V/H/S/2 may be the best entry in the V/H/S franchise. The premise of the first two V/H/S movies is the same. V/H/S franchise is a horror anthology film in the found footage genre with an overarching frame narrative. In V/H/S/2, the overarching frame narrative provides a lot more explanation as to what is going on in the franchise, and the characters are far more sympathetic. A detective couple enters a missing student’s house and watches several of his VHS tapes and the student’s video diaries for clues as to what happened to him. The audience sees the content of the VHS tapes as the detectives watch them. The video quality in V/H/S/2 is way better than the first, but the stories vary wildly in quality. The best story is Safe Haven, a 60 Minutes like expose of life in a cult that goes splendidly and epically wrong. Safe Haven could have been a feature movie on its own, and the rest of the stories are tedious by juxtaposition. When the other stories ended, I was relieved since there really wasn’t any further that the story could go once the supernatural premise is revealed. A dog is involved in the last one, which actually made me sad, and I’m calling doggy DCF on the parents for leaving the dog with those kids in the first place. Poor puppy. Though V/H/S/2 is as bleak as its predecessor, I was less celebratory when the characters met their end. If you liked V/H/S or anthology horror tv shows like The Twilight Zone, then give V/H/S/2 a glance, especially for a pretty excellent twist on the Biblical/Chthulu apocalypse.