V/H/S/99

Set at the dawn of a new millennium, V/H/S/99 presents viewers with five gory tales of found footage POV terror. In "Shredding," a bratty punk rock band breaks into the ruins of an abandoned art collective where a previous band met their grisly fate in a freak accident. In "Suicide Bid," a girl partakes in a claustrophobic hazing ritual for a sorority that soon unleashes the supernatural. Next, in "Ozzy's Dungeon," a sleazy TV show host is forced to endure a brutal obstacle gauntlet inspired by his own show, which caused the permanent disfigurement of a former contestant. In "The Gawkers," voyeuristic teenagers unearth the horrifying truth behind the girl next door. Finally, in "To Hell And Back," two filmmakers asked to document a summoning ritual on the eve of Y2K are accidentally transported to a hellish dimension, where a tormented soul guides them in escaping its demonic inhabitants.

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MovieGuys

I'm starting to wonder if there is any point to churning out more of these VHS found footage flicks. Increasingly my answer is "no". VHS99 really adds nothing terribly, new, scary or exciting to the VHS franchise. Some of the earlier VHS flicks did offer something a little different and imaginative but to me, this just feels like it was made for the sake of making it. If you have not watched a VHS horror flick before I think the earlier ones might be better place to start. This one's not awful, its mildly entertaining, just not overly original.

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