‘V/H/S/MIXTAPE’ Poster Lands Earlier than Its Oct. 9 Shudder Debut

The primary poster for V/H/S/MIXTAPE is right here, three weeks forward of the ninth found-footage anthology’s premiere on Shudder October 9. The organizing thought this time is sound. Each section runs on music, rhythm or audio because the factor that does the killing.

What Is Really on This Tape

Per Bloody Disgusting, the operating order breaks down like this. Renee Zhan directs “Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance,” a few studio reviving a cancelled puppet present with an disagreeable historical past, utilizing puppets constructed by Jim Henson’s Creature Store. David Moreau directs “Heartbeat,” wherein urbex influencers get caught inside a decommissioned army facility constructed for sonic experiments. Ernest Dickerson directs “The Music of Mr. Sze,” a pupil documentary a few reclusive musician. RZA directs “Demise Tone,” following a sound engineer working from her late father’s directions towards one remaining observe. GWAR hosts the wraparound, staged as an MTV-style present broadcast from hell.

Music video interludes come from Flying Lotus, who has been inside this franchise earlier than, and from Tobias Forge of Ghost, directing for the primary time.

The Musicians Are Not the Gimmick

A lineup with RZA, GWAR and the singer from Ghost on it reads like a novelty reserving, and it’s price saying plainly that the directing bench right here is the true factor.

Ernest Dickerson shot Do the Proper Factor and Malcolm X for Spike Lee earlier than shifting to the chair himself, and Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight stays one of many extra purely entertaining studio horror footage of the nineties. David Moreau co-directed Ils, the 2006 French home-invasion movie that also turns up on each listing of the meanest issues the style has produced, and extra lately the single-take MadS. RZA has been directing options since The Man with the Iron Fists in 2012. It is a sturdier group than the franchise often assembles, and the franchise often assembles a superb one.

Why Shudder Retains Reserving October

In accordance with the announcement, V/H/S/HALLOWEEN was Shudder’s most-watched unique movie premiere of 2025, which is many of the clarification for why this sequence retains touchdown within the first week of October. Josh Goldbloom, Steven Schneider, Roy Lee, Michael Schreiber and Brad Miska produce, with Ben Ross and Rami Yassin government producing. The movie is billed as a mixture of cosmic horror, psychological suspense and practical-effects splatter, which is press-release language for we aren’t telling you but.

No trailer has been launched. The poster is all the reveal for the second, and with the premiere this shut, that won’t maintain.

V/H/S/MIXTAPE premieres on Shudder October 9. A separate entry, V/H/S: SCP, is heading to theaters with A24. For what else is price your time on the service, see our information to the perfect horror motion pictures on Shudder, and our upcoming horror motion pictures calendar for the remainder of the season.