Another week, another V/H/S candidate. But hey, you know what they say, what's better than one V/H/S 94 candidate? Two V/H/S 94 candidates! Well, technically there's actually four, but we'll save those other two for next week. Until then, let's take a look at Dr. James Suhendra (because we really needed another evil James) and Greg!
What's The Work?[]
V/H/S 94 is the fourth instalment in the V/H/S franchise, and a reboot of the series. The segments we'll be focusing on today are The Subject and Terror. The Subject focuses on a woman known only as Subject 099, who is lately in a long line of failed experiments by Dr. James Suhendra. After she attempts to escape, Suhendra is ready to deem her failure and kill her when a SWAT team breaks down the door and kills him. Only he had a plan for if this were to happen, unleashing Subject 098 on the SWAT team while the leader attempts to kill both it and Subject 099. Terror on the other hand is about the First Patriots Movement Militia, and their plan to perform a terrorist attack on a local building, using the blood within a vampire they've kidnapped to do it. However, when one night two members drunken let the vampire out, it begins to enact its revenge upon the group.
Who Are They? What Have They Done?[]
James[]
Dr. James Suhendra is the main antagonist of the segment The Subject. He can first be seen after subject 097, a man whose head he attached to robotic spider legs, catches on fire. WIth him putting out said fire while chuckling to himself. He then begins talking to the camera, calling subject 097 just another failure. We then cut to him standing in front of two subjects, a male he calls Subject 98, and a female he calls subject 099, with him speaking on two new methods he believes will result in success. He then pulls out a large saw he uses to remove subject 099’s brain, but then subject 098 wakes up and begins struggling. With the camera cutting off as Suhendra ejects subject 098 in the eye to prevent him from waking up again. The camera turns on again to reveal Suhendra has attached the camera to subject 099’s head, with Suhendra making a log on his recorder claiming Subject 099 proves human and machine can be unified. Suhendra begins walking around his lab singing, saying the fools wouldn’t understand. Subject 099 begins struggling, but then Suhendra tells her to relax and switches the camera off. The camera then comes back on to show Suhendra operating on Subject 098, taking the same saw and cutting off his arm and head with it, with a brief shot mixed in of him presumably using the saw on Subject 099 again. He then begins speaking to himself about da Vinci while testing a weapon attached to subject 098, stating it needs more fine tuning.
But then suddenly a news report plays talking about a string of recent disappearances and mutilated body parts found in a canal, and Suhendra is the top suspect. Subject 099 recognises a photo of herself on the news, and while Suhendra is impressed by this, he says she needs to be fully reborn and so turns off her camera head again. When the camera comes back on, Suhendra is attempting to use a drill on Subject 099, but she hits him in the head, knocking him over. She manages to free herself but Suhendra gets up and knocks her out with a metal tray, attempting to kill her with it while calling her a failure. But before he can finish her off, a SWAT team arrives and demands he opens the door. They burst in and immediately ask him to freeze, he responds by calling them idiots and asking if they know what he’s trying to do. The team leader then clarifies they aren’t there to arrest him, before having his men open fire on Suhendra, But unknown to the SWAT team, Suhendra has a contingency plan for if he were to die. A record begins playing and Suhendra tells them his creations are his own, and anyone who tries to take them away will die. Then Subject 098 wakes up and begins slaughtering the SWAT team. Subject 099 however, manages to get away from Subject 098 and finds blueprints, severed limbs and dead bodies. And worst of all, a still alive subject left abandoned by Suhendra, who Subject 099 allows to finally die by unplugging her.
Greg[]
Greg is the main antagonist of the segment Terror. We first see him and two other men, all three armed, walk into their base and into an area where they’re keeping a vampire known as Howlett. He pleads with Greg not to shoot him in the head, only for Greg to do it anyway, while also making sure the whole thing is being recorded. It then cuts to him going on a rant about how the first patriots movement are the only decent men left, as America has been taken over by black people and they seek to mass cleanse America. With him also talking about how they’ll use the vampire to take down the USA. Greg then has Bob give him an overview of a building, and then when Bob comes back into the car, they talk about a plan to sneak the vampire into the building while the sun’s out. Bob also mentions a day care inside the building though Greg doesn’t seem to care, immediately going back to talking about which entrance to use, with them ultimately deciding on the maintenance entrance. We then cut to Greg once again shooting a pleading Howlett in the head. We then see Slater, a character from the wraparound segment Holy Hell, shows up to provide them with weapons and ammunition. This is so that following the attack on the building, the First Patriots militia are able to fend off any officers that come after them. With Slater confirming with Greg no one saw him take the guns, and that there are a lot of cops ready for him and his group to take the feds down.
Greg then gives a speech about how they’re going to use the vampire’s explosive blood to topple the Patrick V. McNamara Federal building. But then Bob asks Greg if they’ve even tested if the blood works. Prompting him to have Howlett shot in the head again and the blood from it collected. They then inject the blood into a bunny, put the bunny into a cage and wait for the sun to come up. At first nothing happens, and Greg begins getting angry, claiming the sun is being blocked by a tree. But after a few seconds, the bunny explodes, causing Greg to fall over. Greg and the other men then begin celebrating the fact it works, immediately followed by the alarm going off and Howlett being shot again. Greg then shows off to the camera a box Howlett will be transported in, but then when he tries to demonstrate its ability to have all four sides fall down, only two sides fall down. Resulted in Greg getting angry demanding they get the part needed soon so they can do it tomorrow. But first he and his men party outside their base and get drunk. But inside their base, Steve and Bob begin messing with Howlett. This results in Howlett getting out, and one by one killing off members of the militia. Greg makes the remaining members head inside to take down Howlett, resulting in every member dying one by one before Greg gets dragged into a room with a lowerable roof. With Howlett opening the roof and exploding, killing Greg once and for all.
Mitigating Factors[]
The last two atleast had some debatable qualities, but these two? Literally nothing.
Suhendra very blatantly doesn’t care about his subjects, evident when he laughs when subject 097 dies and tries to kill subject 099 for attempting to escape.With it also being clear he’s thrown away tons of other subjects he’s deemed failures. It’s obvious he’s only “proud” of his subjects through the lens of them being his achievements, with proof of this being when he talks on the recording about people trying to steal his creations. There’s also the fact that he sets loose subject 098 on the SWAT team, uncaring about it’s or his other subjects' safety. So overall, he has less than nothing. Oh also, if you’ve seen the page for the entity, please note that pretty much nothing it says is accurate. The character the page is on only makes a brief appearance in V/H/S: Viral, and the stuff about it corrupting Suhendra is entirely made up. He's pretty just Indonesian Viktor Frankenstein.
Greg on the other hand isn't as blatant as Suhendra but you'd be hard pressed to find something even debatable about him. He very clearly doesn't care about the members of his group, only keeping them around because they agree and listen to him. He constantly yells at them and insults them, and when Howlett begins killing them off one by one, he reacts with complete apathy. He also seems to be a Christian, but I honestly can't see it as anything more than him trying to excuse his actions as being because God wants it. He does pretty much everything the bible says not to do throughout the segment so I really can't see this as anything close to redeeming.
Heinous Standard[]
Suhendra is one of the most heinous characters in the entire franchise. Even if we were to ignore the fact 94 and it’s following entries are meant to be a reboot for the series, Suhendra would still easily stand out. He has the highest kill count in the entire series, kidnapping 99 people, performing horrific experiments on all of them and then killing off 95 of them. And if we add in the SWAT members, subject 097 and the woman subject 099 mercy killed, we’re looking at a total kill count of 103. And not only that, but we also have to consider the possibility he may not have directly killed all of them. He may have left them to die a slow, agonising death from either starvation or dehydration like he did with the woman on the table. So overall, he is absolutely the worst of the worst when it comes to the new movies.
Greg is frankly just as bad as Suhendra. What he lacks in terms of confirmed kills he makes up for in what he's planning. He wants to destroy a large populated building with a day care inside, and then massacre any cops that come after him. All so he can start his goal of cleansing the USA of all other races. And yeah, he's explicitly the leader of the group. It's his plan their following and everyone takes commands from him. Just like Suhendra, even if this film was canon to the original trilogy, he absolutely stands out as one of the worst characters.
Verdict[]
Both are an easy yes in my opinion, but what do you all think?