EXPERIENCE SPOOKY season again and again as the latest incarnation of the lauded V/H/S horror anthology series has arrived for its eighth chilling outing – V/H/S/Halloween. The latest haunting incarnation features five new spine-chilling segments and is set to delight and disgust horror junkies as it arrives on Blu-ray, DVD and digital, courtesy of Acorn Media International.
V/H/S/Halloween introduces a collection of wickedly watchable tales of terror from a host of renowned filmmakers including Bryan M. Ferguson (Pumpkin Guts), Anna Zlokovic (Appendage), Paco Plaza (Verónica,[Rec]), Casper Kelly (Adult Swim Yule Log), Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell), Micheline Pitt-Norman (Grummy) and R.H. Norman (Haji).
Kicking off with Coochie Coochie Coo, written and directed by Anna Zlokovic – we meet two high school trick or treaters, dressed as babies who come face to face with a malevolent spirit known as ‘The Mommy’ – an urban legend who supposedly kidnaps children from their homes on the spookiest night of the year.
Next up is Paco Plaza’s Ut Supra Sic Infra where Enric – the sole survivor of a Halloween party massacre –accompanies police to the original crime scene to try and help them reconstruct the events of that fateful night – but unbeknownst to them, evil entities await them inside.
Halloween candy takes on a new life in Casper Kelly’s Fun Size, as four friends on the hunt for sweet treats are swallowed up by a candy bowl. They emerge in a parallel reality where sweets rule supreme and humans are turned into sugary snacks.
Kidprint – from writer-director Alex Ross Perry – takes an even darker turn, feeding into the all too real fear of kidnappings. When disturbing secrets about a local video store that specialises in creating video IDs which can be used to help search for missing children come to light, every parent’s worst fears are about to come true.
A homemade house of horrors comes to life in Micheline Pitt-Norman and R.H. Norman’s Home Haunt as a family construct their annual haunted house for Halloween. But the fun ritual takes a deadly turn when a spooky stolen record makes the decorations come to life, wreaking paranormal havoc on the guests.
Bryan M. Ferguson’s frame narrative Diet Phantasma weaves through the feature, with each segment documenting a group of taste trial participants who face life-threatening side effects from a new kind of diet soda.
Grab your sweet bucket and press play on V/H/S/Halloween for another round of truly disturbing found footage nightmares centred around every horror fiend’s favourite time of the year.
SPECIAL FEATURES include:
• Filmmaker Commentaries
• Behind the Scenes: Diet Phantasma, Coochie Coochie Coo
• KidPrint Deleted Scene
• Diet Phantasma Uninterrupted Cut
• Diet Phantasma Commercial
• Diet Phantasma Gallery
Title: V/H/S/Halloween Blu-ray
Cat.No: AB2109 RRP: £19.99
Cert: 18 Running Time: mins. 115 on 1 disc
Title: V/H/S/Halloween DVD
Cat.No: AV3839 RRP: £15.99
Cert: 18 Running Time: mins. 115 on 1 disc
Available on digital to download and keep
ABOUT ACORN MEDIA INTERNATIONAL:
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