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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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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 Robson C Enquanto um jovem tenta salvar a sua namorada, que foi levada por um motorista de um caminhão de sorvetes, que é perseguido também pela polícia pelas ruas do seu bairro, nós vemos outras histórias capturadas por câmeras. Mais um filme da franquia VHS, mas que menos tem a ver com as características da franquia. Em primeiro lugar, havia sempre uma história base que os personagens viam gravações em VHS, muitas vezes com histórias que não tinham nada a ver com a história base. Todas as histórias seguiam o padrão found footage. E como em toda antologia de terror, havia boas histórias e outras horríveis. Aqui, o que menos temos é uma câmera VHS. As filmagens ou são em câmeras digitais ou em celulares. Porém o conceito de found footage, em muitos casos, vai por água abaixo, pois não temos uma câmera só, mas imagens gravadas de várias câmeras em posições inexplicáveis ou de cãmeras de segurança. Além da história principal, do rapaz que persegue o caminhão de sorvetes, nós temos mais três histórias: um temos um mágico que usa uma capa mágica para fazer os seus números, porém, para continuar a usá-la, ele tem que fazer sacrifícios humanos. Esta história daria um bom filme de terror e poderia abandonar o conceito do found footage, pois não há motivos para essa história usar de gravações amadoras. O conto abusa de efeitos visuais péssimos e risíveis, mas há potencial para um filme bem interessante. O segundo conto é de um homem que constrói uma máquina que permite que ele entre em contato com seu duplo de uma outra dimensão e eles decidem trocar de lugar. Aqui a câmera tem razão de ser, pois eles querem documentar tudo. O conto tem uns plot twists bem interessantes. O terceiro conto é de um grupo de skatistas que resolvem ir para Tijuana filmar suas acrobacias no skate, quando de repente surge um grupo misterioso e os atacam. Aqui o problema é a quantidade de câmeras utilizadas: tem um dos skatistas que está com uma câmara na mão, enquanto outros dois têm câmeras nos capacetes. O que acaba deixando tudo confuso, pois você não consegue entender o que está acontecendo, tudo por uma edição muito mal feita. E, por fim, temos a história principal, que às vezes é interrompida por outras histórias em paralelo, como a de uma festa de uma gangue latina ou a de uma jovem fazendo striptease em um táxi. No fim, são apenas histórias jogadas, sem ligação nenhuma, que talvez sozinhas pudessem gerar um filme bem melhor. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 06/08/25 Full Review Audience Member Sayang oras. Ito na ata ang pinaka weak sa lahat ng vhs series Rated 1 out of 5 stars 05/14/25 Full Review Audience Member V/H/S: Viral’s wraparound tries to be hip and cool by featuring some supernatural viral thing that makes people’s nose bleed out? Also, it also has Kevin trying to try to go viral by recording the ice cream truck chase? This is so fucking confusing in all other ways which makes it even more of an annoyance to watch. All the other segments are just something. Dante The Great is an corny and stupid segment about some magician with some good aspects, Parallel Monsters would be an interesting and fine segment but the twist with the monster private parts is so gross and feels like they try to combine the freaky vibes from the first V/H/S and the cult monster stuff from the second V/H/S. Finally, Bonestorm follows slightly better douchebags and assholes from the first V/H/S that fuck up strangers’ daily life and go to Tijuana to get high? I don’t know it’s confusing as hell. Overall, this is a mess of a movie that poorly captures the found footage and “going viral” and is easily the worst in the franchise which caused the franchise to go in hibernation for 7 years before Shudder gave us V/H/S/94. You don’t need to see this one to get caught up. 2/10 Rated 1 out of 5 stars 11/07/24 Full Review Jay H This is maybe one of the least enjoyable movie I've ever seen. It is very boring, it's acting is awful, it's not redeemable at all. This movie sucks and I love the rest of the vhs franchise so it is very disappointing. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 10/21/24 Full Review Samuel M I would rather sit on a cactus than suffer through this garbage again. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 10/14/24 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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