Tubi Thursday: V/H/S 2 (2013)

 After finally covering the Original last week, I might as well do the Sequel.

Is this a tape you'd want to return or never bring back to Blockbuster?

In the Framing Device (aka Tape 49), a man who films people for money (like a Private Detective) is hired to find a missing man.

Him and his girlfriend go to that guy's house...and he leaves her to watch the tapes.

In 'Phase 1 Clinical Trials,' a man- Adam Wingard- is given a cybernetic eye as a Trial.

Unfortunately, this leads him to see weird things, like a bloody man and child.

In 'A Ride in the Park,' a man goes for a nice bike ride before meeting a woman in need of help.

He's bitten and transforms into something strange.

Call on the horde.

In 'Safe Haven,' a group of Investigative Journalists meet up with a man leading a strange Cult.

He agrees to let them film him and his people at the Compound, but things go horribly awry.

I'm shocked...

In 'Slumber Party Alien Abduction,' a group of kids mess with the Sister and Boyfriend (who is over while the Parents are out).

The games end when Aliens show up!

To see the Film version of this, go here.

We get the wrap-up in 'Tape 49,' but it is pretty quick.

The End.

This is a marked improvement.  It's like going from Prom Night to Hello, Mary Lou: Prom Night 2.

The Framing Device doesn't feature terrible people, take too long and not be that interesting.  Yea!

The first Tale also gets to the point quite a bit quicker as well.  The hook is nice too.

The second Tale is probably too gory for many people, but worked well overall.

'Safe Haven' is apparently the most well-liked (and well-known) part of this whole Film.

The finale Tale is a freaky one that actually makes the Grey Aliens scary for once.

Are there problems?  Sure.
The Film Segments definitely rely too much on the 'Person looks away' or 'Camera glitches up' to cover up for Effects that would be expensive to do.

The usual.

That said, I still enjoyed this one more and I could see myself revisiting this in whole, as opposed to maybe one segment or two in the last one.

Now put on a happy face!

A Film with higher highs and not as low lows as the last one.  It is still loud and random though- don't worry.