Pretty funny Indiewire hysteria over A) fussy old Rex Reed bothering to review the omnibus horror picture “V/H/S 2”, B) walking out after 20 minutes of this spotty, segmented collection (better at the end) and C) daring to admit it.

Not sure why he bothered. I had to go to some trouble to get to see it. Maybe the distributor begged him.

He begins like this, pitching it as an “indescribably gory, violent, plotless and deranged purloin of every horror movie ever made by amateurs with a wobbly, nauseating handheld camera, seven unknown directors hell-bent on remaining that way.”

He missed, as I said, the better stuff. But after 20, even 30 minutes, the review’s not wholly inaccurate. And it’s funny. To some.

He missed the good stuff, the shorts that could easily turn into features. And there’s the crime. You’re allowed to dismiss a movie you don’t like and hate, even in concept. But to know what you’re talking about, to be allowed to dismiss it, you have to WATCH the whole movie.  Even if it never gets better.  Which, as I said in my review, this one does.