footage approach can yield frightening results
(see: [REC]), and, for old-school horror junkies, there’s nothing better than a strong anthology film (see: Creepshow); excitingly, the early word-of-mouth on V/H/S/ is that it combines the best of both templates.
http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/01/25-independent-movies-you-should-be-excited-about
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