The V/H/S/ franchise, under the aegis of streamer Shudder, gets cranked up once again for another motley anthology of lo-fi tales, this time finally getting round to a collection based around the theme of Halloween. Cue trick-or-treating going horribly wrong, deadly new soft-drink trials, a police procedural investigation of a murderous Halloween party seance, a very unusual bowl of candy, a town suffering a spate of child murders and a neighbourhood House Of Horrors that turns all too real. As is often the case with these packages, the short films vary from the silly/cheesy to the rather unpleasant, the relentless use of shaky-cam and The Blair Witch Project tropes are patience-testing and there is a lot of running around dark corridors screaming, but this is one of the more coherent, consistent and reasonably watchable collections in the V/H/S/ series.
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