Metacritic reviews

Grab on for dear life and expect a freakish, wild, and seriously f#cked up ride from start to finish - which, of course, is every horror fan's dream.

While the scares are in short supply, there’s a surfeit of macabre, tongue-in-cheek creativity to be found here.

Although it’s by far the weakest of the three, there are some genuinely creative moments that spark the brain and fry the hairs.

Overall, this is easily the weakest of the three V/H/S anthologies thus far, particularly due to its connecting thread.

Each propulsive segment features a handful of disturbing sequences... But such pleasures barely compensate for the vapidity of V/H/S: Viral's sketches.

Getting four mediocre horror efforts for the price of one doesn't exactly represent a significant bargain.

One need go no further than the film's first segment to grasp how little interest the latest entry in the anthology series has in generating chills from the lo-fi.

A sequel so slapdash and ineffectual that its army of directors — six of them total, counting the poor sucker whose contribution got axed — might well be accused of intentionally burying the franchise. More charitably, perhaps they were trying to put a nail in the coffin of all found-footage horror. Some good must come from this much bad.

It feels like the series has run its course, and should be relegated to the dustbin of history alongside the hardware it so lovingly pays tribute to.

There was little reason to expect such a horrendous drop in quality as there is to “Viral,” a film that contains some of the sloppiest, most ineffective filmmaking I’ve seen all year.