V/H/S Is Finally Getting A Proper Cinema Release

I found out about this while I should have been doing something else, mug of coffee gone cold beside the laptop, and I have not stopped thinking about it since.

If you have never come across it, V/H/S is a horror anthology series that has been running since 2012. Each film stitches together a handful of short found-footage stories from different directors, usually held together by a flimsy framing device about someone finding a stack of unlabelled tapes that they really should not put in the machine. It is cheap, it is uneven on purpose, some segments are brilliant and some are filler, and it has mostly lived on streaming rather than in cinemas. That has always been part of its charm. It felt like something you stumbled across at midnight rather than something you queued up for.

According to Bloody Disgusting, the next entry in the series is getting a proper theatrical release in 2027, with A24 boarding the project. For a franchise that has spent well over a decade as a direct-to-streaming curiosity, that is a genuinely big shift.

Why this feels strange to say out loud

A24 do not attach themselves to just anything. They are the studio behind some of the horror films that actually got people talking about horror as more than jump scares, the ones your friend who "doesn't really watch horror" ends up watching anyway. Putting their name next to V/H/S is a bit like your scruffiest, most unreliable friend turning up to a wedding in a suit that actually fits. I am delighted for it. I am also, and I want to be honest here, a little suspicious.

Part of what makes V/H/S work is that it never had to behave itself. No pressure to look polished, no need to justify a cinema ticket price, nothing at stake beyond whether a segment lands or does not. Streaming let it be scrappy and inconsistent without anyone minding much, because you could just skip to the next short if one did not work for you. A cinema screening does not let you skip anything. Everyone in that room is committed for the whole runtime, segments and all.

What growing up might actually mean here

I do not think this has to be a bad thing. Anthology horror gets a rough deal in cinemas generally, so any sign that a distributor thinks an audience will turn up for one is worth paying attention to. A24 putting proper backing behind it could mean better production value, a stronger line-up of directors, and something that actually gets a fair go in front of an audience instead of being buried in a streaming menu between things nobody chose on purpose.

What I am hoping does not happen is the series getting sanded down to fit a cinema release. Some of what makes V/H/S worth watching is exactly the thing that makes it hard to sell as a big theatrical event: it is messy, it does not always land, and it takes swings a tidier film never would. If A24 keeps that spirit intact while giving it a proper platform, this could be one of the better horror stories of 2027. If it gets smoothed into something safer to justify the ticket price, that would be a shame.

Either way, I will be there on opening night, probably overdressed for a horror anthology screening and definitely the person in the row who jumps at the quiet bits rather than the loud ones. If you have never sat through a V/H/S film before, this might genuinely be the easiest way in. Cinemas do not usually let bad found footage in through the front door, so something about this one must have earned its seat.