My favorite horror movies of 2023:
1. Thanksgiving
2. Saw X
3. Evil Dead Rise
4. Insidious: The Red Door
5. Scream VI
6. V/H/S 85
7. M3gan
8. When Evil Lurks
9. The Jester
10. Hell House: Origins
11. Skinamarink
12. Never Hike Alone 2
13. It's a Wonderful Knife
14. Resident Evil: Death Island
15. Tape Head: The Return of Jacob Cobb
16. Five Nights At Freddy's
17. No One Will Save You
18. Chloe
V/H/S/85 will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on February 27 via RLJE Films. The sixth installment in the found footage horror anthology franchise is streaming exclusively on Shudder.
It features segments directed by David Bruckner (The Ritual), Scott Derrickson (Sinister), Gigi Saul Guerrero (Bingo Hell), Natasha Kermani (Lucky), and Mike P. Nelson (Wrong Turn).
Special features are listed below.
Special features:
Filmmaker audio commentary
Dreamkill uncut Super 8 footage
Uninterrupted cuts
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An ominous mixtape blends never before seen snuff footage with nightmarish newscasts and disturbing home video to create a surreal, analog mashup of the forgotten '80s.
Someone replied to me on Youtube with another interpretation. It's not that Dreamkill from V/H/S/85 takes place in the Black Phone universe, it's that Black Phone takes place in the V/H/S universe. This is infinitely funnier because it means that not only is all the fucked up shit from every vignette throughout the entire V/H/S series happening in the same world, but also that this relatively tame story with a happy ending is happening alongside the graphic mutilations and zombie outbreaks and Aztec gods and Raatma.
Oops this post is for real late lol. My choice for last night was the sixth installment in the V/H/S franchise: V/H/S85
I rated this 7/10 as a whole, but I'll breakdown my ratings for each segment too, cause why not lol. This was a great VHS movie, much better than some of the previous installments (here's looking at you, V/H/S Viral).
Like the previous films this one is made up of different segments, plus a main background story type thing going on too. The background story for this one was Total Copy, and I'm rating that 8/10. Good acting, creepy monster, made me laugh out loud at the part where it's replicating a guy named Gary, and the main doctor says "do you wanna watch that again?" the camera pans into Gary's unamused face and the narrator deadpan says "Gary did not want to watch it again." Poor Gary, they should have listened to the other scientist who was played by an uncredited Kelli Garner <3, and gotten the hell outta there cause "Rory" wasn't playing around.
The first segment ties into another one, both directed by the same person. No Wake and Ambrosia were my two favorites of the whole film. Great fun, good acting, good effects, good twist, good resolution. I want a whole film with this, or showing the aftermath or something cause I need moooooooore.
God of Death was the next segment, and it was good too. Nothing amazing, but good.
Next segment was TKNOGD, and I kiiiiind of liked it, but it's probably my least favorite from the whole movie. Kinda neat though.
The last one is Dreamkill, and it was good though I totally guessed who the killer was going to be. Good acting, and I loooooove James Ransone so that was fun to see him in this.
All around, this was a pretty good movie. If you've enjoyed the other V/H/S movies, you'll enjoy this one too. I still want a full movie for No Wake/Ambrosia though cause that was fantastic lol.