V/H/S Halloween Blu-ray, DVD and Digital Review

4 stars, a deliciously gross selection of spooky treats.

V/H/S/ Halloween is an 2026 American horror anthology film and is the eighth instalment in the wildly popular V/H/S found footage horror franchise. With the subject of Halloween, every horror officianado’s favourite time of year, you know you are in for a (trick or) treat.

A Shudder Original film, it is available to own in the UK on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital from  9th February 2026, courtesy of Acorn Media International.

“Now open the can and enjoy the spooktacular taste of Diet Phantasma.”

The framing story for this film is Diet Phantasma, written and directed by Bryan M. Ferguson which follows the story of a group of product developers from The Octagon Company, working on a new soft drink to be released for Halloween. Under the watchful eye of C.O.O. Blaine Rothschild (David Haydn –  The Trap) we are introduced to a variety of hapless product testers as they discover that some of the side effects are less than desirable, with increasingly outrageous effects as the film goes on.

“Welcome to our final Halloween on Planet Earth. Before we turn into lame ass tax paying adults.”

The first segment, Coochie Coochie Coo, written and directed by Anna Zlokovic (Appendage), follows the trick or treating adventures of Lacie (Samantha Cochran – The Cure) and her friend Kaleigh (Natalia Montgomery Fernandez), enjoying their final Halloween before college.  This is an excellent and very disturbing cautionary tale about greed and the perils of literally stealing candy from babies. They spot a house that looks promising only to become trapped inside with The Mommy (Elena Musser), who proves they are old enough to know better.

“Enric, forensic evidence shows that you’re not telling the truth. All the corpses’ bones are fractured, crushed.”

Next up is Ut Supra Sic Infra, written and directed by Paco Plaza (REC, Eye For an Eye), the tale of Enric (Teo Planell – Ma Ma, Jefe), the only survivor of a trip with his friends to celebrate Halloween in a creepy old house formerly owned by a medium. Enric is grilled by the police but they don’t believe his story and insist on returning to the scene, where they soon find out that reading strange inscriptions out loud is a bad idea, and never answer a phone that shouldn’t be able to ring.

“What’re they gonna say? No, you’re too old for our sh****y, tiny corporate candy bars? Nobody’s gonna say that.”

The third segment is Fun Size, written and directed by Casper Kelly (Buddy). This is another cautionary tale, this time featuring a group of adult friends, Lauren (Lawson Greyson – Herman), Josh (Riley Nottingham – Strange Creatures), Haley (Jenna Hogan – Share?) and Austin (Jake Ellsworth – 10 Things About Sally). They leave a Halloween party full of booze but no candy and decide to rectify this by trick or treating. They find a bowl of unfamiliar candies outside a house, one of which is weirdly phallic, but when they break the ‘one per person’ rule, things gat very strange indeed, when they find themselves in the sweety basket.

“Yeah, you’re all set. You’re good to go. So thank you for trusting Kaplan Electronics for all your kid printing needs.”

Directed by Alex Ross Perry (Golden Exits), the next segment is Kidprint, a nasty little story feeding into every parents’ worst nightmare. In a town where missing children are commonplace and candy has to handed out by the police on Halloween to keep everyone safe, Kaplan Electronics run by Tim Kaplan (Stephen Gurewitz – The Sweet East) with the help of Bruce (Carl Garrison – Hostile) and Alicia (Shino Nakamichi – Halloween Candy) have a solution. They make Kidprints, documentary videos of children to help with ID and searching for missing kids. But of course, not everything is as it seems.

“It’s your thing. It’s important to you. I’m done being your clown.”

The last but by no means least segment is Home Haunt, written and directed by R.H. Norman and Micheline Pitt-Norman. This tells of what happens when family traditions go sour, Keith (Jeff Harms – Mank) has always set up and run a haunted house exhibit for his neighbourhood, along with son Zack (Noah Diamond – They Don’t Cast Shadows). Now a teenager, Zack has had enough of having his street cred ruined and only agrees to help reluctantly. But when they find an old record “House of Horrors” to play, things get a whole lot more interesting.

“Very good, now run it again. Preferably with little or no g.b.h. Or mortal wounding.”

V/H/S Halloween is a highly entertaining watch, one of my favourites entries into the franchise so far. When tied down to a specific era, quite often not everyone fulfills the brief, but presented with the theme of Halloween, we get lots of diverse ideas. Each one has different filming techniques, concepts and make-up styles but all have one thing in common. Good old fashioned gory, scary, sometimes disgusting horror stories. Well worth adding to your collection.

V/H/S/ Halloween is available to own now on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital