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LOS ANGELES, CA – OCTOBER 03: (L-R) Producer Gary Binkow, actress Helen Rogers, producer Brad Miska, producer/writer/director Joe Swanberg and actress Roxanne Benjamin attend the Premiere Of ‘V/H/S’ at Mann Chinese 6 on October 3, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA – OCTOBER 03: (L-R) Producer Gary Binkow, actress Helen Rogers, producer Brad Miska, producer/writer/director Joe Swanberg and actress Roxanne Benjamin attend the Premiere Of ‘V/H/S’ at Mann Chinese 6 on October 3, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

V/H/S

Release Year: 2012

Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, David Bruckner, Tyler Gillett, Justin Martinez, Glenn McQuaid, Radio Silence, Joe Swanberg, Chad Villella, Ti West, Adam Wingard

Starring Calvin Reeder, Lane Hughes, Adam Wingard

A group of petty criminals are given a job from an anonymous source to break into a house and steal a VHS tape. What seems like an easy job turns into a set of events that cannot be explained. The house has a large pile of VHS tapes and the movie is centered around six short stories documented on some of the tapes. Six directors are responsible for the six stories in the film, so each story has its own horrifying personal touch.

All the footage is grainy, giving you that extra sense of impending doom. My favorite is a story called “10/31/98”. Four friends go to the wrong address for a Halloween party and end up at an empty house. The group decides to have some fun and explore the house.  Everything is fine until the boys go up to the attic and discover what appears to be an exorcism.

What transpires as the boys attempt to leave the house is truly terrifying.  The other five stories keep you guessing all the way until their shocking endings. Two otherV/H/S films were made after the original, carving a nice niche in the reality horror genre. If you don’t find this film scary, you will find it shocking, if not both.