Overview

• The eighth V/H/S installment is now streaming on Shudder following its October 3 release.
• The anthology is built around Bryan M. Ferguson’s wraparound, Diet Phantasma, which multiple reviews describe as repetitive with an underwhelming payoff.
• Critics frequently single out Home Haunt and Alex Ross Perry’s Kidprint as highlights, noting Kidprint’s grounded inspiration in the 1990s Kidprint program.
• Home Haunt features a cameo from SFX legend Rick Baker and showcases practical creature work, with the filmmakers detailing low-budget kit-bashing and in-camera rigs.
• Several shorts lean into gross-out humor, including Fun Size and Coochie Coochie Coo, while overall assessments say the collection falls short of stronger recent entries like V/H/S/Beyond and V/H/S/85.