If you loved The Black Phone, try V/H/S/85

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. V/H/S/85 has roughly 34.9× fewer votes than The Black Phone — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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The Black Phone

2022 · dir. Scott Derrickson

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V/H/S/85

2023 · dir. Scott Derrickson, David Bruckner, Mike P. Nelson, Gigi Saul Guerrero, Natasha Kermani

What they share

Both films are directed by Scott Derrickson, and they both carry the dread mood tag, and they sit in Horror / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Black Phone, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

dread

What V/H/S/85 is

Pennsylvania, late fall. A shattered tube TV. A news crew unearths snuff films, each worse than the last. A scientist performs gruesome work. A child's birthday party goes wrong. Remember when anthology horror movies were actually scary?

If you loved The Black Phone, try V/H/S/85

The Black Phone

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What they share

What V/H/S/85 is

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