I’m going with the assumption that we’ve all seen V/H/S, the original, right?  If not, it’s another found footage, a film within a film (or rather several films within a film) and directed by a  handful of different directors.  And it did well enough that they came out with V/H/S/2.

I liked the original enough that I jumped at the chance for  a screener of the second. And I have to say while I don’t remember tons about the first one, I liked the second one a lot better, especially the outside frame story.

Searching for a missing student, two private investigators break into his abandoned house and find a collection of mysterious VHS tapes.  In viewing the horrific contents of each cassette, they realize there may be terrifying motives behind the student’s disappearance.

This movie did NOT dissuade me from still wanting to be a PI.

I dunno about those “terrifying motives” the blurb from the box mentions but there definitely were a couple of scary moments here, a few creepy  moments and a whole helluva lot of bloody ones.  And at least one sweet one, which probably wasn’t meant to be sweet but it was.  Awwww!!!

Our first VHS tape tells the story of a guy with a robotic eye who sees dead people (typical really) and while fun, didn’t do too much for me.  The second was, I believe, the zombie one which was the one that had the sweet moment (because zombies just want to be people too y’all!!!).  That was also one of the more fun ones because of the way it’s filmed – we see everything from a zombie’s point of view.  Def nice.  And then we had the one about the cult, which may have been the creepiest but was, in my opinion, the most boring.  Full of blood and ick but somehow it still couldn’t quite capture my attention (is this a side effect of getting old????  😦  ).  And the last was the alien one which was actually super fun and possibly my favorite.  Just the action in that one and the energy and oh, the dog, the wee little dog!

ALIENS!!!!

Do you need to own V/H/S/2?  No.  Should you watch it?  Def.