I love this movie so much

You won't be disappointed!

Good concept, poorly executed.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

First of all, I'm a big fan of these kind of "found footage" movies. I think the first V/H/S was better at not having the amount of cliches that this one has. The first tape had some terrible actors - man, I think I may act better than them. The second tape was a interesting take on the zombie stuff that had its peak at 2012~2013. Third tape, for me, was the best one, really interesting and intriguing story. The last one was the standard ET stuff.I liked the out of tapes story as well - better than the V/H/S 1 one. 6.5/10

I had read a number of favorable reviews about this movie, and being a fan of the "found footage" genre, I decided to watch the first V/H/S movie to get a feel for what was being made. After watching both movies, I cannot understand where all the favorable reviews of the second movie are coming from.V/H/S 2 is just another weak copycat sequel, with less plot and too much reliance on blood and gore. While I am a huge fan of horror movies and don't mind blood and gore, the first movie was more suspenseful, leaving the audience wondering what mysterious creatures are lurking in the shadows while the hand held camera pans around the room. Early into the second movie, the audience can safely assume that some ghostly creature is going to attack the panicked subject and then extract their flesh to satisfy its zombie-esque cravings.This plot line because too monotonous and took the chill out of what was supposed to scare the viewer.

At first glance, the film seemed somewhat slightly clichéd - with the two people at the start investigating a trashed (ish) house, and the eerie sounds and atmosphere, i wasn't sure if I expected a twist in the blade kinda film where it all ridiculously escalated into a grim video slideshow of gore, guts and some boob or a lengthy shitty fail of a film that focused on shock thrill in a cheap and immature manner. The film is focused on a series of tapes that relate to each other in a variety of ways, so watching the whole thing properly is definitely a help. The angle technique is one of a 3d kind of view, shots of characters filming come in various angles throughout the film, with the stuttering and eventual distorted sound of the audio made for each sequence. The actual film is bizarre, gory, nasty and sometimes a little humorous (in a sick way) depending on your horror tolerance, so for a film in the genre of found footage horror and gore focused violence, it's really a perfect representation of what a modern horror of that kind should be like. It is artistic from an effects point of view, some of it like the minotaur style/whatever monster chasing the cameraman, is completely ridiculous but nevertheless very entertaining and varied throughout the vast majority of the picture.Rating this you have to remember it's a horror with strong elements of gory bloody violence, so on that front i'd give it a 7.5 for it's thoroughly entertaining and (at times) completely absurd violence, and for its variety of events managing to lock into each other toward the finish.

V/H/S/2 is one of those rare sequels that is miles better than the original movie, which squandered its intriguing found-footage anthology format on several rather weak and poorly executed stories. This time around, the result is far more successful as a whole, with three out of the four main stories being absolute stonkers.After introducing matters with the obligatory wraparound tale—an investigator and his assistant searching for a missing college student break into a house where they find a stack of mysterious video cassettes—the film begins proper with the slotting of tape number one into the video player...Phase I Clinical Trials, directed by Adam Wingard (You're Next), sees an accident victim having one of his eyes surgically replaced with an experimental eye-camera, after which he begins to see horrific visions of dead people. A young woman warns him that he mustn't try to interact with these frightening apparitions (she even tries to distract him by having sex with him!), but she is too late: the ghosts have already been acknowledged and now have the power to kill. This tale benefits from solid performances and decent special effects, and most importantly, skillful direction from Wingard (a film-maker I had virtually written off after You're Next and The ABCs of Death). Wingard really delivers the scares here, making this one to watch with the light on.Things get even better with the next story, A Ride In The Park, co-directed by Gregg Hale and Eduardo Sánchez, who take a well worn sub-genre and give it a refreshing new lease of life (or is that 'death'?). Jay Saunders plays a cyclist who is attacked and killed by the the living dead while out on his bike; now a zombie himself, the man's undead antics are recorded by his GoPro camera, which is attached to his cycle helmet. Excitement, gore and a bittersweet payoff make this my favourite of all the stories.Up next is Safe Haven, co-directed by Gareth Evans, the man who gave us the awesome action flicks The Raid and The Raid 2, and Timo Tjahjanto. This one starts of pretty slow, with a film crew making a documentary about a strange religious cult, but it gets seriously bonkers once the cult's members begin to commit suicide in order to bring about the birth of a giant, horned, winged demon. Evans' trademark kinetic direction and loads of extreme gore go to make Safe Haven a whole lot of splattery fun once it kicks into gear, with such grisly sights as someone having their face blown off by a shotgun, a full body explosion, and the massive demon tearing its way out of a woman's stomach.This leads us to the last and rather disappointing tale, Slumber Party Alien Abduction, by director Jason Eisener (Hobo With A Shotgun), which is even worse than the title suggests. The plot sees group of teenagers having a sleepover which is crashed by malevolent extraterrestrials who try to abduct them. This not-very-scary sci-fi story doesn't sit very well with the previous episodes, and matters are made much worse with Eisener's dreadful direction and lousy editing which makes following the action virtually impossible. Once the aliens attack, the camera shakes all over the place and bright lights are shone directly into the lens while the characters scream a lot. It all proves extremely irritating.Thankfully V/H/S/2 has a few more effective scares up its sleeve before the end credits roll, the wraparound tale closing with the investigator being hunted by his assistant, who has somehow been transformed into a zombie by the videocassettes.One bad tale out of four (five if you include the intro and outro) isn't at all bad, though; I only hope that V/H/S: Viral, the third in the series, continues the trend (although a quick look at current reviews casts serious doubt over that!).