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22 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83The PlaylistWilliam GossThe PlaylistWilliam GossV/H/S delivers the thrills and chills craftily and with a better batting average than usual.
- 80Boxoffice MagazineSara Maria VizcarrondoBoxoffice MagazineSara Maria VizcarrondoSure it's fun - and painful - but it's not thin.
- 75The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasIt also, in its best moments, makes horror out of the 21st-century obsession with self-documentation.
- Refreshingly, V/H/S promises no more than it delivers, always a plus with genre fare.
- 63Slant MagazineSlant MagazineAn anthology of found-footage horror shorts that exudes, sometimes extraordinarily, a neophyte's sense of courage and cluelessness.
- 50VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyThe segments vary in quality and the whole overstays its welcome at nearly two hours.
- 50Village VoiceVillage VoiceIn too many of the shorts, bad acting quickly undermines the "authenticity" the aesthetics labor to achieve.
- 50SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirI'm not sure V/H/S is brilliant cinema or anything – indeed, I'm not sure it's appropriate to call it cinema at all – but it sure is an ingenious hybrid: part Godardian art film, part abstract video experiment, part sleazy shocker, and all self-castigating interrogation of what film-theory types call the "male gaze."
- 40Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfIt's too bad V/H/S starts off on such a high note. Mainly, the omnibus film feels undercooked, even on the grounds of its forced technological setup.
- 25Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertV/H/S is an example of the genre at its least compelling.