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‘V/H/S/Halloween’ Announced, Releasing This October
The V/H/S franchise is iconic and close to indie horror-hounds’ hearts. The franchise started with its first installment in 2012, featuring short films from Ti West, Adam Wingard, and other staples of contemporary indie horror cinema. The premise was simple: an anthology of V/H/S or found footage-themed horror shorts, usually with an interconnecting or overarching story.
As the franchise has expanded into other sequels filled with analog terrors, themed around specific years such as 1994 or 1999, fans have been clamoring for every new entry to see what the overarching connections will be and which indie Directors will either make their debut or pitch original concepts. Just announced by Shudder, the newest entry in the V/H/S series should be reason for excitement.
Shudder has announced V/H/S: Halloween, the eighth installment of the found footage horror series. It has a planned release of October 3rd, and will presumably be themed around the spookiest holiday of the year. Not only is the theme and release date exciting, but the lineup of Directors sounds incredible.
According to Variety, Paco Plaza, director of the infamous Spanish horror film Rec, as well as cult filmmaker Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell, Pavement), will both direct original segments for Halloween. Casper Kelly, creator of the infamous Too Many Cooks short, will also have a segment in the film, as well as filmmakers Bryan M. Ferguson, Casper Kelly, Micheline Pitt-Norman, R.H. Norman, and Anna Zlokovic.
While not much is known about the plots of the segments at this time, or the overarching narrative, it should be filled to the brim with seasonal, joyous terror. While it is always exciting to get shorts from household names like Mike Flanagan and Scott Derrickson, it’s also exciting to have the next installment feature names that not every horror fan might be as familiar with. All that’s left to do now is suffer through the rest of these hot months, and wait on the edge of our seats for a new anthology to welcome us into Halloween season.
Horror has, once again, proven it is the greatest force of positivity in the world of art today. Duplass Brothers Productions, known for its Creep franchise, has partnered with the Transgender Film Center to create the Found Footage Feature Fund. It was unveiled at Fantastic Fest, and promises an intersection of analog terror and empowered voices.
This is a fully financed, $25,000 grant for Trans filmmakers to tell original stories. The only criteria is that films should incorporate some element of found footage, collage, or other form of experimental media within their project. Mark Duplass, along with Trans Film Center Executive Sav Rodgers, says this is an opportunity not just to support independent storytellers, but to empower Trans filmmakers. A message we can totally get behind.
This fund is a phenomenal response to an era of discrimination, battling bigotry with action, art, and creativity.. The fund will open on October 23rd and close on November 7th. The grantee will be selected in December.
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The V/H/S franchise is back and scarier than ever, just in time for the season of the witch. The series, which began with its initial entry in 2012, promises a new theme with each installment. Themes such as science-fiction, 1994, and 1999 have been covered, but this year’s may prove both the scariest and the most fun: Halloween. Even more exciting is, about two months after announcement, the trailer for V/H/S Halloween has finally been released.
The trailer is itself a total blast. Starting with a 90s-family-movie-esque voice over, the intro back to the Halloween commercials of the early 2000s. The viewer is welcomed to an array of nostalgic, seasonal costumes, decorations and animatronics, only to be blindsided by a switch to ominous music and bloody, grungy terror with autumnal flare. One could most likely expect possessions, masked killers and nightmare-inducing mascot characters. So far, this seems perfect for Goosebumps fans.
Directors for this installment include genre favorites Alex-Ross Perry, Paco Plaza, and more. V/H/S Halloween will be released on SHUDDER on October 3rd.
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