netninja I honestly don't even know where to begin. This movie was so terrible that it almost made my face bleed. Take a moment to think about what a movie is made up of...now imagine all those things being put together by a room full of adolescent chimps. Everything from the horrible camera work to the lousy acting was laughable at best, at least until you begin to think about how this movie is the 3rd installment to a great series. Then you pretty much just want to cry.Remember how the first two movies were scary and had an aura of creepiness and thrill? Yea me too but in "Viral" there isn't a shred of any type of creepy, scary, or thrill. It took me 4 attempts, over the course of a year, to finally sit down and subject myself to this poor excuse of a movie. Sure it had the series of short stories that VHS is famous for but the similarities to the other movies stops there.An incoherent main story line coupled with poorly written short stories accomplish one thing very well...they give you a glimpse into what must be running through a drug addict's head just after his first hit of the pipe. I could go on and on about how terrible this movie was but I don't feel like any amount of words could describe how awful "VIRAL" was. So without any further ranting, please do yourself a great service of NOT WATCHING this movie like I did. I can guarantee that if you do, your gonna be immensely disappointed that " Viral" made it as the 3rd movie in the VHS trilogy.Oh and just in case I wasn't clear before, DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE. IT IS GARBAGE FROM Beginning TO END.

TdSmth5 V/H/S: Viral is a departure from the previous entries. We don't get the usual goofs looking through old VHS tapes. However the story that frames the movie ("Vicious Circles") doesn't make much sense. It involves a young couple. The guy decides to film everything, mainly his pretty girlfriend. When one of those LA car chases takes place in his neighborhood he sees his chance to film it and upload it so it'll go viral. Off he goes on his bike with cameras attached to his helmet. The chase follows a creepy old ice cream van that runs over people. For some reason the guy's cell phone mysteriously shows videos of his girl. Suddenly she appears on the street and vanishes as the van drives by.Then we move to the first independent segment--"Dante the Great." One day Dante discovers a cape which has powers. It's like it is a portal to a different dimension. So he starts doing magic with it and becomes famous. But the cops are on his tail because his assistants keep disappearing. It turns out the cape demands blood. But his new assistant has plans of her own.We go back to "Vicious Circles" for some more bike riding after the van/girl. Someone in the back of the van grabs another biker who gets dragged to pieces."Parallel Monsters" is about a Spanish guy who invents some large machine. When he turns it on and opens the door, it looks like on the other side is his mirror image. Another guy who looks just like him, holding a camera, and amazed at the machine. But it's not a mirror image. It's a parallel but inverted universe. They decide to go through the portal for every guy to explore the other guy's life. Their homes are identical except for a photo on a wall. One guy has a picture of him and his wife, the other a picture of a pentagram and candles. The first guy meets the other guy's hot wife. Apparently they were about to do something. In the middle of the living room is some bloody bag and two guys in underwear show up. When they ask the guy to go ahead and be the first, he hesitates so the other guys leave. The wife insists puzzled, so he leaves and runs into the two guys outside who go after him and suddenly their heads turn to light and develop creepy voices. When they take off their underwear it isn't pretty. Meanwhile guy #2 goes to the bedroom to see the other guy's wife who's sleeping, he too has something in his pants. Eventually they cross the portals again, but the first guy's wife isn't happy.The next segment "Bonestorm" features a bunch of dumb dope-head skaters who decide to drive to Tijuana. They buy firecrackers and as they walk/skate trough some riverbed run into some strange girl, see a corpse, an altar, a pentagram. The skate all over that stuff. Then one guy falls and bleeds over the pentagram. Now guys in hoods and corpsepaint appear and chant and slowly attack the kids who defend themselves with a gun, their skateboards, and the firecrackers, but the hooded guys buy now have turned into skeletons and still go after them.In the end the kid on the bike catches up with the van that has stopped. He gets inside and there are countless old TV sets. Suddenly his girl appears on screen and asks him to upload his videos. He declines so she starts hurting herself until he agrees.I didn't get to see "Gorgeous Vortex" that is included on DVD. Unfortunately this movie is not coherent enough. "Vicious Circles" doesn't amount to anything. Which is surprising given that Sarmiento has done some great things in the past. "Dante the Great" is a great story. Very entertaining and unique."Parallel Monsters" had a lot of promise but something doesn't satisfy. I don't know why they had to film this in Spain. It's still a good segment though."Bonestorm" is hampered by some real nasty characters that you can't care for. And it's also poorly filmed with cameras attached to the kids' helmets--pointing at their faces for some reason and that makes up most of the footage.I don't know if Gorgeous Vortex would have improved things. As it is, the arrangement of the stories doesn't help. Had they started with Dante and ended with Parallel perhaps I would have a better perception of VHS: Viral. But the ending as it is doesn't leave you with a good impression. At least we get sharp images and only a bit of unnecessary greenvision. I don't see a need for a further entry to the series.

benjameso32 If there was an award for b grade horror movies then this would win the Oscar for worst movie. The third in the series can easily be classed as the worst with horror scenes that look as a teenager has written and directed them this movie will never be classed along the lines of saw and hostel. VHS viral however does follow the originals by splitting the movie in to 4 small mini movies. This gives each a distinct advantage making the film worse then it should be with the hand held cameras and go pros being used. Like a similar b grade horror film in clover field. While the film does a few good points that are so we its not worth watching. If your a lover of b grades and the series then go ahead and watch.

Pasta Salad I really enjoyed the first two films. A lot. I went into this expecting to be mildly entertained but I was horribly wrong. It felt like an R rated feature length episode of "Are You Afraid of the Dark".I won't break it down into great detail. Mostly because it doesn't really deserve that level of attention. It doesn't even deserve this review but the masses must be warned.It was so bad.I won't spoil it but there was a part about magician cloak battles with horrible effects. There was a wraparound that was okay...ish.Then the ending credits came. Usually the best part of a horrible movie. Where you can let out a sigh of relief that all of it is finally over. But not VHS Viral. It bends you over & kicks you one last time. ( I had a much better analogy but I feel like it would be inappropriate by IMDb standards ) The fans of the previous films would probably still be sticking it out with this film, through it's entirety because they're waiting for the signature Death Set credits sequence. BOOM! Wrong baby! You get weird techno dance tracks to a nauseating light show.& that was VHS Viral. Writing this review has reminded me so much of how I wasted an hour & a half of my life on it, that I'm now changing my rating from 2 to 1.Don't watch this... ABCs of Death 2 was way better.