V/H/S/94 (2021)
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A series of terrifying found-footage segments are linked together by a chilling frame narrative involving a SWAT team raiding a warehouse.
The story
V/H/S/94 is presented as an anthology of four short horror films built into a frame narrative that acts as its own fifth short. The story begins with a SWAT team—Slater, Oursler, Sprayberry, Spivey, Petro, and Nash—along with their cameraman Gary, raiding a warehouse believed to be a drug bust. Moments before their arrival, a woman in white inhales a vapor from a substance on her hands. As the team enters, they discover a jet, a distorted voice asking them to 'track the signal', and several rooms containing televisions displaying static and corpses with gouged-out eyes.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
The film is an anthology of four shorts linked by a frame narrative. In 'Holy Hell', a SWAT team raids a warehouse, finding corpses and a mysterious signal. The first interlude leads to 'Storm Drain', where reporter Holly Marciano and cameraman Jeff investigate the 'Rat Man' urban legend in a sewer. They are captured by a cult, and Jeff is burned to death by a creature called 'Raatma' while Holly is brainwashed. The second interlude leads to 'The Empty Wake', where funeral worker Hailey discovers a corpse in a coffin is moving. The corpse, Andrew, attacks her after his head is removed, and both are killed by a tornado, leaving a possessed Hailey to crawl away. The third interlude leads to 'The Subject', where a man with robotic legs is experimented on by scientist James Suhendra. A woman, S.A., is turned into a cyborg. During a raid, S.A. escapes with the help of a cameraman, Jono, while a robot named Subject 98 slaughters the soldiers. The final interlude leads to 'Terror', where a white supremacist group tries to use a vampire's blood as a bomb. The vampire eventually kills the group and explodes in the sunlight. In the epilogue, it is revealed that Nash and Petro are cult members who kidnapped Spivey and killed the rest of the SWAT team to create a new VHS tape, with Slater being the final victim.
- First release year
- 2021
- Runtime (minutes)
- 104
- Production countries
- United States
- Original languages
- English; Indonesian
- Directors
- Jennifer Reeder; Chloe Okuno; Simon Barrett; Timo Tjahjanto; Ryan Prows; Steven Kostanski
- Writers
- David Bruckner · writer; Brad Miska · writer
- Cast and characters
- Kimmy Choi · Petro; Nicolette Pearse · Nash; Thomas Mitchell · Sprayberry; Dru Viergever · Slater; Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll · Spivey; Dax Ravina · Oursler; Kevin P. Gabel · Cameraman Gary; William Jordan · Tom Tucker; Anna Hopkins · Holly Marciano; Christian Potenza · Cameraman Jeff; Brian Paul · Pastor; Tim Campbell · TV Anchor Mark
- Genres
- found footage; horror; anthology; science fiction; splatter; supernatural; vampire; zombie
- Themes
- cults; body horror; technological decay; urban legends; surveillance
- Tone and mood
- gritty; unhinged; macabre; dark comedy
- Premise and plot tags
- anthology; found footage; prequel; sequel; body horror; monster movie
- Franchise connections
- V/H/S
- Reception
- The film received generally favorable reviews, with critics praising its gritty aesthetic, creature and make-up effects, and its embrace of 1990s video culture. It was noted for its balance of technical artistry and funhouse fright, though some critics found the wraparound story to be weak and others felt the pacing was uneven.
- Reported review scores
- Metacritic · score: 63 · scale: 100
- Production trivia
- It was the first film in the franchise to be released on Shudder.; The filmmakers shot their segments at 29.97 frames per second to emulate the shot-on-video aesthetic.
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