This article was originally published on October 6, 2023. It has been updated to include segments from V/H/S/Halloween, now streaming on Shudder .

When the first V/H/S made its way to theaters and VOD in the autumn of 2012, it looked like a one-off curiosity, not the beginning of a regular showcase for exciting voices in horror. Roping together a handful of spooky short films all shot in the style of home videos, the omnibus project was clearly made to capitalize on the found-footage craze that Paranormal Activity had resparked a few years earlier. V/H/S was also steeped, of course, in the language of a more distant past: It was a Creepshow -style anthology of the kind that was last big in the ’80s and was named for a movie-watching technology that had gone obsolete around the

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