The frame narrative focuses on a criminal gang who film their exploits, which include smashing the walls, windows, and light fixtures of an abandoned house and sexually assaulting a woman in a parking lot. Written by Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett.Each short film is linked together with the concept of found footage (each segment is from the VHS tapes found in the room).

The film is presented as an anthology of short horror films, built into a frame narrative which acts as its own short horror film. What can we put here? What can we put there? You know, what would amp it up here? So it was a living project. It became a 'fill-in-the-hole' type project. Which is kind of a reverse of how you're supposed to do a movie like this. So we just went with the decided upon streamlined story and just let the filmmakers go do their thing. In terms of the movie itself getting green lit - the storyline that runs through the whole movie was something that we had originally discussed. It was like, 'If you like this, go do your thing.' They pitched us their ideas, then came to us with treatments and scripts. All of the relationships came through the long history of Bloody Disgusting.įor 'V/H/S,' we went to people that I have a relationship with via Bloody Disgusting - a group of trusted filmmakers who we thought would want to take part in this. In an interview with IndieWire, producer Brad Miska revealed the process in which they developed V/H/S, which included a 'trust-fall' style of filmmaking.

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