From Newsgroup: rec.arts.tv
On 7/7/26 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
What did you watch?
WC soccer - Bad results all around. :(
soaps: B&B - These people are so insufferable, I will probably stop
watching B&B again. Liam is the only voice of reason here. And Will
should be glad to be rid of Electra - what an insufferable,
self-centered whiny b*tch!!
DOOL - Sarah is tipped off about Holly's arsenic poisoning, which
turns out to be Johnny being coerced into doing it by EJ. Gwen confronts Kristen about being a lying, duplicitous bitch - Are they setting up a
"Who killed Kristen?!" mystery here?
GH - John Oliver... :/ ...as "Z" does tell Carly to pound sand about Josslyn and the WSB. Josslyn and Vaughn are finally reunited, and it's disappointing because all we get out of them is the equivalent of "C'est
la vie!" (and Vaughn is leaving again, this time surely for good). :/
Britt is finally clued into the fact that she never really had
Huntington's and is distraught. Lucas also realizes that this means
Marco died for nothing. In a couple of puke-worthy displays, Rocco
forgives Dante [puke!], and Danny acts like a lil' bitch to Rocco (he
also rats out Rocco's shooting of Cullum to Jack Brennan). And Carly is reunited with Valentin at the end, as a stunned Sonny, Lulu and
Charlotte look on.
Then, I decided to pick up a horror anthology movie series that I had
only seen the first three entries of previously:
V/H/S 94 (AMC+/Shudder) - I suspect Arthur wouldn't like this film! as
it's hella gory and almost operates as a "found footage" flick!
After the first three V/H/S flicks (2012-2014), the "V/H/S" horror anthology film series lay dormant for years until circa COVID when
Shudder (Nobody gets Shudder!!) picked it up and revived the series.
"V/H/S 94" is the first of Shudder's editions in the series, and the fourth film overall (not counting the "spin-off" film "Siren" from 2016
(and which I don't think I have seen).
Anyway, even with Shudder taking over the series, it looks like it
hasn't changed from the format of the original 3 films. Basically, the
V/H/S series takes horror "short films" and combines them together into
an anthology horror film with the use of one additional short film
acting as the "framing device". One of the things I like about this is
that usually one of the short films is "foreign" (IOW, not "American" or English language), so you get to see horror from a foreign perspective
as well. "V/H/S 94" operates the same way.
The "frame" in this one is just OK, and is not as good as the ones
in the first three films (esp. "V/H/S: Viral") - we are back to the VHS worshipping(?!) cult as a SWAT team storms a warehouse where the cult
was last operating. Of course, there's a "twist" at the end, though I
can't say it's a very good one.
Of the other individual short films/segments, the first one (it
should be titled "Hail Raatma!"!) was by far the best one (which I think
also matches the pattern of the earlier "V/H/S" flicks as well) - this
one stars one of my personal faces, Canadian actress Anna Hopkins,
playing a reporter who is ordered by her TV station to take her
cameraman and herself into the sewers to track down the legend of a "Rat
Man". This one ends up pretty bonkers, but has a primo ending.
The second segment is perfunctory (with a disappointing ending), and
the fourth segment I mostly didn't like (though it rallies some with its ending).
But the third segment was the foreign one (this time, from
Indonesia) and I quite liked its "mad scientist" storyline.
So I can't really say that "V/H/S 94" is any better or worse than
the previous three films. But, overall, I enjoy this horror anthology
film series, and hope to watch the fifth film, "V/H/S 99", tonight.
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