Cleverly shot and with some remarkable practical effects, it’s a solid tone-setter in that it’s mildly humorous before diving into the dark end of the drain.
Thinking she’s turning an urban legend into a human interest piece about the homeless that live in a storm drain, the reporter finds herself in over her head pretty quickly. (It's the first one that actually feels shot on VHS.)Ĭhloe Okuno helms the first segment, “Storm Drain,” which tracks a reporter ( Anna Hopkins) as she hunts down reports of a mysterious “ratman” that lives in the sewers. As the SWAT team finds increasingly disturbing scenes of carnage, the anthology unfolds on the TVs, and the production this time very accurately embraces the aesthetic of recording on tape, complete with picture jumps, static, and focus issues. Bodies are slumped in front of screens, their eyes on the floor next to them.
The concept is similar to the previous three films with a wraparound segment (directed by Jennifer Reeder, “ Knives and Skin”) about a SWAT team on a mission into a building that appears to have been taken over by a cult of VHS nasties.
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