Nancy666
If you have seen the first two, then the third will probably be a let-down. V/H/S Viral follows the same anthology premise as the first two but the stories don't flow as easily. "Vicious Circles" was the most confusing for me. "Dante the Great" was one of the best. "Bonestorm" visually great but not the best story. "Parallel Monsters" had potential but went a bit overboard wtf.It seems in the third they tried to push the creativity and it didn't work, not for me anyway. The cast is a solid as the previous installments but the stories aren't as easy to grasp and at the end you're kinda wondering what the hell went on. I thoroughly enjoyed V/H/S/ 1 and 2 and was excited for the third, but it lost something this time around. Unfortunately it wasn't good enough for me to want to buy the DVD for the surprise "Gorgeous Vortex" segment.
petronomicon-06376
the first two were a little hard to follow but had some linear story to tell. This mess was filmed with water damaged tape by a 1st gen VHS camera and quadruple spliced by some dude who just polished of a bucket of KFC without washing his hands. The transitions with staticky blue screen, glitchy tape, and mixed in cell phone screen was confusing, loud and annoying. Too bad because the stories were still a bit better than the first VHS installment.I still don't understand the role of the ice cream truck. Was it broadcasting it's viral video while being made, which corrupted the brains of its viewers? Why did people fall off bridges or get run over? Why was it circling and why the hell didn't the cops simply cut it off. Beyond the plot holes, you have to have a high tolerance for jerky "found footage" camera style as the last story dishes it out like a bad elementary school casserole. The skateboarders were simply annoying punks and their behavior was extremely uncharacteristic of kids in a fight with weirdos. Your tolerance for bad, jerky camera work is put to the test with this installment, and be prepared for the "reaction cam" view in the third story as you get a lot of skateboarder faces in your face. Blech! Only worth seeing if you've seen 1 & 2 and even then set expectations low.
adkulak11
Let me start out by saying I remember seeing the first VHS. I fell in love with it. I've always found the found footage genre interesting, and VHS was unlike anything I had ever seen before. The first film's ability to keep suspense by hiding things behind impurities in the video print, combined with creative and well- executed stories, made it instantly a horror masterpiece. Then I heard there was a sequel. I looked it up on Netflix, and I was satisfied with what I got. It wasn't as shocking or gripping as the first, but the idea's were still creative, the writing and acting was all around well done, and by sequel's standards, it held up well. Then I heard they were making a third film. I got hyped, and watched it the day it came on Netflix. What. The. F*ck. I'm still not entirely sure VHS Viral is part of the VHS series. The ideas were still kind of interesting, but were done terribly. Dumb executions, half-assed acting, and the encompassing storyline is attempting to be melodrama, but just ends stupidly. My advice is to avoid this movie, put on VHS and VHS/2, and live in denial of the third one.
Logan Douglas
"V/H/S: Viral" was kind of crap, considering the 2 other movies in the trilogy.While the first two movies in the "V/H/S" series weren't amazing, they were at least entertaining, and were pretty good at the art of suspense (at least most of them were). They also kept to the title, and the entirety of both "V/H/S" and "V/H/S/2" looked like they were found on VHS tapes.Not "Viral" though.I guess they just decided to drop that idea, which was the first problem. The second and most apparent problem is that "Viral" is not scary. The three segments are imaginative, and maybe if they were lengthened, they could be a stand-alone movie. But they weren't scary. Not in the slightest. Some were bloody, but blood does not make a scene scary. And not to mention that they effects were lackluster. In the segment "Bonestorm", there is a part where the character "Filmer" gets his arm ripped off. But the effect looked so fake, that it was enough it make me laugh out loud. This was the effect of uninspired editing, which, now that I think about it, sums up this whole movie. Uninspired. If you are a fan of the "V/H/S" series, I say disregard this movie, and take V/H/S/2 as the last movie in the series. Because this will only leave you unsatisfied.
AD
