📼🎃V/H/S/Halloween (2025): Twisted Tapes, Blood-Soaked Tales & the Terror of Found Footage – Plot, Cast, Release Date & Where to Watch

Halloween is about to get darker, bloodier, and more chaotic than ever. The cult horror anthology franchise V/H/S returns with its eighth installment—V/H/S/Halloween (2025)—a sinister collection of videotapes that transform a night of trick-or-treating into a grotesque fight for survival. Directed by a terrifying lineup of horror visionaries, this new anthology is set to premiere at Fantastic Fest in September 2025 before haunting audiences everywhere on October 3, 2025, exclusively on Shudder.

🎥 A Franchise of Fear: The Legacy of V/H/S

Since its shocking debut at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, V/H/S has redefined found footage horror. Each entry is a chaotic patchwork of blood-soaked shorts tied together by the cursed discovery of VHS tapes—stories that lure innocent viewers into a nightmare they can’t escape.

While the franchise has seen its highs (V/H/S/94 and V/H/S/85 became cult favorites) and lows (V/H/S: Viral divided fans), it remains a bold experiment in horror storytelling. As Bloody Disgusting co-founder Brad Miska once said, “V/H/S is a trust fall into terror.”

Now, V/H/S/Halloween takes that experiment and sharpens it into pure October mayhem.

🩸 The Stories: Six Tapes, Six Nightmares

This year’s anthology unspools six horrifying shorts, each with its own sinister flavor:

• “Diet Phantasma” (Dir. Bryan M. Ferguson) – A surreal plunge into spectral hunger and body horror.

• “Fun Size” (Dir. Casper Kelly) – Trick-or-treating goes wrong in a sickly sweet nightmare that turns candy into carnage.

• “Home Haunt” (Dirs. Micheline Pitt-Norman & R.H. Norman) – Found footage inside a Halloween haunted house that’s too real.

• “Kidprint” (Dir. Alex Ross Perry) – Childhood innocence warped by sinister recordings.

• “Ut Supra Sic Infra” (Dir. Paco Plaza) – A chilling occult tale dripping with ritual horror.

• “Coochie Coochie Coo” (Dir. Anna Zlokovic) – The most bizarre and grotesque entry yet, pushing body horror to its limits.

Like the cursed tapes before them, these stories are linked by the eerie power of VHS—a reminder that the act of watching is itself a trap.

👻 Cast & Creators: The Faces of Fear

While anthology horror leans heavily on direction and atmosphere, V/H/S/Halloween brings together a cast that blends cult indie actors with fresh faces:

• Lawson Greyson

• Jenna Hogan

• Riley Nottingham

• Sarah Nicklin

Behind the camera, the directors are a who’s-who of experimental horror: Casper Kelly (Too Many Cooks), Bryan M. Ferguson, R.H. Norman, Micheline Pitt, Alex Ross Perry, Paco Plaza ([REC]), and Anna Zlokovic. Each brings their own demented vision to the cursed franchise.

🎃 Why V/H/S Works on Halloween

The VHS format itself is the monster. Grainy static, abrupt cuts, and unsteady camerawork create the illusion that what we’re watching could be real. On Halloween night, when masks, shadows, and strange knocks at the door are already unsettling, the idea of finding a tape you shouldn’t watch is the perfect urban legend come to life.

As one chilling line from the trailer suggests: “You pressed play. Now it won’t stop.”

📅 Release Date & Streaming Details

Horror fans won’t have to wait long to press play on the terror.

• World Premiere: September 2025 at Fantastic Fest

• Streaming Release (U.S.): October 3, 2025

• Where to Watch: Exclusively on Shudder

Perfectly timed for Halloween season, the film arrives just as horror fans carve pumpkins, turn off the lights, and dare themselves to press play on something they might regret.

🕯️ Final Thoughts

With V/H/S/Halloween (2025), the franchise is back to reclaim its throne as the wildest, bloodiest, and most inventive horror anthology of our time. From haunted houses to occult rituals, from grotesque nightmares to deadly tricks, these tapes promise to be the most terrifying yet.

This October, the question isn’t “What are you dressing as?”—it’s “Do you dare press play?”