All 7 V/H/S Movies, Ranked From Worst To Best - SlashFilm
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The V/H/S films have been thrilling and disgusting horror fans for over a decade, but which of the movies is the best? Here's our full ranking.

Any horror franchise that sticks around for more than a handful of entries becomes an institution by default. And few long-running horror franchises have provided genre fans with such a rollercoaster as “V/H/S,” perhaps because each movie in the series feels like an unpredictable theme park ride in its own sick, twisted, ambitious way.

The first “V/H/S” film, released in 2012, laid out the endlessly adaptable format: a horror anthology consisting of “found footage” shorts, each of them directed by a different filmmaker, with only a thin (if that) thread connecting them all. Really, each “V/H/S” segment is an excuse for a director to cut loose, to run wild, and to tell a brisk, violent, sometimes funny and sometimes disturbing tale of terror. The only real rule is that it has to be found footage, but even that is malleable. Stories in the series are told from camcorders, GoPros, security cameras, smartphones, and so much more. The lack of rules, and the length of leash given to the filmmakers, means that each movie (even the weaker ones) have absurd highs are that worth experiencing.

With the series currently numbering seven entries (the sci-fi horror-themed entry “V/H/S/Beyond” is now streaming on Shudder), the /Film team put their heads together to rank this sometimes inconsistent but always entertaining film series from worst to best. And that was a tough thing to figure out, because yes, even the worst “V/H/S” movie has at least one killer segment that makes you wonder “Wait, should this one be one spot higher on the list?”

You can listen to the creation of this list on this episode of the /Film Daily podcast:

  1. V/H/S/2 (2013)
  2. V/H/S/94 (2021)
  3. V/H/S/Beyond (2024)
  4. V/H/S (2012)
  5. V/H/S/99 (2022)
  6. V/H/S/85 (2023)
  7. V/H/S: Viral (2014)
  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝OPMAEnglish
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    16 hours ago

    As they say, ranking anthology films is hard but that’s a decent stab at it and I agree with them on the top slot for the same reason:

    There’s not a weak installment in the bunch (although I’d argue there’s never actually been a “bad” segment across the franchise, merely ones that aren’t as knock-out great as some of the others) but what makes “V/H/S/2” so special is the inclusion of Tjahjanto and Evans’ “Safe Haven,” which is for my money, the greatest horror short film in existence.

    Although possibly not the greatest, it’s definitely up there and Gareth Evans should definitely do more horror, perhaps some martial arts horror too.