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‘V/H/S/Beyond’ Review: Found-Footage Franchise Takes a Tentative Step Toward Sci-Fi
The seventh entry in Shudder’s horror anthology series provides high energy but not much else in five tales vaguely connected by a UFO theme.
The wraparound device, directed by Canadian documentarian Jay Cheel, mingles interviews with real-life UFO enthusiasts and skeptics, also throwing in passing mentions of highlights in the history of alleged abductions, plus clips from popular representations (including vintage drive-in camp “Earth vs. the Flying Saucers”). Virit Pal’s “Dream Girl” has two paparazzi (Syandeep Sengupta and Rohan Joshi) sneaking onto a Mumbai film set, then into the trailer of “superstar Tara” (Namrata Sheth) to snap some “candids.” Alas, they discover a little too much about her, leading to another gory melee. Each is a bit better than the last, but these splattery scenarios nonetheless feel like the same thing in different settings — preliminary jitters, then carnage and monsters — only somewhat alleviated by the novelty of “Stork”’s surreal climactic attic tableau, “Girl”’s Bollywood musical number, or “Dive”’s alarming creature design.
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