Following yesterday’s news that Magnet was moving ahead on a follow-up to one horror anthology, ABCs of Death, we’ve got a new look at one of their others, V/H/S/2. A sequel to last year’s project, this one brings together Simon Barrett and Adam Wingard (You’re Next), Edúardo Sanchez and Gregg Hale (The Blair Witch Project), Gareth Evans (The Raid), Jason Eisener (Hobo With a Shotgun) and more.
As we said in our Sundance review, this time around we follow “a pair of private investigators searching for a missing student stumble upon a similar house and, low and behold, find more videotapes to watch. While this narrative gimmick seems perfectly suited for the horror genre, there is a lack of cohesion that makes this sequel feel like a half-baked follow-up.” This new red band trailer still packs a handful of bloody thrills and one can see it below.
Synopsis:
Inside a darkened house looms a column of TVs littered with VHS tapes, a pagan shrine to forgotten analog gods. The screens crackle and pop endlessly with monochrome vistas of static—white noise permeating the brain and fogging concentration. But you must fight the urge to relax: this is no mere movie night. Those obsolete spools contain more than just magnetic tape. They are imprinted with the very soul of evil.
From the demented minds that brought you last year’s V/H/S comes S-VHS, an all-new anthology of dread, madness, and gore. This follow-up ventures even further down the demented path blazed by its predecessor, discovering new and terrifying territory in the genre. This is modern horror at its most inventive, shrewdly subverting our expectations about viral videos in ways that are just as satisfying as they are sadistic. The result is the rarest of all tapes—a second generation with no loss of quality.
V/H/S/2 arrives on VOD on June 6th and hits theaters on July 12th.