V/H/S/Beyond‘s Trailer Promises a Rip-Roaringly Gruesome Found-Footage Ride

The V/H/S anthology series often slots a twelvemonth into its titles—that way, audiences person a discourse and model for when immoderate depraved, grainy, shaky-cam nightmare they’re viewing is expected to person taken place. But the “Beyond” successful the rubric of V/H/S/Beyond feels perfectly deployed, present that the archetypal trailer is here. As you tin spot from the gory chaos, this could beryllium the implicit wildest introduction successful the long-running found-footage franchise to date… and considering what’s travel before, that’s saying something.

“Just… keep… filming!” From the looks of things, V/H/S/Beyond volition erstwhile again seizure the feeling that you’re watching thing you should not beryllium watching, and whitethorn travel to regret watching, but perfectly cannot teardrop your eyes away.

The archetypal film—simply titled V/H/S—arrived successful 2012; it was followed by V/H/S/2 successful 2013 (which aboriginal spun disconnected 2023 diagnostic Kids vs. Aliens), and V/H/S: Viral successful 2014. Viral was astir apt the weakest introduction to day and meant that the bid took a nap until 2021’s V/H/S/94; since past we’ve gotten an energetic caller installment each year, with 2022’s V/H/S/99 and past year’s peculiarly fantabulous V/H/S/85.

Now present comes Beyond, reminding america that a) the found-footage genre inactive has plentifulness of untapped scare tactics astatine its fingertips; and b) introducing caller originative humor tin support adjacent a well-worn gimmick feeling razor-sharp.

There are six segments successful Beyond, which is billed arsenic being particularly sci-fi fearfulness successful taxable throughout. The directors and their vignettes are arsenic follows: Jay Cheel, “The Wrap” (an alien-abduction exploration); Jordan Downey, “Stork” (inspired by the enactment of creator Oleg Vdovenko); Virat Pal, “Dream Girl” (a Bollywood-set AI tale, besides the archetypal V/H/S conception from India); Justin Martinez’s “Live and Let Dive” (skydiving is already terrifying, truthful you tin ideate the possibilities here); Christian Long and Justin Long’s “Fur Babies” (a much comedic abbreviated acceptable successful and astir a doggie daycare); and actor-turned-director Kate Siegel’s “Stowaway” (described arsenic a blend of Contact and The Fly).

We’re much than acceptable to shove V/H/S/Beyond straight into our eyeballs, and the hold won’t beryllium long: it hits Shudder October 4.

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