V/H/S 2 (2103)

I wasn't a fan of V/H/S, what with ninety per cent of everyone in it being an unsympathetic character, so I wasn't all that excited to see a second one.  Thankfully the characters aren't people that you wish would die, although it wouldn't be a horror movie without some of them doing something stupid.

The least likable characters in this one are in the wrap around which introduces each tape.  A detective and his girlfriend are hired to find a missing college student.  They break into the students house while filming using a camera with a spot light which makes me wonder how no one noticed them crawling in through the window.

Once inside the small house, they continue to use the spot light. They locate a living room with multiple TVs showing static, a laptop, a VHS tape player, and tons of VHS tapes.  Hey, lets see what's on them. There may be a clue.  Well, I guess that's possible, but does that mean you have to watch the whole tape, get a nose bleed, get left alone in the house while your boyfriend goes to the drug store, and not realize that being alone in someone elses house is a very, very bad idea? Of course it does since something awful has to occur to these characters and it's a stupid thing to do.

Here is a summary of the tapes they pop in to watch:

1. A man gets an experimental eye implant which, in the interest of science, records everything he sees.  After he goes home - to a fancy schmancy house which makes me wonder why he needs to be involved in this experiment - he starts seeing dead people in the house. Then a girl he saw at the hospital shows up and says she can tell him what's going on.  The whole thing is presented as if video from his eye, and the ghosts are pretty creepy.
2. A mountain bike rider finds an injured woman in the woods, is distracted by some people shambling towards him, and when he turns his attention back to the woman, she's become a zombie.  This is told via footage from the riders helmet cam.
3. The most original of all the films, this one is the best of the lot.  A film crew is pursing permission from a local cult leader to visit the cults compound. When the leader surprisingly agrees ,they arrive at the isolated compound and find the place decorated with little Blair Witch type figures.  As could be imagined, it is a bad idea to voluntarily go into the compound of a cult leader where  everyone is under his control.  
4. Kids having a sleep over harass their older sister and her friends. Then strange things start happening and the alien abductions start.