The horror-movie anthology “V/H/S/99” features a series of spooky shorts—some good, some not so much—that transport us back to the era of Y2K hysteria.
. The last of those is featured in one of the film’s standout chapters, “Ozzy’s Dungeon,” a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Nickelodeon kids game show. Director Flying Lotus’ segment begins as a straightforward riff, with a group of kids wearing bright shirts, helmets and goggles while going head-to-head in juvenile games on a television set decorated with Styrofoam props and lots of goo.
The initial phase of “Ozzy’s Dungeon” is merely a retro goof. However, it takes a turn for the demented when it cuts to a basement where the show’s host, wearing only his underwear, has been locked inside a dog cage by Donna’s mom , who intends to get revenge against the showbiz personality for her daughter’s injury by forcing him to endure her own version of the show’s obstacle course under threat of being burned with acid.
There’s no lucid rhyme or reason to “Ozzy’s Dungeon,” just a desire to escalate things to the point of jaw-dropping, laugh-inducing hysteria. On that count, it succeeds admirably, and so too does the film’s closer, “To Hell and Back,” whose protagonists Troy and Nate attempt to document a coven of witches performing a Y2K ceremony to summon a demon into a human body and wind up being accidentally pulled into the underworld by a wayward spirit.
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