Found footage horror movies frequently face one big issue that's hard to avoid, but the V/H/S/94 it's brought its own unique spin to the concept.
The V/H/S movies combine found footage with the anthology template, with each installment involving the discovery of VHS cassettes with their own individual, self-contained stories. This approach made the franchise stand apart even among found footage movies, with audiences getting several shorts for the price of one with each movie. Of course, unless they're taking place on a Zoom call (arguably to their detriment), the biggest issue this subgenre faces is the question of why characters continue filming in horrifying situations where most people would simply drop the camera and run. The V/H/S franchise's template helped the films dodge this issue in a couple of very unique ways.
By merging found footage with horror anthology, the V/H/S movies present their scary tales with the duration of short films rather than feature-length films. With most of the individual segments being around fifteen to twenty minutes long max, there's less time where the characters are required to be filming monsters, killers, or supernatural phenomena like in The Blair Witch Project. Even with longer segments like "Amateur Night" in the first V/H/S or V/H/S 2's "Safe Haven" venturing more into the half hour range, the events onscreen build to a crescendo, with the most horrifying portions taking place in the final minutes.
This means that characters spend less time fleeing in terror in each segment, which leaves much less of a window for the question of why they're still filming at all to creep like the average found footage movie. On top of that, numerous individual shorts in the V/H/S series have also found creative ways to sidestep the issue by having cameras placed in areas that don't require characters to carry them as they would in other contemporary found footage movies like Creep.
A few examples include "Amateur Night" having a camera installed on the main character's glasses, along with V/H/S 2's "Phase I: Clinical Trials" or "A Ride In The Park" featuring a camera installed in an experimental synthetic eye and a camera mounted onto a bicycler's helmet. Sometimes, the villains of V/H/S are the ones to do the filming, as seen original film's segment "Second Honeymoon".
Other found footage movies have used their own methods of avoiding the subgenre's most omnipresent issue, such as Paranormal Activity keeping its cameras mainly stationary or As found footage movies have evolved, the V/H/S franchise has done a particularly commendable job in adapting to the issue, keeping its found footage segments short enough that suspension of disbelief for is easier on the part of viewers, and when the opportunity arises, strategically placing cameras in areas where traditional filming isn't necessary.
