CREEPY POST: ‘V/H/S’ Red-Band Trailer and First Dates Announced
Every year brings yet another indie horror film that earns big buzz on the festival circuit, and then blows up into a box office phenomenon. Saw, Paranormal Activity - the list goes on.
A contender to be the big horror success story of 2012 is V/H/S, a short film anthology consisting of five chapters of what some people say is one of the scariest films in years (never heard that before). But then again, judging from the trailer, there is a legitimate chance that V/H/S could make good on its claim.
The film seems to fit in the vein of the wonderful Spanish found-footage film, [REC], while still offering the choice buffet of different types of horror, as seen in some great cult-classics like Twilight Zone: The Movie or Creepshow. Just writing that combination gets me a little excited.
The group of writer/directors that made the anthology - Ti West (House of the Devil), Joe Swanberg (Autoerotic), Radio Silence (a club of filmmakers), David Bruckner (The Signal), Adam Wingard (You’re Next), and Glenn McQuaid (Stakeland) - have all had some pretty good success on the indie circuit (save Radio Silence, who are making their feature-film debut). More importantly, the indie directors have all shown real creativity in their filmmaking – often with few resources and small budgets.
To see them getting together and applying their collective talents to a project like this, should immediately excite any horror fan; even those who typically hate found-footage projects. By keeping things cut into short segments, it also avoids the danger of cheesy “filler” moments that get squeezed into found-footage horror flicks, in order to kill time between…well, kills. In fact, thinking about it, anthology format might be the best thing to happen to found-footage since the sub-genre got started.
Response from the festival circuit has been strong; V/H/S was a standout at both Sundance and SXSW, with everyone from high-brow critics to Internet genre geeks at least complimenting the movie for some impressive merits (even if there are a few shortcomings, as well). Luckily, fans won’t have to wait forever to see it, if they’re interested:
V/H/S will screen at a home theater near you when it premieres On Demand starting August 31st; it will be in theaters weeks later, on October 5, 2012.
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Here are the announced dates for when the film will be reaching theaters, information gained from BloodyDisgusting.
10/5/2012
Berkeley, CA: Shattuck Cinemas 10
San Diego, CA: Ken Cinema
San Francisco, CA: Lumiere Theatre 3
West Los Angeles, CA: Nuart Theatre
Denver, CO: Mayan Theatre
Washington, DC: E Street Cinema
Chicago, IL: Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema
Indianapolis, IN: Keystone Art Cinema 7
Cambridge, MA: Kendall Square Cinema 9
Minneapolis, MN: Lagoon Cinema
University City, MO: Tivoli Theatre
New York, NY: Sunshine Cinema 5
Portland, OR: Hollywood Theatre
Philadelphia, PA: Ritz at the Bourse
Seattle, WA: Varsity Theatre
10/12/2012
Atlanta, GA: Midtown Art Cinemas 8
Brookline, MA: Coolidge Corner Theatre
Omaha, NE: Dundee (Art)
Pleasantville, NY: Jacob Burns Film Center
10/13/2012
Rochester, NY: Little Theatre
10/19/2012
Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa, Bijou Theater
10/25/2012
Charlotte, NC: Movies @ CrownPoint 12
10/26/2012
Maitland, FL: Enzian Theatre
Toms River, NJ: Traco Theatre
Tulsa, OK: Circle Cinema
11/2/2012
Columbus, OH: Gateway Film Center 8
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Here's a brief synopsis of the film as well.
A quick rundown: first is David Bruckner, director of “The Signal,” and a film about three douchey guys who use the aforementioned glasses-cam to scope out women. They pick up two girls at a bar and head back to the motel, but it is clear that one of them (the one who keeps staring directly at the camera in a REALLY CREEPY WAY) is a bit off. It is sexy, scary and solid.
Next, Ti West (“The Innkeepers”) takes us on a young couple’s trip to the Grand Canyon and a motel with the world’s worst security system. This one features one of the most innovative takes on the pan-across-the-room-and-reveal-something-u
This is followed by Glenn McQuaid’s (director of “I Sell The Dead”) very stylized teen trip to the woods and a creature that comes to life through the very glitchy medium of video itself.
Joe Swanberg’s (the Grand Mufti of Mumblecore) entry is a scary-as-hell collection of Skype conversation between a frightened college student hearing bumps in the night and her medical school boyfriend. There are some outstanding moments of tension that exploit the video chat format in really unique ways.
The movie concludes with an entry from the new film collective named Radio Silence which takes V/H/S to levels of pure WTF in a haunted house tweak on Ti West’s “House of the Devil.” The framing device from Adam Wingard (director of the yet-to-be-released masterpiece “You’re Next”) lacks some of the jump scare oomph, but is something of the silent hero establishing the dastardly aesthetic of the overall piece
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I'm kinda sketchy on anthology movies after Chillerama lol But I will love this shit out of VHS regardless of anything. I need more anthology horror in my life.
LMAO.
Gothika
Ju-On
The Caller
Atrocious
Thinner
Let The Right One In
The Last Exorcism
Stigmata
Session 9
Paranormal Entity
Others on Netflix Instant are:
Grave Encounters
Yellowbrickroad
Session 9
House
House of the Devil
Shutter
Atroctious
Creepshow 1 and 2
Premonitions (idk if it's on Netflix, it's Japanese with subtitles and the lead actor has hilarious GIF-worthy facial expressions)
The Descent
The Woman In Black
[REC] or Quarantine
The Ruins
Lake Mungo
It happened again a few weeks later but not as hard... it wasn't as scary the second time. It sort of just bugged me because for a few years a few things would happen but super sporadically, enough that I sort of just assumed I was bullshitting myself. Nothing has happened in years though.
I was once at a lock in at my 150+ year old church. Most of us were 15/16 years old and the oldest person there was my 20 year old youth group leader. The doors were all locked so no one else could get in. While everyone else was in an entirely different wing of the church, my friend and I decided to take a nap in the sanctuary. I went to get my pillow and saw an old woman walking down the hallway. She didn't scare me (and for some reason I wasn't concerned), but it was pretty creepy. Later I told my mom, who worked at the church, about her. My mom said that tons of other people had reported seeing the same woman (the descriptions matched perfectly) at different times, but always in the same place. Apparently they think she's a ghost of a widow of one of the old ministers.
Second story (I've told here before, but whatever): When I was little I use to tell a ghost story about a woman who died in our house and haunted it now. It wasn't until years later that my parents told me they were always creeped out by the story because a woman HAD died in our house (which they had never told me because they thought it would scare me) and they believed she haunted it. We ended up moving away from the house about 10 years ago.
A few months ago we ran into the guy who bought the house from us. We had never told him we thought it was haunted. He brought up the ghost himself and said that her name was Irene and she said to tell us hi.
The name of the ghost from the story I told as a little girl? Irene.
we were so scared. i told my brother Oh don't worry I'm sure it was just the wind. but there wasn't any wind that night. idk if it was even something paranormal, i was just scared it was some psycho about to pull some Strangers shit on us.
I thought my cat must have been jumping on my cell phone (unlikely, as it was a clamshell model and my cat only pretends to have opposible thumbs), but the police said the calls came from my landline, which I never used.
The whole incident freaked me the fuck out.
Grabbed a knife and locked myself in my parents' room and cried on the phone to them.
Found out later it was my brothers' friends I'd never met who apparently didn't have any manners.
I still hate them.
My family believes that we're haunted by my uncle, but not in a bad way. If you turn on a CD player with his favorite CD in it within an hour it'll skip to a random number and start playing (We've tried this with different CDs and different players in different locations)
Sometimes when when we talk about him knocks can be heard, and one time my mom and I were talking about the funny things he used to do and apparently he got mad and slammed the front door (We lived in an apartment building with a pretty solid door so it wasn't the wind).
We also have a cousin who "visited" every one of his cousin when they turned the same age as he was when he died. (not on their birthday but within the same year)
My mom's apartment was also haunted by an old lady. First time she saw it was when she was taking a shower, she looked down and this old lady was bent over the tube rim, like she was washing her hair too.
A month later my step-dad and little brother were sitting in his room, you can see the hallway from where they were sitting, and the front door (same front door as before) opens and closes, they see someone walking passed in the hallway and then the bathroom door closes. They thought it was me, since I was about to come home soon, but then they didn't hear anything else and when my step-dad went to check on "me," the bathroom was empty.
Sometimes in the middle of the night you could also hear her in the kitchen, going through the drawers.
About a year ago my other uncle came to visit and we think she liked his energy because she hasn't been seen since then but his family has started to hear things in their house instead.
Creepy, yes but not too scary. We were taught to tell them to go away if they bother us.
And I just have to say, the Ken in SD is flawfree, I love that theater.
Clive Barker's Books of Blood are great as well.
I see no lies! It's the best for midnight movies + they show the Oscar nominated shorts every year. Also, free candy. I could go on and on <3
Edited at 2012-08-05 01:12 am (UTC)
And yes you are not alone!!