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V/H/S: Viral

R Released Nov 21, 2014 1h 22m Horror List
34% Tomatometer 32 Reviews 13% Popcornmeter 5,000+ Ratings
A police chase through the streets of Los Angeles inspires dozens of fame-obsessed teens to try to capture the salacious footage, but they are unaware that they will face their own deaths as stars of the next video sensation.
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V/H/S/: Viral is hardly a sensation as it cycles through the franchise's least frightening vignettes yet.

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Candice Frederick Reel Talk Online I was mostly waiting for it to end. Rated: F+ Sep 1, 2017 Full Review Doug Knoop Seattle Times I couldn't wait to hit eject on this whole jittery mess. Rated: 1/4 Nov 28, 2014 Full Review Jordan Hoffman Guardian I recognize that it's part of the great horror tradition to beat a marketable name into the ground, but that doesn't make up for the disappointment. Rated: 1/5 Nov 21, 2014 Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review An unwatchable mess. Rated: 1/4 Jul 18, 2022 Full Review Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com While this is the only portion of this franchise entry to remotely deal with this motif, it's also the least effective, lacking in any real kind of cohesive design. Rated: 1/5 Sep 12, 2019 Full Review Molly Henery The Blogging Banshee I think aside from the shorts being more nonsensical and not even remotely scary, the thing that upset me the most was the overarching storyline of "Vicious Circles." Rated: 3.5/10 Nov 3, 2018 Full Review Read all reviews

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Diana S There's definitely some superfluous fluff as well as cheesy meatballs material in this one, but the overall message was ahead of its time, and I can't help thinking if it were released now, it would be received better. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 09/04/24 Full Review Dan R 2014's 'V/H/S Viral' wants to continue the hype from the previous two installments but fails dramatically. SYNOPSIS: 'A Los Angeles police chase sends a fame-obsessed man on a wild ride to save his girlfriend from a cybernetic terror.' There are some interesting ideas here for stories but the most annoying thing about this collection is that it's dumber than its predecessors when it really shouldn't be. It's a lazy film though. It contains some of the sloppiest, most ineffective filmmaking I've seen in a long time. That's not defendable. A mess! 5/10 Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 08/25/24 Full Review Gorptholemew T 🍀2.7/10 🚮 certified stinker 🚮 There's a huge part of me that wants to like this, but it's just so bad. I guess the overarching segment is. Vicious circle and it's pretty bad. It has glimmer of goodness, but is overall tarnished by weird tiny pieces that really just don't fit and whatever the fuck that family barbecue was, was just so cringy 0.5/10

Dante, the great. OK now this is actually really entertaining if you look at it from a satire it's a great comedy not at all what I want from V/H/S but like it has just hilarious moments but overall really unneeded 2/10 the swat fight was pretty fun

Parallel monster. I feel like I should like this more because it has a strong beginning, but I just got bored at the end, but I mean like bro that last shot was a bombastic with his head going in like WTF. 4.5/10

Bonestorm. Another that I feel like I should like because there's glimmers of goodness but the main leads are very unlikable and I just did not connect with it at all and wanted it to be over. 3/10

My average score for V/H/S viral is a 2.7/10 hey utterly disappointing and low point for the franchise. Grade D+ Rated 1 out of 5 stars 11/28/23 Full Review Russell H Sucked and not scary at all Rated 2 out of 5 stars 10/30/23 Full Review Axel Andres S De toda la saga de V/H/S, esta es la más floja y la peór de la historia de V/H/S, qué en más se parece una película del montón, con lo más destacable es el metraje de la Tormenta de Huesos osea la 3ra cinta qué sale en la película, donde es lo único que vale la pena de destacar. Y la trama principal qué de verdad siento que deja mucho que desear, en donde siento que este film no llega a superar mis expectativas pero por tener el título encima la verdad para maratonear con unos amigos. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 10/12/23 Full Review Chance W A disgusting and terrible movie that will never live up to its predecessors I would rather kill my self than watch this terrible movie ever again Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 04/30/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A police chase through the streets of Los Angeles inspires dozens of fame-obsessed teens to try to capture the salacious footage, but they are unaware that they will face their own deaths as stars of the next video sensation.
Director
Justin Benson, Gregg Bishop, Todd Lincoln, Aaron Moorhead, Marcel Sarmiento, Nacho Vigalondo
Producer
Justin Benson, Gary Binkow, Gregg Bishop, Theo Brooks, Dan Caudill, Stephen Caudill, Adam Hendricks
Screenwriter
Justin Benson, Nacho Vigalondo, Gregg Bishop, Marcel Sarmiento, Todd Lincoln, T.J. Cimfel, David White
Distributor
Magnolia Pictures
Production Co
8383 Productions, The Collective, Bloody Disgusting
Rating
R (Language|Gore|Disturbing Strong Violence|Sexual Content|Some Drug Use)
Genre
Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 21, 2014, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 17, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$2.6K
Runtime
1h 22m
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