(Frightfest Day 2)
Continues the brilliance of the first one whilst engaging in an ongoing search to find unusual places to attach a camera. Of the films Safe Haven easily blows everything else out of the water with it's relentless insanity.
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Does what the first did just as well and shows there's still good ideas to be found in found footage. But for how much longer?
ReplyDeleteTwo crackers here - zombie head cam and Gareth Evans' cult craziness (although that was barely found footage)
ReplyDeleteNot a bad follow up to V/H/S, especially Safe Haven, but seriously overhyped. For me, there wasn't a single segment in V/H/S 2 that
ReplyDeleteeclipsed any segment of the previous film. With V/H/S you genuinely didn't know what to expect from each subsequent segment and the tension and fear were palpable.
V/H/S 2 by contrast, felt like it was treading familiar ground. A marked drop-off from the first installment and something of a disappointment, given all the hype.
Again very good, but overall probably down a touch overall. The first was effectively creepy (once you accept the ludicrous camera), the second a great idea with a lame end, the third quite marvellous (despite making the same mistake I made with berberian sound studios), but the last was poor (although I didn't concentrate on the first couple minutes as I was reading what was happening in Safe Haven)
ReplyDeleteThat should read "down a touch on the first"
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