V H S 85 2023 (2026)

The genius of V/H/S/85 is its understanding of the year itself. 1985 was a hinge point: Reagan-era optimism colliding with the Satanic Panic, the rise of home video (and the “video nasty” moral crusade), and the creeping awareness that technology could betray you. The characters in these segments are not jaded; they trust the camera. They believe recording something makes it real, containable, evidence. The film’s ultimate cruelty is showing that the camera does not protect you. It simply ensures someone will watch you die. Later. In a basement. On a cracked 19-inch screen.

★★★★½ (4.5/5) Best watched with the lights off and your hand hovering over the eject button. V H S 85 2023

And it is terrifying.

Watch it alone. On an old TV, if you can find one. And when the tracking wavers during the quiet parts… do not adjust the picture. The genius of V/H/S/85 is its understanding of

In the sprawling, grimy graveyard of modern horror franchises, the V/H/S series has always been the strange, feral cousin—the one you don’t invite to dinner but can’t stop watching through your fingers. By 2023, the series had already time-traveled through the 1990s ( V/H/S/94 ) and the 2000s ( V/H/S/99 ). But with V/H/S/85 , the anthology didn’t just revisit a decade; it dissected its rotting heart. They believe recording something makes it real, containable,