V/H/S Halloween

The horror anthology is back with an obvious theme. Sadly it's got the usual problems lots of them suffer from. Most of the films are just too long and substitute the characters, who are usually gratingly irritating, running around shrieking for material. It's almost like they had a minimum running time brief and couldn't otherwise fill it.

The linking piece, "Diet Phantasma", is fun but a lot of the time I found myself looking at my phone in a "are we there yet" way. The surreal candy based piece "Fun Size" is the only one that's inventive. Partying twentysomethings breaking into the the wrong spooky location in "Ut Supra Sic Infra" is played most serious of the lot, to its benefit, and "Home Haunt" makes the most of the theme but "Coochie Coochie Coo" and "Kidprint" are tiresome as fuck and kind of offensive.

Is not the worst of the V/H/S anthologies but it's close to it 4/10.