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V/H/S/99 (2022)

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Broke Horror Fan is proud to present the big box artwork for V/H/S/99. The limited edition, fully functional VHS is sale now at Witter Entertainment.

The fifth installment in the found footage franchise arrives on VHS with a big box featuring artwork by Broke Horror Fan’s Alex DiVincenzo and a blue VHS (limited to 50). The standard slipcase edition with art by Creepy Duck Design is also in stock.

All editions include exclusive introductions by directors Maggie Levin (Into the Dark: My Valentine) and Tyler MacIntyre (Tragedy Girls).

For optimal VHS viewing, the film has been cropped from its original aspect ratio to 4:3 full frame. It is officially licensed from RLJE Films/Shudder.

Witness a hellish vision of 1999, as social isolation, analog technology and disturbing home videos fuse into a nightmare of found footage savagery.

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V/H/S/99 (2022)

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V/H/S/99 (2022)

Director: Maggie Levin, Johannes Roberts, Flying Lotus, Tyler MacIntyre, Vanessa & Joseph Winter Cinematography: Alexander Chinnici, Alex Choonoo, Jared Cook & Nicholas Piatnik

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BLOGTOBER 10/23/2022: V/H/S/99

Sorry if this is barely a review of the actual movie, but it's what I have to say.

My father is a retired art critic whose name you'd probably know if you were into art critics. One day when I was a kid and trying to give him a hard time about his profession, I asked him some pointed question about how he approaches bad reviews. He said that he only printed things that he thought the artist might find it useful to hear, and that shut me up. I don't know if that was strictly true all the time, but it stuck in my mind, even though it may not have sunk in right away.

I used to write about movies in a pretty aggressive way. There are various reasons for that. The most innocent one is that my earliest experience was writing coverage of submissions to what was meant to be an all-horror cable network; I had to watch and write about around ten movies a week, and a lot of them were pretty brutal, made by people who either couldn't make a decent movie or, much worse, who thought you didn't even have to try as long as you were making a horror movie. I felt really attacked by the latter type, and I retaliated in stronger and stronger terms until figuring out the meanest thing I could possibly say had become sort of a hobby. I never thought very much about writing publicly, so I never considered my audience. When I started blogging later, I remained pretty obscure, so it still felt reasonable to use writing as a rage valve. Inevitably, though, I grew up a little more, and had to think about what the point of writing really was for me—and the answer was not that I just wanted to be a dick. I wanted to express abstract feelings that art gave me in a way that other people could access if they wanted to. There were things I wanted to explore, discoveries I could only make by trying to verbalize something about a movie, theories I could only prove if the words I chose seemed to work. Plus, I realized, there are people in the world besides myself. Making movies, even bad ones, is really hard, and I'm increasingly meeting people who try it. I became more circumspect about when I wrote out of anger, regardless of who I thought would ever read it.

I have noticed that it's extremely common for people to mistakenly equate intelligence with just being insulting. They think the word "criticism" is inherently negative, and they assume "critical thought" must always result in tearing something down. I once dated a guy like that, and as you might imagine, it was a nightmare. He was always bragging about his class rank and his SAT score, even though those things were far in the past and he never pursued more than a bachelor's degree. His whole manner of displaying intelligence was to as elaborately hostile as possible, about whatever he was discussing; almost the only time he ever had anything nice to say was when he'd stolen a positive opinion from a Rolling Stone article or something. When he was trying to sound smart (which was most of the time), he'd just string together as many malicious adjectives as possible in front of whatever his subject was. I know how that feels, to malign something at full strength; it feels powerful. But if you hear somebody else do it enough times, you start to realize how limited and pathetic it is.

All that said, I wasn't crazy about V/H/S/99. If I had taken the time to watch another movie yesterday, I would have included that in my Blogtober program instead. It's hard to know what to say about this movie that's at all useful. The V/H/S series is often a mixed bag, which is maybe more forgivable for an anthology than a one-story feature, and I try to watch them with an eye toward whatever part I enjoy the most. This time out, it's harder than usual for me to pick.

In Maggie Levin's aggressively '90s-flavored "Shredding", a wannabe band explores the ruins of a destroyed music venue where legendary riot grrls Bitch Cat played their final show. Naturally, Bitch Cat is still in there, but now they're a bunch of freaky ghouls. There are some superfluous details about why this is, but like, they're really superfluous, much like the imitation '90s rock music that turns up a bit too often. The ghouls look pretty good though, if you squint hard enough through all the stylized digital glitching.

Johannes Roberts' "Suicide Bid" is my favorite segment, although I still find myself picking around my least favorite parts. In this very Tales from the Crypt-y short, Ally Ioannides is so desperate to belong to her sorority of choice that she doesn't even notice they're obviously about to haze her. It is genuinely horrifying to watch her come to terms with the fact that she has been buried alive and abandoned in a grave that is slowly filling with rainwater. I found the ending a little dashed off, but some of it definitely got my attention.

Edgy, arty hip hop star Flying Lotus made a movie in 2017 called KUSO that is as hard to watch as it is to forget: a delirious, paranoid, blackly comic fantasy with touches of ERASERHEAD and SPACE IS THE PLACE, featuring moments of genius dog-paddling in a mire of scatological drek. It's a movie you can smell, expressing a hysterical fear and loathing of bodies in general, and of women specifically, and it's hard to enjoy even if it is occasionally inspired and hilarious. Anyway, I almost could have guessed that the V/H/S/99 segment "Ozzy's Dungeon" was made by Flying Lotus. It's a nightmare vision of the Nickolodeon game show Double Dare in which two kid competitors struggle through a dangerous obstacle course styled after the human digestive system, in order to have their "favorite wish" granted. I enjoyed the actual mechanism of wish-granting, but you have to wade through a lot of shit—literally!—in order to get there.

Tyler McIntyre's "The Gawkers" is the source of the movie's confusing wrap material, which is an extremely crude stopmotion movie involving toy soldiers and a lot of ketchup or whatever. This actually bothered me the most out of everything in V/H/S/99, because it so poorly represents homemade productions like this; there are zillions of non-professionals of all ages out there making cheap, charming, fun little hobbyist productions like this with way more creativity and ability, why didn't they just hire one of those guys? But anyway, it turns out the toy soldier stuff is made by a group of unusually obnoxious teenage boys who dupe their weakest link into installing spyware on the computer of the hot chick next door. Spoiler alert: the hot chick turns out to be Medusa! This is a great idea for a movie about voyeurism, and with a longer running time one could explore the important role of the video camera in this misadventure, but unfortunately the vast majority of this short is just shitty teenagers loudly talking over each other. Indoor voices guys, please, for the luva mike!

Finally, Vanessa and Joseph Winters' "To Hell and Back" was convoluted enough that I had to look up what exactly happened in it to write about it the next day, and I found that I wasn't sure I'd actually seen all of what's described in online synopses. This just means that, as I did recall properly, the segment is really dark and hard to parse visually. This is a problem that dogs the V/H/S series because there's pressure to add realism by layering on all kinds of distortion on top of footage that is forcibly non-professional looking. Basically, I didn't hate this story about a camera crew who are accidentally sent to hell during the filming of a magic ritual, but I also couldn't get a lot out of it.

Thus I hope have managed to review V/H/S/99 without being a total dick, but it's still pretty clear what I thought of it. There's no #hailraatma moment in here for me to cling to, and at almost every moment I was just hoping for the inevitable murders to be expedited so I could spend less time with the many loud, awful characters in this movie. Don't get me wrong, I'll watch V/H/S/85 too, when it comes out next year, but I'm on my guard.

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V/H/S/99 (2022) Johannes Roberts, Vanessa Winter, Joseph Winter, Maggie Levin, Tyler MacIntyre, Flying Lotus.

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V/H/S/99

V/H/S/99 is a gritty, bitty car crash into memory lane that impressively stitches its eclecticism together like a grotesque mixtape.

A punk band awakens evil spirits in a condemned music venue. A sorority initiation goes horribly wrong. An exploitative gameshow host is kidnapped and tortured by a devastated mother. Sex-obsessed teenagers uncover a terrifying secret about the girl next door. Two cameramen get sucked into Hell as they film a coven of witches. These are the five narratives which compose V/H/S/99. And despite the…

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V/H/S/99:

Teen’s DIY short

Reveals segments of horror

Now with more monsters

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[Review] V/H/S/99 (2022) by Marcus Wilturner

[Review] V/H/S/99 (2022) by Marcus Wilturner @EgoCriticDemise #31DaysOfHorror #Horror #HorrorReview #HorrorMonth #VHS99

The indomitable anthology sub-genre, which was once a framing device sporadically attempted in horror, is back in full swing, churning out a fair amount of successful outings that have brought back the nostalgia and makeshift modern features. Projects like Southbound (2015), Creepshow (2019), Tales of Halloween (2015), and Books of Blood (2020).  Plus with Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet of…

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"V/H/S/99"

If the studio continues hiring interesting directors and keeps putting together fun films like this, the franchise will remain far from being past its prime.

This film was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival “V/H/S/99” continues the popular found footage film series with a group of shorts that take place as the new millennium is about to begin. The year is 1999, and the kids are restless and angsty. This feeling and mood carries through to each segment, with most featuring female-centered stories and all of them having a plot where…

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El último horror de metraje encontrado sangriento de Shudder

El último horror de metraje encontrado sangriento de Shudder

imagen: Estremecimiento los el miedo apocalíptico de Y2Kcapturado por la última era de usuarios de videocámaras, cobra gran importancia V/H/S/99quinto en V/H/S una serie de antología de terror de metraje encontrado. A diferencia del año pasado V/H/S/94esta entrega recopila cinco historias no relacionadas unidas por un editor invisible que tiene el buen instinto de guardar lo mejor para el…

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V/H/S/99 (2022) Found-footage horror anthology coming to Shudder - now with teaser trailer

V/H/S/99 (2022) Found-footage horror anthology coming to Shudder – now with teaser trailer

V/H/S/99 is a 2022 American found-footage horror anthology film about a thirsty teenager’s home video that leads to a series of horrifying revelations. The movie showcases genre filmmakers Flying Lotus (Kuso), Maggie Levin (Into The Dark: My Valentine), Tyler MacIntyre (Tragedy Girls), Johannes Roberts (Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City; 47 Meters Down) and Joseph and Vanessa Winter…

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V/H/S/99 (2022)

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