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  Review by 𝒜𝓂𝒶𝓃𝒹𝒶 𝒦. ★★★ 17

  V/H/S/99 Is the latest addition to the found footage horror omnibus franchise, and it mostly works.

  This sub-genre has been slowly evolving since it’s inception and here it traverses more into the comedy realm.  This time it nixes a through narrative for a handful of stop motion segments that makes it feel like your watching Adult Swim.  

  Revenge seems to be the theme in this outing and while there are always standouts it’s also very uneven. A little more time and care put into this would have went a long way in strengthening the foundation.

  Comedy and Horror are like peanut butter and chocolate, both great on their own but when combined magic happens.  While this isn’t quite magic, there is enough here that will surely entertain.

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  Review by Andy Crump ★★★½ 7

  bad news, this movie doesn’t make a lick of sense if you haven’t seen the other 98
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  (Okay, the movie’s out now, so I’m amending this goofy-ass dad joke to say: solid entry. The bad entries aren’t all that bad; they’re just Flying Lotus-y, which is to say Incredibly Fucking Weird and Sort Of Incoherent. That’s okay though; this series should be allowed the freedom to let artists go cuckoo bananas.

  Conclusion: Maggie Levin and the couples Winter undefeated, corpse munching and demon punching.)

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  Review by nick ★ 12

  Can you imagine a horror anthology where not even one segment is good? V/H/S/99 is so atrocious it makes Viral feel like an instant horror classic. If V/H/S/94 still shows hope, 99 proves it's really time to retire the franchise.

  V/H/S/99 consists of 5 stories that bomb one after another, with only glimpses of the past glory.

  -Shredding: underwhelming starter, where a banal premise of haunted house leads to nothing substantial. At least the music rocks.

  -Suicide Bid: another overdone premise with no redeeming quality and an atrocious ending.

  -Ozzy's Dungeon: starts with huge potentials, then proceeds to nothingness, then ends with utter confusion. At least the social commentary is there.

  -The Gawkers: too much buildup leads to an unmatched result. The potential is there.

  -To Hell And Back: Vanessa & Joseph Winter must have been so caught up with Deadstream that they didn't spend nearly enough time perfecting the lazy script here.

  Just avoid this one.

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  Review by Dot . 4

  If they make a VHS movie every year I will be a very happy person

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  Review by CinemaVoid 🏴‍☠️ ★½ 4

  If you think about it, it’s pretty obvious why each V/H/S/ movie is worse than the last. When videotapes are copied, each copy loses quality.

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  Review by 𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐚 ★★½ 3

  Thankfully nowhere near as bad as V/H/S: Viral, mostly because of the toy soldiers, but I think it's time to stop now before it's too late.

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  Review by 1313: Tony the Terror🌨️ ★★★½ 13

  I really need to rewatch these to fully compare them, but I feel like this is about on par with the last entry.

  It’s not scary in the absolute slightest, but it’s very fun and the late 90’s vibes are pretty spot on with the exception of Ozzy’s Dungeon, which was basically a bad acid trip version of Nickelodeon’s Legends of the Hidden Temple and would have been better suited to the ‘94 installment. Come on you guys, we had phased out of kids challenge game shows by ‘99. Silly.

  The final episode, To Hell and Back, from the directors of Deadstream, was definitely my favorite. I think we need a full movie starring Mabel to be honest!

  It doesn’t…

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  Review by Zay ★★★★ 3

  The latest installment of the V/H/S found footage anthology series takes us to 1999. There's heavy metal zombies, coffin traps, nickelodeon-esque dungeon games, revenge, big bad momma mayhem, face melting, lol moments, blood n guts, sleaze n cheese, hellish wastelands, demons, and a silly stop motion animation wraparound(ish) segment.

  I enjoyed all of the segments, some more than others as with any anthology. This is my order from fave to least fave...

  1. To Hell and Back(Joseph & Vanessa Winter)
  2. Ozzy's Dungeon(Flying Lotus)
  3. The Gawkers(Tyler MacIntyre)
  4. Suicide Bin(Johannes Robert)
  5. Shredding(Maggie Levin)

  With the To Hell and Back segment as well as recently released feature length Deadstream, Joseph & Vanessa Winter are a duo I'm definitely looking forward to seeing more from!

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  Review by Joe Lynch ★★★ 2

  I truly love how the V/H/S series has been still kicking and allowing genre artists unleash a little. 
  My favorites in this one were Roberts “Suicide Bid” (genuinely scary), Macintyre’s  “The Gawkers” (felt the most real to the period) & The Winters’s “To Hell And Back” (most inventive and funny) but all of them had something fun and fucked up to chew on.
  Hope this series goes in until they’ve exhausted every year from 1980 to 2000.

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  Review by anna nomaly ★★★½ 1

  Folklore and groupthink somewhat inevitably converge at the dawn of a new millennium. This batch of stories is consistently fun, lovingly dressed for maximum ‘90s nostalgia, but Flying Lotus’ “Ozzy’s Dungeon” is easily the masterpiece, scary and satirical and surprising in all the best ways. I could get used to watching a new V/H/S every year.

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  Review by Nick Rynott ★½ 1

  I was expecting a mixed bag, not an empty one.

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  Review by Trevor Henderson ★★★½ 2

  Doesn’t quite reach the heights of the last one, but there’s still some great stuff here! I especially liked Johannes Roberts sorority dare nightmare, Flying Lotus’s game show gross out and Maggie Levin’s riot grrl corpse munching. Hope there’s another one!