The V/H/S franchise has never been polite about horror. It's jagged, messy, stitched together with duct tape and blood—and that's the point. Now, thirteen years after the original V/H/S rattled Sundance back in 2012, Shudder is dragging the series back into the pumpkin-lit streets with V/H/S/Halloween. The first teaser trailer—chaotic, grainy, loud—has landed, and so has the poster. Both remind us: Halloween isn't about safety, it's about survival.
Streaming exclusively on Shudder beginning October 3, 2025, this latest anthology offers six new segments, each spiked with its own flavor of terror. Behind the tapes this time: Bryan M. Ferguson (Diet Phantasma), Casper Kelly (Fun Size—yes, the same surrealist who birthed Too Many Cooks), Micheline Pitt-Norman and R.H. Norman (Home Haunt), Alex Ross Perry (Kidprint—yes, the guy behind Listen Up Philip), Paco Plaza (Ut Supra Sic Infra—if you've seen REC, you already know the dread), and Anna Zlokovic (Coochie Coochie Coo).
Actress Kate Siegel called the series “a springboard for new and up-and-coming filmmakers.” That's not marketing fluff—it's the legacy. V/H/S has always been an experimental horror playground, a proving ground where one filmmaker's bizarre nightmare becomes another's cult classic. Think of it as a cinematic haunted house, with each door leading somewhere stranger, darker.
The teaser itself? It's exactly what fans want: jittery camcorder static, kids in masks, a flash of blood that's here and gone before your brain fully processes it. The editing feels feverish, designed to trigger both nostalgia for analog tapes and the unease of finding something you weren't supposed to watch. Gorgeous. Grating. Gorgeous again.
By now, the franchise is eight films deep: V/H/S (2012), V/H/S/2 (2013), V/H/S: Viral (2014), V/H/S/94 (2021), V/H/S/99 (2022), V/H/S/85 (2023), V/H/S/Beyond (2024), and now V/H/S/Halloween. It's survived long enough to outlast skepticism, with producers Josh Goldbloom, James Harris, Roy Lee, Brad Miska, Steven Schneider, and Michael Schreiber keeping the project stitched together across years and tonal shifts. Not every entry has landed, sure—but the thrill of unpredictability has always been the sell.
And maybe that's what makes V/H/S/Halloween feel timely. Horror thrives on cycles—slashers, found footage, elevated dread—and this franchise has managed to adapt without pretending it's polished. It's grimy cinema. It looks bad on purpose. And in an age where streaming horror often feels algorithmically smooth, there's something refreshing about watching a project that still dares to be ugly.
So here we are: candy buckets, cursed tapes, a nightmare anthology ready to drop October 3rd. Another round of V/H/S. Another excuse to leave the lights on. Who's in?
Watch the first teaser here: YouTube – V/H/S/Halloween Teaser Trailer #1
What You Should Know Before Streaming V/H/S/Halloween
Streaming Release Date
October 3, 2025, exclusively on Shudder—mark the calendar before the jack-o'-lanterns rot.
Anthology Lineup
Six shorts, spanning surrealism, found footage chaos, and straight-up gore, from filmmakers like Casper Kelly and Paco Plaza.
Franchise Legacy
This is the eighth V/H/S film since 2012, a franchise that's become a testing ground for horror's rising voices.
Teaser Vibe
Static, masks, sharp cuts of violence—it feels like someone spliced together your childhood VHS tapes with a snuff reel.
Behind the Curtain
Produced by a veteran team including Josh Goldbloom and Roy Lee, ensuring the chaos is curated, not random.
