Get ready for
VHS 2025
October 15 - 19 - downtown Vancouver
This season, VHS is taking over downtown Vancouver! With screenings at Cineplex Cinemas International Village, panels and table reads at Vancouver Film School, parties, networking events and the VHS Golden Tape Awards, VHS is making Vancouver the horror hub of Western Canada.
Passes or tickets to individual screening screenings and events are available below.
Wed, Oct 15th
TALES FROM THE CRYPT:
DEMON KNIGHT
SPECIAL 30TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING
FOLLOWED BY THE VHS 2025 OPENING NIGHT PARTY
Wed, Oct 15th — 7PM - 9PM
Cineplex International Village
88 W Pender St 3rd floor
VHS is celebrating the 30th Anniversary of 1995’s greatest and goriest horror film, Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight. With special guests, Producers Gil Adler & Al Katz, and creator of the Demons themselves, Founder of Masters FX, Todd Masters.
Ex-soldier Frank Brayker (William Sadler) is the guardian of an ancient key that can unlock tremendous evil; the sinister but charming Collector (Billy Zane) is a demon who wants the key so he can initiate the apocalypse
Al Katz & Gil Adler
Thurs, Oct 16th
Thurs, Oct 16th — 6:00 PM - 11:00 PM
TABLE READ: 6 PM - 8 PM — Vancouver Film School, 151 W Cordova St
After the Table Reads, join us at The Pint for a post-event mixer, and Horror Movia Trivia!
Dennis Heaton
Thurs, Oct 16th — 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Cineplex International Village
88 W Pender St 3rd floor
Featuring Special Guest —
Director, Writer, Actor John Adam
When a young woman faces a deadly diagnosis, she seeks dark magic from a witch in the woods - but every cure has costs.
Winner of Fantasia Film Festival’s 2025 Cheval Noire Award.
The short film “Pearls” by Alastair Train will screen ahead of the feature.
The Haunting of Vancouver Film Tour
Ghosts, History & Hollywood
Thurs, Oct 16th — 2:00 PM - 5:30 PM
VHS is partnering with Vancouver Film & TV Tours to bring you the perfect blend of horror cinema and real life ghost stories with the Haunting of Vancouver Film Tour. Only 50 spots available at a special VHS rate of $25/person! Use code VHS25 at checkout (**** under "Add Promo/Discount Code", NOT UNDER GIFT CARD). - GET TICKETS HERE
⏱ Length: 2.5–3 hours | 🚶 Daytime walking tour | 🎭 Led by a local actorDiscover Vancouver’s most haunted and Cinematic sites including the Vancouver Art Gallery, Granville Street’s histoci cinemas, Gastown cobblstones & Steam Clock, Blood Alley’s Scandals & Ghost Stories, and MORE.
The 2025 VHS BC Screenwriters Development Program top 3 short finalists are being performed in a live table read. Join us and a panel of experts as we dive into these scripts and work to develop the best and brightest in up-and-coming local screenwriting talent.
Featuring Panelists: Dennis Heaton (The Order, Murder in a Small Town), Karen Lam (Curse of Willow Song, Armageddon Road), and Graeme Manson (Orphan Black, Snowpiercer).
VHS Table Read Series
Industry Mixer, and Horror Movie Trivia Night
MIXER & TRIVIA: 8 PM - 11 PM — The Pint, 455 Abbott St
Karen Lam
Graeme Manson
Mother of flies
FrI Oct 17th
Fri, Oct 17th — 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Vancouver Film School, 151 W Cordova St
FRI, Oct 17th — 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Cineplex International Village
88 W Pender St 3rd floor
Featuring Special Guest —
Director & Writer Karen Lam
A hopeless romantic with big dreams, Steve is an ex-con hired to chauffeur a mob boss' girlfriend for a night. He's blissfully unaware that his passenger has died and is now possessed by one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
The short film “In Old Ranchos” by Matthew Lucas will screen ahead of the feature.
The Haunting of Vancouver Film Tour
Ghosts, History & Hollywood
Fri, Oct 17th — 2:00 PM - 5:30 PM
VHS is partnering with Vancouver Film & TV Tours to bring you the perfect blend of horror cinema and real life ghost stories with the Haunting of Vancouver Film Tour. Only 50 spots available at a special VHS rate of $25/person! Use code VHS25 at checkout (**** under "Add Promo/Discount Code", NOT UNDER GIFT CARD). - GET TICKETS HERE
⏱ Length: 2.5–3 hours | 🚶 Daytime walking tour | 🎭 Led by a local actorDiscover Vancouver’s most haunted and Cinematic sites including the Vancouver Art Gallery, Granville Street’s histoci cinemas, Gastown cobblstones & Steam Clock, Blood Alley’s Scandals & Ghost Stories, and MORE.
Student short films Block
PROGRAM COMING SOON
SHORT FILMS BLOCK I
FRI, Oct 17th — 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Cineplex International Village
88 W Pender St 3rd floor
Armageddon RoaD
A SPECIAL ADVANCED SCREENING
sAT, Oct 18th
Sat, Oct 18th — 6 PM - 8 PM
Cineplex International Village
88 W Pender St 3rd floor
A struggling all female metal band called “The Virginia Bitches” gets ripped off by a concert promoter. Seeking help they come across a group of cannibals headed by a infamous warlock in the small remote town of Crimson City but get a surprise when they find out the girls have a specific taste for blood.
The short film “Monster Medicine” by Veronica Felicity Johnson will screen ahead of the feature.
How to make a horror
VHS 2025 PANEL SERIES
SAT, Oct 18th — 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Vancouver film school - 151 W. Cordova St
SHORT FILMS BLOCK II
Sat, Oct 18th — 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Cineplex International Village
88 W Pender St 3rd floor
DEVOUR
SHORT FILMS BLOCK III
SAT, Oct 18th — 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Cineplex International Village
88 W Pender St 3rd floor
Sat — 6 PM - 8 PM
Cineplex International Village
88 W Pender St 3rd floor
After a debt-collector finds a portal to hell in a washing machine at his local laundromat, he’s propositioned into feeding it sinners to save his neighbor’s soul, maybe even at the expense of his own.
The short film “We Live In the Dark” by Aaron Dawson will screen ahead of the feature.
portal to hell
SUN, Oct 19th
Sut, Oct 19th — 6:30 PM - 8 PM
Cineplex International Village
88 W Pender St 3rd floor
Join us as we present awards for the best of the fest across over 20 categories.
DETAILS AND NOMINEES COMING SOON
Horror…so hot right now
VHS 2025 PANEL SERIES
sun, oct 19th — 10:45 aM - 12:00 PM
Vancouver film school - 151 w. cordova st
SHORT FILMS BLOCK IV
Sat, Oct 19th — 12:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Cineplex International Village
88 W Pender St 3rd floor
vhs 2025
GOLDEN TAPES AWARD CEREMONY
Sun, Oct 19th — 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Cineplex International Village
88 W Pender St 3rd floor
Foreigner tells the story of Yasamin Karimi, a Persian teen desperate to fit in at her new high school in 2004. When she dyes her hair blonde to blend in, she unknowingly unleashes a demon tied to the parts of herself she’s trying to erase.
Blending horror with heart, Foreigner explores the terrifying cost of assimilation and the haunting power of identity denied.
The short film “Leave Me Alone” by Shehroze Khan will screen ahead of the feature.
foreigner
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