We’re just over five weeks away from Halloween—but just over one week away from V/H/S/Halloween. The long-running found-footage horror anthology has just dropped its full trailer, and while it offers little in the way of narrative teases, the unsettling sights and sounds confirm this one will go down like a chocolate bar studded with razor blades. It’ll be hard to top the series’ most recent entries—V/H/S/Beyond and V/H/S/85—but the seasonal theming does feel rather perfect here.
The full film runs 115 minutes and contains five shorts, on par with most previous entries in the V/H/S series. The segments are: “Diet Phantasma” by Bryan M. Ferguson; “Fun Size” by Casper Kelly (Star Trek: Very Short Treks); “Home Haunt” by Micheline Pitt-Norman and R.H. Norman; “Kidprint” by Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell); “Ut Supra Sic Infra” (“As Above, So Below”) by Paco Plaza (Rec); and “Coochie Coochie Coo” by Anna Zlokovic (Appendage).
The best V/H/S shorts find creative and inspired ways to incorporate the found-footage shooting style, and now that V/H/S has seemingly moved on from affixing years to its installments, there’s room for stories set in the early days of camcorders, right up through the latest advancements in home security systems. Ghosts, demons, witches, and ghouls are timeless, after all.
Devoted fans also hope for surprising, shocking stories with a strong visual component—jump scares ahoy!—and from the looks of this trailer, we’ll be getting plenty to jangle our nerves as spooky season begins in earnest.
There’s also a new poster, complete with a leering red skull, to tempt you:
V/H/S/Halloween hits Shudder October 3.