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2020
Not Rated
Oscilloscope
1 h 12 m

2020
Not Rated
Oscilloscope
1 h 12 m

Summary A bizarre retro comedy shot entirely on VHS, VHYes takes us back to a simpler time, when twelve-year-old Ralph mistakenly records home videos and his favorite late night shows over his parents’ wedding tape. The result is a nostalgic wave of home shopping clips, censored pornography, and nefarious true-crime tales that threaten to unkind...

Comedy

Directed By: Jack Henry Robbins

Written By: Nunzio Randazzo, Nate Gold, Jack Henry Robbins

2020
Not Rated
Oscilloscope
1 h 12 m

2020
Not Rated
Oscilloscope
1 h 12 m

VHYes

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews

52

User Score Mixed or Average Based on 4 User Ratings

5.8

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Summary A bizarre retro comedy shot entirely on VHS, VHYes takes us back to a simpler time, when twelve-year-old Ralph mistakenly records home videos and his favorite late night shows over his parents’ wedding tape. The result is a nostalgic wave of home shopping clips, censored pornography, and nefarious true-crime tales that threaten to unkind...

Comedy

Directed By: Jack Henry Robbins

Written By: Nunzio Randazzo, Nate Gold, Jack Henry Robbins

Where to Watch

Critic Reviews

Metascore

Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews

42% Positive
5 Reviews

33% Mixed
4 Reviews

25% Negative
3 Reviews

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Critic Reviews

Metascore

Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews

42% Positive
5 Reviews

33% Mixed
4 Reviews

25% Negative
3 Reviews

All Reviews
Positive Reviews
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Negative Reviews

Jan 20, 2020

Check out VHYES if you want to see the most original film to come out in ages.

By Lorry Kikta FULL REVIEW

Jan 15, 2020

Think of the film as an extended cousin of Too Many Cooks, where parody gives way to weirdness, which gives way to surrealism, which gives way to genuine horror by the end. Bonkers as the combination sounds, and it is unimpeachably bonkers, the effect of their marriage is hypnotic.

By Andrew Crump FULL REVIEW

Austin Chronicle

Jan 15, 2020

Television is reality, and reality is less than television. And that is, by the end of the 72-minute-long VHYes’ gleefully immersive, intermittently profound “found footage,” a lesson Ralph osmotically absorbs through the VHS viewfinder of his life.

By Marc Savlov FULL REVIEW

Jan 16, 2020

Unfortunately, this handheld coming-of-age story is frequently interrupted by variably convincing stretches of channel surfing, as though someone recorded over much of the former with the latter. And even with pros like Charlyne Yi and Kerri Kenney lending their deadpan chops, real weird TV is funnier. Weirder, too.

By A.A. Dowd FULL REVIEW

Jan 15, 2020

A lot of the times the jokes feel reliant on the video format and its limitations, as if the video tracking and purposefully bad production qualities can fill the gap between ideas and execution. Instead, the gap gets filled with memories of shows and movies that do a better job at the same thing.

Jan 12, 2020

The film settles much too comfortably into the well-trodden footsteps of other works.

By Clayton Dillard FULL REVIEW

Jan 17, 2020

I didn't see what was funny about the shallow wackiness of VHYes.

By Nick Allen FULL REVIEW

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User Reviews

User Score

Mixed or Average Based on 4 User Ratings

25% Positive
1 Rating

75% Mixed
3 Ratings

0% Negative
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User Reviews

User Score

Mixed or Average Based on 4 User Ratings

25% Positive
1 Rating

75% Mixed
3 Ratings

0% Negative
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Details

Production Company Hot Winter Films

Release Date Jan 12, 2020

Duration 1 h 12 m

Rating Not Rated

Genres

Comedy

Website https://vhyes.oscilloscope.net/

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