The official poster for V/H/S/99, the fifth instalment in the popular indie horror franchise, has been released by Shudder. In the vein of the previous V/H/S movies, V/H/S/99 is a found-footage anthology film that will feature numerous short horror stories from a wide variety of directors, with a wraparound plot revolving around a seedy adolescent. As far as we know, this is the only V/H/S film in which none of the usual franchise filmmakers has returned to the helm. To direct V/H/S/99, we have Flying Lotus, Maggie Levin, Tyler MacIntyre, Joseph Winter, and Vanessa Winter. The poster is simple yet scary, and it was designed by poster design expert Creepy Duck Design, who tweeted it out. The poster portrays a metropolis being overwhelmed by some type of apocalyptic event, while a skull rests at the top of the image.
The skull contains Canon camera lenses instead of eyes. The slogan “VHS Goes To Hell” appears on the poster. This official poster hints that the film will include an apocalyptic tone, considering it is set twenty years ago, at the start of the new century. V/H/S/99 was produced by Cinepocalypse’s Josh Goldbloom and Bloody Disgusting’s Brad Miska. Modern horror director David Bruckner and filmmaking team Radio Silence also serve as producers for V/H/S/99, with James Harris. Luke Mullen, Tyler Lofton, Isabelle Hahn, Verona Blue, Dashiell Derrickson, and Tybee Diskin presently make up part of the film’s cast. A number of today’s most interesting horror directors are included in V/H/S/99. Roberts is known for helming a number of acclaimed horror films, such as 47 Meters Down and its sequel 47 Meters Down Uncaged, Strangers: Prey at Night, and Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City.
MacIntyre helmed the 2017 horror comedy Tragedy Girls as well as an episode of Hulu’s anthology series Into the Dark, a project Levin also was a director on. Joseph and Vanessa Winter directed Shudder’s next festival favourite Deadstream, while Flying Lotus is a musical artist turned director who oversaw the gross-out flick Kuso. In 2012, the initial V/H/S picture was an unexpected critical and economic success, generating about $2 million against a modest budget of roughly $242 thousand. V/H/S/2 was published the following year with comparable popularity, but 2014’s V/H/S: Viral was regarded as a severe deterioration.
With its release on Shudder in October of last year, V/H/S/94, a relaunch of the franchise, was met with praise and marked the service’s biggest opening for a film at that point. V/H/S: Video Horror Shorts, a lesser-known Snapchat miniseries, is also a spin-off of the franchise. On October 20th, V/H/S/99 will be available exclusively on Shudder.