Although this franchise has been around for a bit, I hadn't seen any of the three movies until very recently. The whole "found footage" genre has never really appealed to me, and I knew these movies to be a long those lines. I saw this on Netflix the other day, and although I hadn't seen the first two movies, I decided to watch this third installment anyway. This movie consists of four short stories, with a fifth serving as a wrap around to the whole thing. As it is with most anthology movies, the stories are either hit or miss. My favorite one happens to be the first story, which is the story of a magician who becomes overcome by the dark side of his profession. Usually in low budget movies such as this, they make up for that fact by healing on loads of gore. While this.movie does indeed have some.of the wet red stuff, its used sparingly and rarely. While definitely not q classic or staple of the horror genre, this movie is alright. I probably wouldn't watch it again though, and I don't know if I'll watch the first two in the series having seen this.

I kind of like found footage movies. Granted, any idiot with a bad quality camera (and there are plenty of both) can release more trash to the world, and so the genre is full of rubbish, although, let's be honest, movies with ridiculous high budgets are also trash, mostly. Anyway, I've followed the VHS series and the franchise just gets worse with every new movie. The first VHS back in 2012 was some sort of new concept, and it was somehow interesting. The second followed the same guidelines, although it was worse than its predecessor, in all aspects. Some stories were laughable and the CGI was going down. Viral is just too bad. The acting is poor beyond words, particularly in the first/main plot (that girl, Iris, jeeeesus. Go back to acting school, will ya?), the CGI is shareware quality and the story is way too stupid. Likewise, the magician part is a show of (bad) amateur acting and it fails in the same points as the main one, basically. I'd say that the Spanish part is actually not bad, original and interesting enough, plus the acting is OK (in all fairness, both the actress and actor worked in a good few movies before). This Spanish section is the only reason why this is getting 2 stars rather than 1. Still, it doesn't redeem the rest of Viral; it'd have been better off as a separate short movie rather than being included here. The skaters' story is not 100% bad, but it is too long for its repetitiveness and the boys are annoying. The rest of the movie is pure garbage.This is not even found footage anymore. That feeling is all but gone, even when they follow the "homemade" concept in most of the movie.Another particularity is that, even though the sexual innuendo is still present, it has been dramatically reduced and, contrary to the nudity festival that were the previous films, there're no really breasts, vaginas or penises in the movie. Not saying that this is bad, or good, simply stating a fact.Overall, a completely missable movie, even if you liked the previous ones.Oh, and using Beethoven's 9th Symphony doesn't make it any better.

I don't understand why so many people hate this movie so much. While not as good as the first two installments in the series, I still found V/H/S: VIRAL to be a pretty creative and entertaining movie. Admittedly, the plot of the wrap-around that surrounds the individual segments is really confusing, but it's still fun to watch. One thing that bothers me a little is that the movie didn't really have that one killer segment that really stood out like the first two movies had: There was the creepy "Amateur Night" in V/H/S and the totally insane "Safe Haven" in V/H/S 2. There's no such show-stopper in V/H/S: VIRAL. Nevertheless, I think all the segments were well-made and entertaining. Not really creepy or scary like some segments from the first two movies, but I enjoyed V/H/S: VIRAL nonetheless. My guess is that many people don't like this movie because it lacks the concept of the individual short movies being watched on a VCR as it was the case in the first two movies. I don't really mind that.

I LOVE the VHS series. I've seen em all at least twice. I do not understand why this one got such bad ratings from everyone. If you like the other movies in this series, you must watch this. It really is the most perfect, logical, ending (or maybe not ending) to the series. From a writing stand point, they take the main story arc presented in the first films and extend it to it's most horrific "what if" scenario. Beautiful, just beautiful.And the "tapes" in this one are pretty awesome. Love the mixture of sci-fi and horror in the one story. You'll know which one when you watch.