Again this one's a mixed bag of shakycam dross only really livened up by Timo Tjahjanto's "Safe Haven" where a group of journalists go to the compound run by a cult intending to confront them but end up experiencing the great day the cult have been waiting for.
Even this segment massively outstays its welcome when general creepiness gives way to absolute mayhem that as much it's bloodily inventive just goes on too long.
Loud, irritating trash 4/10.
However the linking stuff is a kind of nonsensical Police chase with an ice cream truck that also causes "viral violence" or something harking back to the cursed footage ideas we've had before but it's just laboured beyond belief.
Then there's the SK8R Boys one which is just trash, where did this idea even come from it's like it was created because the director knew people who could skateboard.
Not great 5/10.
Best of the bunch: "Ozzy's Dungeon" about a kids' TV show, one of those ones involving "gunge", which almost nobody ever wins so they can avoid giving away the prize.
Overall a solid 6/10 but you'd need to be in the mood for silliness as it's perhaps a bit more humorous than the other instalments, especially the final section: " To Hell and back again".
There's only one noticeably weak section: "God of Death" and the links actually work. These are done like a TV documentary that tells of a doomed experiment with a timescale in the weeks/months where sometimes they've simply chopped up a something that could have been one of the main sections.
It's all still quite schlocky horror but the final section "Dreamkill" could almost be an 80s movie in its own right, 8/10 recommended for horror fans.
Still saddled with the inherent problems of anthologies at least this time we get four quite distinct sections each that work in their own right and the best of them is Timo Tjahjanto's "The Subject" which is a really filthy evil scientist story.
Again the linking items are weak, unable to sustain much of a story and I'd really prefer it to just present the main sections without this but hey that's an anthology thing and they're going with it. Still only really 6/10 though but at least this isn't all letchy like the first.
I can see what they were trying for but most of the sections were just awful: loud broskis hooting and hollering and letching at women until some slasher movie type violence happens.
Notable for its weirdness is "The sick thing that happened to Emily when she was younger" which I needed to read the synopsis for to actually follow but is again a bit letchy and misogynistic. Least unpleasant is "10/31/99" where a bunch of loud guys (of course) are looking for a Halloween party but end up at something else entirely. The entry from Ti West, "Second Honeymoon", is interesting but far far too long to get to where its going and again very "women are evil".
Don't bother 4/10. Do I bother with any of the others? The shakycam alone is a massive turnoff and I'm usually quite tolerant of it but the whole tone of this was cynically misogynistic.