DVD: V/H/S/2 (dirs: Gareth Evans, Eduardo Sanchez et al, 2013)

"Are you seeing weird stuff?  Like people who look dead?"

This sequel multi-story tale is stronger than the original collection.  The framing story, whilst hardly credible or weighty, works more effectively than the first film's haphazard equivalent, and the tales themselves are more watchable and better written/acted overall.  The best of the bunch is Gareth Evans's tale of a literal descent into cult Hell, the increasingly madness well realised on the screen in both style and content.  There is a lot of surprisingly effective P.O.V work across the stories, notably the zombies-in-the-park segment, but the low-fi VHS-stylings really add little overall.  As a concept, the modern-day portmanteau approach gives much-needed variety of content, but sharper writing and better execution would still benefit this burgeoning franchise.