Not particularly — V/H/S's appeal is atmospheric or thematic rather than overtly scary. As a body horror film, it scored 3.0/10 for fear, 7.0/10 for atmosphere, and 7.1/10 overall on Watch Darkly's curator scale across 1 rating.

How many jump scares are in V/H/S?

V/H/S has 7 jump scares, based on Watch Darkly's per-film jump-scare count.

What are some films like V/H/S?

Films similar to V/H/S on Watch Darkly include The Bay (2012), Predator (1987), ノロイ (2005) — selected by cosine similarity on the curator scoring across fear, gore, atmosphere, and overall quality.

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body-horror

V/H/S

2012 · R · 1h 56m

This collection is killer.

When a group of misfits is hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire one rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they had bargained for.

Plot summary via TMDB

Curator Score

7.1

Overall

Based on 1 curator rating

Anchored by atmosphere.

Jump scares

V/H/S has 7 jump scares. Compare counts

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7.1Overall

Fear3.0

Gore6.0

Atmosphere7.0

Intensity6.0

Genres

horrorthriller

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Details

Budget$242,000

Box office$100,345

Directed by

David Bruckner, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Justin Martinez, Adam Wingard, Chad Villella, Tyler Gillett, Joe Swanberg, Glenn McQuaid, Ti West

Written by

Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Ti West, David Bruckner, Nicholas Tecosky, Simon Barrett, Chad Villella, Glenn McQuaid, Tyler Gillett, Justin Martinez

Cinematography

Adam Wingard, Eric Branco, Tyler Gillett, Michael J. Wilson, Victoria K. Warren, Justin Martinez, Andrew Droz Palermo

Starring

Calvin Lee Reeder as Gary (segment "Tape 56") · Lane Hughes as Zak (segment "Tape 56") · Kentucker Audley as Rox (segment "Tape 56") · Adam Wingard as Brad (segment "Tape 56") · Simon Barrett as Steve (segment "Tape 56") · Andrew Droz Palermo as Fifth Thug (segment "Tape 56") · Joe Swanberg as Sam (segment "Second Honeymoon") · Sophia Takal as Stephanie (segment "Second Honeymoon")

Production

8383 Productions, Bloody Disgusting, The Collective