October Horror Challenge - V/H/S: Halloween (2025)

 

Synopsis

Six tales of Halloween terror.

Review

This film follows the franchises standard format. There are six found footage short films with one framing short. 

Diet Phantasma

The film's framing short is framed as research test videos for a soda company. Throughout the film the test subjects meet escalating horrific ends because of the special ingredient in the formula. The pop deaths are pretty cool.

Coochie Coochie Coo

Two teens spend their last Halloween before they go off to college together. They find themselves trying to escape a spirit seeking to make them into children. This one is pretty disturbing and Mommy would make a great legend to add to your game.

Ut Supra Sic

Set in Spain, the survivor of a mysterious mass murder is taken back to the place  it occurred to help the police solve the case. This is one is a standard but solid possession short. 

Fun Size

When they take more than one candy from a bowl a group two couples find themselves trapped in a horrific candy factory. This one is my favorite. The candy mascot, Fun Size, is super creepy and the candy is bizarre. The deaths are particularly fucked up and gross. There is a fun meta joke with this one. Two of the characters are dressed as found-footage horror filmmakers. 

Kidprint

A gentleman named Tim creates videos to help with the missing and murdered children epidemic in his community and learns he has a connection to the deaths. Of  all the shorts this one is distressing. The subject matter is disturbing and the ending is extra upsetting. I had problems finishing it.

Home Haunt

This short has a great premise. A Halloween obsessed father plays a stolen Halloween record that brings his haunt to life. There are some fun deaths in those one, though like Kidprint, there are murdered children, so it will be too much for some. 

In Your Game

Diet Phantasma

Made with real poltergeists, this soda is deadly.  Anyone drinking it must make a difficult fortitude, constitution/poison/death save to avoid being killed by the Diet Phantasma in a particularly brutal way. Those that make a successful save are possessed and pliable to suggestion. Anyone that dies from drinking the possessed pop will rise as a zombie.

October Horror Movie Challenge 2025 

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