Having acquired a heap of knowledge and a pile of leftover tapes from their first outing, this second installment of the V/H/S horror line feels more polished and... boring... than the first. Sure, everything tied together better in a central theme: private detectives are asked to look for a college student who's been missing for a few days. At his house, they find lots of static-y monitors and piles of VHS tapes.
This time, it all feels more predictable in its narration. There's a story with ghosts, one with zombies, one with occult, and one with aliens. It's all nice and tidy. And that's what makes it boring.
V/H/S/2
2013, 95 minutes, directed by Simon Barrett, Adam Wingard, Eduardo Sanchez, Gregg Hale, Timo Tjahjanto, Gareth Huw Evans, and Jason Eisener
The Paramount was already running an hour late after their first film. I stayed in line for Evil Dead for two hours, but when the film was supposed to have started and the previous screening was still letting out, I bailed for dinner and a sure spot at this midnight film. Knowing now that some people made it (barely) to both thanks to V/H/S/2 also being inexplicably delayed, and knowing that I didn't care much for the midnight film, makes me angrier at the Paramount and SXSW for being unable to keep their schedules even remotely on time.
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