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V/H/S: Viral

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A police chase through the streets of Los Angeles inspires dozens of fame-obsessed teens to try to capture the salacious footage, but they are unaware that they will face their own deaths as stars of the next video sensation.
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V/H/S/: Viral is hardly a sensation as it cycles through the franchise's least frightening vignettes yet.

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Candice Frederick Reel Talk Online I was mostly waiting for it to end. Rated: F+ Sep 1, 2017 Full Review Doug Knoop Seattle Times I couldn't wait to hit eject on this whole jittery mess. Rated: 1/4 Nov 28, 2014 Full Review Jordan Hoffman Guardian I recognize that it's part of the great horror tradition to beat a marketable name into the ground, but that doesn't make up for the disappointment. Rated: 1/5 Nov 21, 2014 Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review An unwatchable mess. Rated: 1/4 Jul 18, 2022 Full Review Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com While this is the only portion of this franchise entry to remotely deal with this motif, it's also the least effective, lacking in any real kind of cohesive design. Rated: 1/5 Sep 12, 2019 Full Review Molly Henery The Blogging Banshee I think aside from the shorts being more nonsensical and not even remotely scary, the thing that upset me the most was the overarching storyline of "Vicious Circles." Rated: 3.5/10 Nov 3, 2018 Full Review Read all reviews

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Dylan C. Worst of the franchise. Hands down. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 11/03/25 Full Review Horror fan 4 A very entertaining movie but wasn't that scary. The effects were good. Tim Treakle Rated 4 out of 5 stars 11/03/25 Full Review Erik B Third chapter in the anthology series...and this one is a little less cohesive than the previous two entries. The stories contained herein are just OK at best, and the "story" that weaves them all together is pretty incomprehensible. Fun...but very forgettable. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/22/25 Full Review Ian H Bit too confused to be really scary or cohesive Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 10/09/25 Full Review Caleb L A film with segments that all have something good in them, but also with a wrap around so incoherent, confusing, and just all around awful. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 10/08/25 Full Review Jeremy B. This one is not good. Made worse by the fact that there was no transition story between “episodes”. Effects and production were about the only two good points. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 06/22/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A police chase through the streets of Los Angeles inspires dozens of fame-obsessed teens to try to capture the salacious footage, but they are unaware that they will face their own deaths as stars of the next video sensation.
Director
Justin Benson, Gregg Bishop, Todd Lincoln, Aaron Moorhead, Marcel Sarmiento, Nacho Vigalondo
Producer
Justin Benson, Gary Binkow, Gregg Bishop, Theo Brooks, Dan Caudill, Stephen Caudill, Adam Hendricks
Screenwriter
Justin Benson, Nacho Vigalondo, Gregg Bishop, Marcel Sarmiento, Todd Lincoln, T.J. Cimfel, David White
Distributor
Magnolia Pictures
Production Co
The Collective, Bloody Disgusting, 8383 Productions
Rating
R (Language|Gore|Disturbing Strong Violence|Sexual Content|Some Drug Use)
Genre
Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 21, 2014, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 17, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$2.6K
Runtime
1h 22m
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