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Thursday, November 1, 2012

Movie #82 V/H/S


V/H/S (2012)


The beginning of the movie is very confusing because it doesn’t feel like a movie just started.  Things are happening without any explanation at all.  First a couple of guys grab a chick in a parking lot and lift her shirt up, exposing her breasts.  BOOBS!  It feels dirty and rapey though.  I like it 0%.  From there they go and smash up some trailer, filming everything on their little camcorder.  They get back to a house and watch the tapes with one of them saying they get paid to make the dirty boob videos.  They get paid to break into some house and all they have to do is steal a video tape.  Oh and also a couple of people’s home sex video has been spliced in.

They get inside the house and find it empty except for 1 dead guy and a bunch of TVs and movies.  One guy I think plays the a tape and this movie is going to be just like Trick ‘R Treat; multiple stories are going to take place.  I have to say that I’m kind of glad because the four guys looking for the tape are pretty crummy individuals and I am already rooting for their death.  The first video shows three guys in a bathroom with one of them trying on camera spy glasses.  Two of them are total bros and remind me of some old, horrible roommates.  Again I will be cheering for their deaths.  They all go out bars and try to pick up some babes.  In the middle of it they find this crazy looking chick with the creepiest eyes ever.  Eventually they get kicked out and on the way home give the creepy girl some cocaine.

One of the guys and chicks start making out on one bed while spy glasses guy and the creepy chick sit on another bed.  That chick passes out so the dude start making out with crazy eyes while she does weird hissing and does not looked amused.  He strips her naked (we see everything unfortunately) and see that she has like serpent feet.  She starts getting freaky with glasses too but when the their guy takes his pants off she says no.  I guess two dudes is her limit.  Out of nowhere she takes a bite out of one guy and starts tearing up another.  She grows fangs and other succubus appendages meaning that bro is dead.  Yes!  Before she kills him, she rips off his hand and uses it to muzzle him.  Also I’ve seen the same dong twice which will factor in the final rating.  Crazy eyes kills the other guy so all that is left is glasses.  He peeks around to see her sucking his blood and then in a sound that resembles popping a wine cork, tears of his ding dong and nugget pouch, which still counts.  Glasses gets away but she catches up on the stairwell.  Out of nowhere we see he’s above the building very high and notice wings.  Eyes sprouted them, snatched him up and they flew away.  The end.

The crappy dudes find another tape and pop it in.  The next movie is a home movie of a couple taking a vacation out in the west.  They go to one of those fortune telling machines like in big and it says that the wife is going to be reunited with a past love one and not to be too trusting.  He starts getting a little frisky with her on camera when there’s a knock at the door.  It was a girl asking if they would give her a ride and the husband just describes her as weird because we don’t get to see her.  That night we think the wife is filming the husband sleeping until the camera pans to the wife too.  Someone is in their room!  It pulls down her sheets and pops out a switch blade.  Their still sleeping and this is very tense.  They must be very heavy sleepers because I would be up already. 

We see that it’s the chick because she steals the guy’s money and then goes into the bathroom and dunks his toothbrush in the toilet.  She got him!  That ends and it’s day time.  The next day the missing money has the squabbling over why she took the money.  After spending the day at the Grand Canyon they get back to their hotel room and all I can think is don’t go to sleep, that’s when the bad lady comes.  This time she doesn’t mess around and cuts his whole throat in his sleep.  We then see her making out with the wife in the bathroom as she cleans up.  Looks like that was the past love.

That movie ends and we see that the dead guy is no longer in the chair but it seems to have gone unnoticed by the chumps.  Not good.  The third movie looks to be a couple of teenagers on a road trip.  They get real close to and honk to horn at a hitchhiker who will probably be showing up in the future for revenge.  They are going to a lake and it seems a lot like the beginning of cabin in the woods.  My producer said that she’s 100% sure that the blond chick is going to get naked.  Also the camera starts randomly tweaking out and showing dead bodies that no one seems to notice.  The creepier chick randomly says the line “your all going to f****** die up here”.  By the way, the first VHS was called Amateur Night, the second was Second Honeymoon and this one is called Tuesday the 17th.  One guy strips down and jumps into the lake.  I only saw his butt and no dong so this one is ok.

The blond and the other guy walk out into the woods together and get stabbed by someone that only appears on the camera I guess.  The chick gets stabbed  through her eye and the guy holding the camera gets his face stabbed also.  The weird chick who told everyone that their deaths were imminent picks up the camera and asks the guy from the lake if he wants to f***.  Way too brash and not attractive.  He asks her about the murders and she says that the stabber was beyond insane and evil.  The camera tweaks out a little and that always means the murderer is coming.  She says that she is using them as bait to get the guy.  He gets his throat slit and she runs away in fear.  Through the chase she leads him into a number of traps but he manages to get out each time.  She tells herself that she came back for nothing and runs to get away.  There is the classic trip  that the girl always makes while running and she says into the camera “if you are watching this, don’t come here” like the person won’t have to come to the woods to pick it up.  He gets spiked on a trap but seems to be invincible and kills her.  Some disemboweling occurs and the movie just kind of ends.

The guy is back in his chair and two of the punks are missing.  It seems that the movies have probably gotten better each time which means the fourth one has to be the best yet right?  A guy and a girl are skyping and the chick resembles a bird just a little bit.  She says that she bruised her arm and doesn’t remember how.  I was thinking that maybe they were brother in sister but after she does a topless shake in front of the camera it appears that they are more of a couple.  She gives a him a virtual tour of her apartment and says she hears footsteps sometimes.  They skype another time and she can hear something outside her door.  She is convinced that her apartment is haunted.  A girl appears in the hallway and slams the door shut.  The guy thinks that he saw something but it could have just been the breeze.  WHY DO THEY ALWAYS NOT JUST BELIEVE IN THESE MOVIES!  Her bruise arm still isn’t getting any better. 

Another night and she hears more noises.  She does some investigating with the skype and we see the girl again.  Creepy.  We see her arm and it is a horrible bloody mess.  The guy says that the same thing happened to her leg seven years ago.  Another night and more voices.  This time she comes up with the bright idea of talking to the ghost.  She tells him that ghosts freak her out.  Weird they don’t do that to anyone else.  The door is opened and we don’t see any ghosts at first.  My producer and I are expecting a big jump to come.  The little girl appears and then see a few girls.  The camera goes totally bright and we see her on the ground.  A guy walks in and opens her stomach with a scalpel.  Pretty weird.  It’s the boyfriend and he’s talking to the ghosts.  He says something to them like “you’re telling me this thing is part human” and he pulls what looks like a fetus out of her.  Then he leaves.

The poor girl goes to a psychiatrist and is diagnosed a schizophrenic and tells the guy he’s so good to her.  The guy starts skyping with another girl and she shows boobs too!  She has the same bruise on her arm.  Movie over kind of unexplained.  The dead guy and person watching the movies is gone so there’s only one left.  I’m starting to think the punks are the fifth movie.  The “dead” guy is some kind of beast and opens his face really wide to kill the last punk.

The fourth movie was called that sick thing that happened to Emily when she was younger and this last one is called 10/31/98 which happens to be the date on the camcorder which is filming four guys that are in between middle aged and college students going to a costume party.  They get to the house and it’s completely empty.  It could be the same house that the punks had just broken into.  They think it’s just a haunted house but we are seeing ghosts and arms reaching out of walls.  Upstairs a guy sees a girl in a mirror and then she’s gone.  Also a bear that was downstairs is now lying on the bed.  All the lights shut off and the group seems to be split in two.  They regroup and go deeper.  There’s some suspense going on for sure but these guys are clowns and I wouldn’t mind them getting sucked into some evil dimension.  I sound like a pretty bad person wanting everyone to die.  They go into the attic and see some occult virgin sacrifice going on.  The camera shorts out and we hear some evil howling.  Two of the cult members are sucked onto the ceiling.  They are about to leave but they go back to save the virgin.

A struggled ensues but more of the cultists are sucked onto the ceiling.  A hand reaches out of the floor at them and floors and birds start flying everywhere.  Hand prints appear on walls and the door molds into a wall.  They get the dumb idea of hiding into the basement because everywhere else is blocked.  Hands are coming out of everywhere and they get out of the cellar door.  They get her in the car and start driving away.  The car breaks down and she disappears.  After searching around she shows up in front of the car.  They are locked in the car on train tracks and get drilled.  The end.

FAVORITE SCENE : Instead of favorite scene, I thought I would just rank the movies from best to worst.  Tuesday the 17 (3rd one), 10/31/98 (5th one), The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily When She Was Younger (4th one), Second Honeymoon (2nd one) and Amateur Night (1st one).

FAVORITE QUOTES : Not super well written dialogue here.

PRETENTIOUS RATING(S): “I came, I saw, I hunkered” Christopher Orr.  You big bastard, do you think you’re funny? 
“Perhaps it’s time to put the POV, found footage horror subgenre out to pasture, the way the western faded into obscurity”.  I can think of something else I want to go out to pasture.
“If I owned this movie on a real VHS tape, I’d record over it” Mike McGranaghan.  If I owned the transcripts to every review that you have ever put down professor McGonagall, I’d probably stop reading after two.
“Watching douche bags get their comeuppance loses its charms after the fourth or fifth time through”  this one I actually agree with but instead of saying comeuppance needs to be changed.

RATING: 5 Fun Dips.  Make that four because I saw a guy’s doinker.  This movie had a really creepy trailer and I was looking forward to it but not one of the five shorts really delivered.  It’s too bad because I thought the movie had a pretty good concept and could have been a lot better.  Que lastima.

ALTERNATE ENDING: Just like Trick ‘R Treat, the whole movie is an alternate ending.

WHAT WOULD I DO IF I WAS THE MAIN CHARACTER : For each: Never be friends with those punks, never be friends with those bros, never get married to someone who wants to sleep in another bed on a honeymoon, never go in the woods with someone who is going to tell me I’m going to die, never date girls to harvest fetus’ and never break into empty houses.  Boom.
WHAT HAPPENS IN THE SEQUEL : Michael Bay directs all five shorts, it makes 200 million but no one really likes it.

 Douche stache
 Most girls brought home from bars might end up looking like this
 I've seen worse
 Peaceful nap in the woods.  Oh autumn.
 Caw!  Caw!
All I hear is my dad telling five year old me not to put my hands on the wall because it leaves marks on the paint.  All I can think of is how I want my house to look like this once I get to make the rules.

There are so many found footage movies around, maybe it's time for a CandyandaMovie original to be made.

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