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V/H/S 2

V/H/S/2

2013 US HMDB
juin 6, 2013

Une bande de cambrioleurs à la petite semaine s’attaque à une maison isolée pour y dérober d’étranges cassettes vidéo.

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Production: Kyle David Crosby (Producer)Robin Cowie (Executive Producer)Rob Cotterill (Producer)Simon Barrett (Executive Producer)Gary Binkow (Producer)Tom Owen (Executive Producer)Adam Wingard (Executive Producer)Kimo Stamboel (Producer)Roxanne Benjamin (Producer)Chris Harding (Producer)Rangga Maya Barack-Evans (Executive Producer)Zak Zeman (Executive Producer)Adam Jenkins (Executive Producer)Brad Miska (Producer)Jamie Nash (Producer)
Scenario: Gareth Evans (Writer)Timo Tjahjanto (Story)Jason Eisener (Writer)John Davies (Writer)
Musique: Aria Prayogi (Original Music Composer)Fajar Yuskemal (Original Music Composer)James Guymon (Original Music Composer)Steve Moore (Original Music Composer)
Photographie: Tarin Anderson (Director of Photography)Seamus Tierney (Director of Photography)Abdul Dermawan Habir (Director of Photography)Jeff Wheaton (Director of Photography)Stephen Scott (Director of Photography)

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Roberto Giacomelli
Deux détectives privés enquêtent sur la disparition d'un étudiant. Après s'être introduits dans sa maison, ils trouvent une multitude de cassettes VHS. Alors que l'un part explorer la maison, l'autre commence à regarder le contenu des VHS. Première VHS. Un homme subit une opération chirurgicale expérimentale suite à un accident. On lui applique un œil bionique, mais en plus de la vue normale, l'homme acquiert également la capacité de percevoir les présences surnaturelles qui l'entourent. Deuxième VHS. Un motard fait une randonnée dans un parc mais est attaqué par ce qui semble être un mort-vivant. À partir de ce moment, le motard se transforme à son tour en un zombie à la recherche de chair fraîche. Troisième VHS. Une équipe de télévision parvient à obtenir une interview exclusive dans un palais abritant le siège d'une mystérieuse secte indonésienne. Alors que le journaliste interroge le gourou de la secte, l'enfer se déchaîne littéralement dans le bâtiment. Quatrième VHS. Une jeune fille, son petit frère, son petit ami et les amis de celui-ci passent une soirée agréable à la maison. Au milieu d'une fête improvisée, quelque chose de étrange et inquiétant se produit : une panne de courant est suivie de bruits désagréables et de figures étranges qui parviennent à s'introduire dans la maison : une invasion alien est en cours ! Après le bon succès obtenu par "V/H/S" en 2012, grâce surtout au bouche-à-oreille sur le web, Brad Miska, patron du célèbre portail web dédié au cinéma d'horreur BloodyDisgusting.com, tente la carte du sequel. Même structure en épisodes, même technique du mockumentary et un réalisateur confirmé, Adam Wingard, pour une suite qui, pour diverses raisons, réussit à surpasser le prototype. Le cinéma en épisodes et la technique du mockumentary sont devenus les territoires de prédilection du paysage horrifique low budget et indépendant, donc la prolifération partout de films de ce type atténue évidemment l'aura de nouveauté qui entourait initialement ces productions expérimentales. La relative "noveté" qui pouvait se trouver derrière "V/H/S" a donc disparu dans ce second chapitre, vu aussi la reproduction en carbone du film original. Pourtant, dans "V/H/S 2", on perçoit une amélioration, un ajustement du tir sur certaines questions qui avaient moins convaincu dans le film précédent. D'abord, il y a une meilleure qualité générale des épisodes, qui deviennent quatre (plus le cadre), rendant l'ensemble du film plus fluide et compact. On commence de la même manière identique que le précédent, c'est-à-dire avec un cadre qui puisse justifier et unir entre elles les histoires que nous voyons. "Tape 49", c'est le titre, porte la signature de Simon Barrett, déjà auteur des scripts de "Dead Birds – La maison maudite", "Frankenfish – Poissons mutants", "You're Next" et d'un segment du premier "V/H/S". Dans ce cas, sans particulièrement impressionner par la technique et l'inventivité, le cadre semble avoir une fonction narrative plus importante au sein de l'œuvre, captant avec plus d'efficacité la tradition du mockumentary de matrice surnaturelle. Le premier épisode, "Phase 1: Clinical Trails" est le pire du quartet car il rappelle de manière suspecte un épisode de la première saison de la série anthologique "Black Mirror", qui à son tour rappelait de manière tout aussi suspecte l'épisode dirigé par Tobe Hooper de "Body Bags". À le diriger c'est Adam Wingard, réalisateur de "You're Next", qui possède juste la bonne intuition de justifier le POV en le montrant comme un vidéos subjective innaturel de l'œil bionique du protagoniste, qui d'ailleurs est interprété par le même réalisateur. Pour le reste, on surcharge en présences fantomatiques dans la maison qui rappellent trop mille autres films vus ces dernières années, ne réussissant jamais ni à effrayer ni à impliquer. Le deuxième épisode, "A Ride in the Park", porte la signature de Eduardo Sánchez, célèbre pour faire partie du duo de "The Blair Witch Project" et pour avoir dirigé les remarquables "Altered" et "Lovely Molly". Cet épisode est très intéressant car il réussit à trouver un point de vue intéressant sur la sur-abusée thématique des zombies. La nouveauté ? Montrer tout le film du point de vue subjectif d'un zombie ! Ou mieux, d'un pauvre type qui est attaqué par un zombie, meurt et ressuscite, se transformant en mort-vivant à son tour. Nous suivons le protagoniste dans son errance frénétique et dans sa chasse, qui culmine dans un vrai bain de sang. Innovant et amusant. Le troisième épisode, "Safe Haven", est le vrai coup de foudre du film. À la barre, nous avons l'Anglais Gareth Evans, passé à la rampe avec l'action indonésienne stupéfiante "The Raid", avec lequel cet épisode de "V/H/S 2" a plusieurs points de contact. Ici aussi, toute l'action se déroule dans un immeuble, mais cette fois nous n'avons pas un essaim de criminels experts en arts martiaux, mais une secte qui joue avec le Diable et qui couve en son sein des démons monstrueux et sanguinaires. Cet épisode, qui est aussi le plus long des quatre, a une action frénétique qui le rend bien reconnaissable à la main d'Evans et réussit à plonger dans le délire le plus total, avec des créatures monstrueuses et du splatter à des niveaux incroyablement élevés, avec des personnes qui explosent et des démembrements. À lui seul, il vaut tout le film ! Pour conclure, il y a un autre épisode digne de mention, "Slumber Party Alien Abduction", de Jason Eisener, le réalisateur du fou "Hobo with a Shotgun". Ici, l'horreur adolescente se combine avec le film sur les enlèvements aliens avec une rare efficacité qui mène à des moments vraiment riches en tension. Ici aussi, le rythme est frénétique, avec une première partie centrée sur les bêtises des jeunes qui font la fête à la maison et une seconde avec l'arrivée d'inquiétants "gris" qui sont annoncés par un bourdonnement désagréable. La nouveauté majeure réside dans le point de vue subjectif, qui est celui du petit chien de la maison, sur lequel l'un des garçons a monté une petite caméra au début du film. Pas mal du tout ! En somme, "V/H/S 2" est une suite de qualité, elle a le défaut de reproduire de la même manière les idées qui étaient déjà derrière le premier film, mais en même temps elle réussit à redresser la barre avec une plus grande cohésion et une qualité générale plus élevée des épisodes... puis il y a celui signé par Evans qui à lui seul rend ce film absolument recommandable. Ajoutez une demi-courge.
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Are you just about done with the anthology horror mini-revival? Sick to death of cinéma vérité? Well... I was about to say, "Move along, then; there's nothing for you here," but that wouldn't be fair on this movie OR you. If you're through with first-person perspective found-footage portmanteau horrors then fine, but just stay for one more. Please? Because it's a belter, this one.

Last year's V/H/S was IMO terrific, but it had its flaws. The wraparound story and the first story proper gave the movie a disturbing early feeling of misogyny thanks to both stories' protagonists having sexual gratification of one manner or another as their principal reason for filming their actions, the film's running time struggled to cope with six tales being told, and the shaky first-person cameras were the shakiest of shaky, nausea-inducing cameras in the history of the first-person perspective. Thankfully for the sequel, nobody's shooting footage for the sake of amateur pornography (an early tit-shot establishes our wraparound-segment protagonist as a private investigator, but that's it until some much lighter, more jocular sex-filming exchanges in the last segment, of which more later), V/H/S/2 is telling five stories in all rather than six (hopefully by V/H/S/3 they'll have learned a further lesson: The wraparound stories are completely redundant, so let's ditch 'em), and that extra time is put to good use, and the shaky-cam... it's still there of course - goes hand-in-hand with the territory - but it's just nowhere near as bad. For the most part.

So, to the stories themselves:

"Tape 49" - The wraparound segment, directed by Simon Barrett (who wrote the wraparound segment for V/H/S - "Tape 56" - as well as the segment "The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily When She Was Younger" for that earlier movie; he also wrote You're Next and the IMO excellent horror/western Dead Birds). Concerning a private eye and his partner on the trail of a missing student, they come across a house not unlike the one in the first picture, full of not much but stacks of old switched-on CRT televisions and VHS cassette players, and even larger stacks of VHS tapes themselves. They find a laptop with footage of the missing boy, sitting in that very room and explaining about how watching some of these VHS tapes in a certain order will... affect people. Quite how, I'll not say. Suffice to say though that while our private dick searches the house, his partner sits and watches the tapes (these are the four segments making up the main body of V/H/S/2), and trouble abounds. It's a big upgrade on the unlikeable wraparound from the first movie but it's still largely unnecessary and despite some good horror action towards the very end, it made little sense and was subsequently by virtue of its nature the weakest tale of the lot.

Segment 1. "Phase I Clinical Trials" - Directed by Adam Wingard (You're Next, V/H/S segment "Tape 56", The ABCs of Death segment "Q is for Quack"), this is a fairly straightforward and derivative piece (The Sixth Sense? The Eye?) about a guy who, following an eye operation to replace his blind right eye with an experimental electronic eye which for the purposes of data collection records everything it "sees" (a fairly ingenious if slightly laboured use of the first-person perspective I thought, also neatly sidestepping the thorny "Why are they still FILMING?!?" issue that besets all of these sorts of films), starts seeing - you guessed it - dead people. Nothing original to see here in terms of the story, but Wingard's ever-improving directional skills keep the tension levels up and interesting throughout. Not an especially strong start, but a decent start.

Segment 2. "A Ride in the Park" - Co-directed by the criminally-underrated Eduardo Sánchez (yes, him. Co-director of found-footage great-grandaddy The Blair Witch Project; also did the absolutely fantastic Altered, plus Seventh Moon and Lovely Molly) and his long-time producer buddy Gregg Hale, and co-written by Sánchez and his long-time writing partner Jamie Nash, this one came with heavy expectations and it didn't disappoint at all. A cracking flat-out zombie fest filmed almost entirely from the perspective of a cyclist's helmet-mounted Go-Pro camera. Our - hero? - Mike takes his bike out for a lovely early-morning spin through the park and is immediately attacked and bitten by a zombie, one of several ambling through these woods. He escapes, runs away, staggers, falters, drops to the floor and dies. Then he gets up. From there on in it's a zombie's-eye view of the carnage and gore, finishing with a flourish on a surprisingly touching note. For zombies, like. Excellent short story. Probably the best segment not only of this movie so far (it's certainly that) but of the V/H/S franchise so far.

Until...

Segment 3. "Safe Haven" - Another strong directorial collaboration here, this time between Gareth Huw Evans (The Raid) and Timo Tjahjanto (The ABCs of Death segment "L is for Libido"). Taking up 30 minutes of V/H/S/2's entire runtime (and worth every second), Safe haven concerns a documentary news crew who - using both conventional professional cameras and mics plus hidden "button"-cams - go to film the shenanigans at a remote Indonesian compound, in which is housed a "Heaven's Gate"-style Doomsday cult comprised of their enigmatic leader - The Father - his "family" of wives/lovers and (many) children plus other assorted cult members. It is implied that "The Father" is promoting and engaging in underage sex with some of the members, and it's this angle the news crew most want to pursue. They end up however with something very different.

Managing to look and feel like an exquisite blend of the co-directors' other works The Raid and "L is for Libido" with a good dollop of Doom 3 or some other survival horror game thrown in for good measure, this short represents the best thing that either V/H/S movie has offered us thus far. It's creepy, then it's tense, then it's frantic and as gory as gore gets (all justifiably and within the context of a good tale well told, I might add). If there's a teeny-tiny criticism it could be that a practical visual effect at the very very end of the short (you'll know it when you see it) doesn't quite work and against the otherwise staggering look of all that preceded it, it's quite jarring. However, I'm nitpicking. "Safe Haven" is a superior piece and with a few dollars thrown at it could make an excellent and terrifying expanded movie in its own right.

Segment 4. "Slumber Party Alien Abduction" - directed by Jason Eisener (Hobo With a Shotgun, The ABCs of Death segment "Y is for Youngbuck"). Eisener seems to be a bit of a "love him or loathe him" director. I WANT to like him but I find his output as frustrating as it is novel, and this is no exception. Essentially, a bunch of kids of varying ages have free reign over their lakeside house, and fill their time with happy, video-based tomfoolery including strapping a camera to their dog to see what he films, blasting one another with urine-filled water guns and busting in on one anothers' "intimate" time, be that one of the girls with her boyfriend or one of the doofus young teenagers with his hand, a porno and some time to kill. So far, so goofy. Until a violent attack by a band of hostile classic "Grey" aliens kicks off. It's a good idea and the story itself is fine, but this is the one short in the pack that continues to suffer badly from the first movie's shaky-cam syndrome. Once the action starts, you'll struggle to see what's happening. Good stuff, but frustrating. And coming as it does after two truly excellent segments, just a trifle deflating.

So, segments 1 and 4 are of a standard comparable to the first movie, the wraparound piece is an improvement, but the middle two shorts are worth the ticket money on their own and elevate V/H/S/2 above its older sibling and above much of today's horror fare in general. Well recommended.

Gimly

Gimly

5 /10

In the past I have only ever reviewed anthology films as a whole, and by-and-large that's probably what I'll go back to doing in the future, but having just watched the last three quarters of the original V/H/S, then V/H/S/2 and V/H/S: Viral all in one sitting, it all sort of bleeds together and I mostly can't remember which one belongs where, so at least for now, I'm gonna try giving some very, very short reviews for each segment, rather than the overall films.

Tape 49: The framing device. These were always the silliest part of the franchise. It doesn't work very well as a jumping off point, and it doesn't work at all as a self-contained narrative.

Phase I Clinical Trials: Much better stuff from Adam Wingard, has some of the intensity found in the first V/H/S. One of the shorts I think would best translate to a full feature. Could benefit from some better acting though (could be said of all the segments, and isn't a deal breaker for me).

A Ride in the Park: Really just one thing going on here, but that's fine for a short film that's just one part of an anthology. A first-person zombie movie shot from the perspective of the zombie is a pretty dope idea. Could have commited to the formula harder, preferably, but the way it is shot I guess makes sense in terms of the larger V/H/S narrative.

Safe Haven: The best of what V/H/S/2 has on offer. Not perfect, and unexpectedly made me bring out my glasses to read the subtitles, which I guess arguably clashes with not only the other segments but indeed the "Found Footage" idea overall. Still, solid entry.

Slumber Party Alien Abduction: Probably the weakest. Weird choice to go out on. Tries to have fun but unfortunately just doesn't have the time to carry that idea to fruition before the desperate scramble for the "horror" in this found footage horror short.

Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole.

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