While watching this, I didnt have a bad time, but the more I thought about it and compared it to 1 and 2 (didnt see the third VHS flick), the more I dont like.
The first one was really solid and it had in my opinion two great segments (emily and amateur night), two good ones (98 and tuesday) and a really terrible one, the honeymoon thing. The frame narrative was good enough, scary and tense, with a nice paranormal touch and the criminals getting their comeuppance.
The second one was a bit worse imo, the detective in the frame narrative was cool, safe haven is the best segment in the entire franchise, but the rest of them were just mediocre, no stinkers but nothing that good. Frame narrative ended with a nice twist, some cool action and a messed up but kinda funny bad ending.
But this one is just hard to understand. First of all, the frame narrative fails, it just doesnt any make sense, it feels like they're trying to make the two members behind that place look cool, but they sell snuff films that put people in a trance. Also, in the first one, they were some lowlife criminals, and in the second one, it was just a shady detective and his assistant. Now its a swat team but I guess that no one from the police force will realize that the whole team is dead except the two girls? Really, really stupid.
The tapes themselves.aren't that great either. Subject is really cool with Timo being once again the best part of the film, I also liked Storm Drain, mainly because I find sewers super creepy and the main actress was just fantastic, but Empty Wake sucked which is disappointing since I like Simon Barrett, and Terror wasnt really a horror thing until the last minute and a half, it took way too long to get going and then it just ends. Shame, because the monster design was cool.
If each segment is worth 2 points, Subject gets 2, Storm Drain gets 1.5 and Terror gets 0.5 because of the teeth guy. Maybe just watch Subject and then go watch something else.
The first one was really solid and it had in my opinion two great segments (emily and amateur night), two good ones (98 and tuesday) and a really terrible one, the honeymoon thing. The frame narrative was good enough, scary and tense, with a nice paranormal touch and the criminals getting their comeuppance.
The second one was a bit worse imo, the detective in the frame narrative was cool, safe haven is the best segment in the entire franchise, but the rest of them were just mediocre, no stinkers but nothing that good. Frame narrative ended with a nice twist, some cool action and a messed up but kinda funny bad ending.
But this one is just hard to understand. First of all, the frame narrative fails, it just doesnt any make sense, it feels like they're trying to make the two members behind that place look cool, but they sell snuff films that put people in a trance. Also, in the first one, they were some lowlife criminals, and in the second one, it was just a shady detective and his assistant. Now its a swat team but I guess that no one from the police force will realize that the whole team is dead except the two girls? Really, really stupid.
The tapes themselves.aren't that great either. Subject is really cool with Timo being once again the best part of the film, I also liked Storm Drain, mainly because I find sewers super creepy and the main actress was just fantastic, but Empty Wake sucked which is disappointing since I like Simon Barrett, and Terror wasnt really a horror thing until the last minute and a half, it took way too long to get going and then it just ends. Shame, because the monster design was cool.
If each segment is worth 2 points, Subject gets 2, Storm Drain gets 1.5 and Terror gets 0.5 because of the teeth guy. Maybe just watch Subject and then go watch something else.