'V/H/S' Red-Band Trailer

The horror anthology is making a comeback, and at Sundance this year a five-story film called V/H/S scared the crap out of many viewers. (Including Peter.) Combining the talents of of Adam Wingard (You're Next, A Horrible Way to Die), Simon Barrett (You're Next, Dead Birds), Ti West (The House of the Devil, The Innkeepers), David Bruckner (The Signal), Joe Swanberg (Silver Bullets), and Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), V/H/S uses a wraparound story to frame several low-fi tales of horror.

Now a red-band trailer has been released, and it gives a great impression of what festival audiences have been seeing for the past few months. There's some weird stuff in here.

This is a real red-band trailer, with blood, language and nudity, and probably what people who've seen the film would call spoilers as well. But not having seen V/H/S, it's difficult to put all these images into context, and it doesn't feel like it is showing too much.

Yahoo premiered the trailer. The film opens on VOD August 31 and will hit some theaters on October 5.

When a group of petty criminals is hired by a mysterious party to retrieve a rare piece of found footage from a rundown house in the middle of nowhere, they soon realize that the job isn't going to be as easy as they thought. In the living room, a lifeless body holds court before a hub of old television sets, surrounded by stacks upon stacks of VHS tapes. As they search for the right one, they are treated to a seemingly endless number of horrifying videos, each stranger than the last.