Last year during the Sundance film festival, a horror movie called V/H/S made a huge splash. The film was so shocking and scary, people were literally passing out while watching the film. With that kind of publicity, I had to find out what the hype was all about, so I made sure to catch it during SXSW last year which you can read about here. That being said, if you thought the first film was creepy as hell, just wait till you see what they have in store for the sequel-ish film S-VHS.
The film will make its world premiere during Sundance again and this time it seems like creepy little kids are the main things to worry about. Sticking with the same format as the first one, S-VHS shows what happens when a group of investigators stumble upon a collection of VHS tapes while searching for a missing student. I don’t know who these people are that keep VHS tapes laying around still, but enough is enough! My grandma doesn’t even use VHS tapes anymore!
That being said, we have the first teaser trailer for the film which originally debuted via Entertainment Weekly.
S-VHS features clips directed by Gareth Evans, Timo Tjahjanto, Eduardo Sanchez, Gregg Hale, Jason Eisener, Adam Wingard, and Simon Barrett. Overall a pretty decent line-up for the film and it will be interesting to see if the sequel can impress me more than the first film. For a more detailed look, here is the official synopsis from the Sundance Film Festival’s site:
Inside a darkened house looms a column of TVs littered with VHS tapes, a pagan shrine to forgotten analog gods. The screens crackle and pop endlessly with monochrome vistas of static—white noise permeating the brain and fogging concentration. But you must fight the urge to relax: this is no mere movie night. Those obsolete spools contain more than just magnetic tape. They are imprinted with the very soul of evil.
From the demented minds that brought you last year’s V/H/S comes S-VHS, an all-new anthology of dread, madness, and gore. This follow-up ventures even further down the demented path blazed by its predecessor, discovering new and terrifying territory in the genre. This is modern horror at its most inventive, shrewdly subverting our expectations about viral videos in ways that are just as satisfying as they are sadistic. The result is the rarest of all tapes—a second generation with no loss of quality.
Speaking of the original film, Magnet is actually releasing V/H/S on a format that is pretty much dead in the U.S. Yes, V/H/S will be released on VHS! how they will do this, I’m not really sure, since the last VHS production factory went out of business in the U.S. back in 2008. Regardless, a press release went out saying that it would be available via VHS format to the U.S., however there is no release date or future details at this time regarding it besides the image of the box.
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