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.

FESTIVAL PASSES

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$259.50
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$199.00
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$165.00
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$70.00

Includes advanced screening of

shelby oaks

All purchased VHS 2025 Festival Passes will also include a ticket to a special advance screening of SHELBY OAKS on Wednesday, October 22 at The Rio Theatre in partnership with the Rio and Elevation Pictures.

Actress Camille Sullivan will be joining to intro the film.

Directed by Chris Stuckmann.

A woman’s obsessive search for her missing sister leads her into a terrifying mystery at the hands of an unknown evil. With Camille Sullivan, Brendan Sexton III, and Michael Beach.

Camille Sullivan

SINGLE TICKETS and SCHEDULE

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, stars William Sadler & Sherrie Rose, Producers Gil Adler & Alan Katz, and creator of the Demons themselves, Founder of Masters FX, Todd Masters.
Q&A hosted by Gigi Saul Guerrero. 

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

William Sadler

Sherrie Rose

Alan Katz & Gil Adler

Thurs, Oct 16th

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.


VHS Table Read Series

Industry Mixer, and Horror Movie Trivia Night

Thurs, Oct 16th — 6:00 PM - 11:00 PM

TABLE READ: 6 PM - 8 PM — Vancouver Film School, 151 W Cordova St

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).

Dennis Heaton

Karen Lam

Graeme Manson

MIXER & TRIVIA: 8 PM - 11 PM — The Pint, 455 Abbott St

After the Table Reads, join us at The Pint for a post-event mixer, and Horror Movia Trivia!


Mother of flies

BC PREMIERE

Thurs, Oct 16th
Doors at 5:45 pm
Screening at 6:30 PM followed by Q&A
Cineplex International Village
88 W Pender St 3rd floor

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.

With Special Guest —
Director, Writer, Actor John Adam


DEATHGASM 2: GOREMAGEDDON

CANADIAN PREMIERE

Thurs, Oct 16th
Doors at 8:15 PM
Screening at 9:00 PM
Cineplex International Village
88 W Pender St 3rd floor

The long-awaited sequel to 2015’s DEATHGASM has finally arrived - VHS 2025 proudly presents the Canadian Premiere of DEATHGASM II: GOREMAGEDDON!

When Brodie, a washed-up metalhead, resurrects his dead bandmates for a battle-of-the-bands, the result unleashes riffs, gore, and apocalyptic carnage only DEATHGASM can deliver.

Written and Directed by Jason Howden
Starring Milo Cawthorne, Kimberley Crossman, and James Joshua Blake

Brought to life by the unwavering support of its global fanbase, Deathgasm II exists thanks to a wildly successful crowdfunding campaign – proving once again that true metal never dies, it just gets louder with a little help from its friends.

FrI Oct 17th

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

PROGRAM

Fri, Oct 17th — 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Vancouver Film School
151 W Cordova St


Dead Time:

VHS SHORts Program I

FRI, Oct 17th — 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Cineplex International Village
88 W Pender St 3rd floor


Armageddon RoaD

A SPECIAL ADVANCED SCREENING

FRI, Oct 17th — 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Cineplex International Village
88 W Pender St 3rd floor

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.

Featuring Special Guest —
Director & Writer Karen Lam

sAT, Oct 18th

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

Featuring acclaimed filmmakers: Eli Craig (Tucker & Dale vs Evil, Clown in a Cornfield) and Zach Lipovsky (Final Destination: Bloodlines, Freaks), Sabrina Pitre (Clown in a Cornfield, Final Destination: Bloodlines) and Jordan Waunch (Terror/Forming, Sisters of Sorrow). This panel dives into some of the best moments in horror films and deconstructs them, offering insight to listeners as to how some of the most impactful moments in horror films are achieved.

Zach Lipovsky

Eli Craig

Jordan Waunch

Sabrina Pitre

Moderated by:
Meghan Hemingway


ECHOES FROM THE VOID

VHS Shorts Program II

Sat, Oct 18th — 12:45 PM - 2:45 PM
Cineplex International Village
88 W Pender St 3rd floor


THE EDGE OF SANITY

VHS SHORTs Program III

SAT, Oct 18th — 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Cineplex International Village
88 W Pender St 3rd floor

“Monster Medicine”


portal to hell

Sat, oct 18 — 5:15 PM - 7:30 PM
Cineplex International Village
88 W Pender St 3rd floor

Director Scott Hansen, Devour

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.


DEVOUR

CANADIAN PREMIERE

Sat, oct 18 — 8:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Cineplex International Village
88 W Pender St 3rd floor

Get ready to turn up the terror when Devour makes its VHS appearance – a wild, blood‑soaked horror ride from Scott B. Hansen (Bad Candy) that pits raw metal, vampirism, and cannibal cults against each other in one night of horror.

An all‑female death‑metal band called “The Virginia Bitches” is stranded in a remote town ruled by a Warlock and crawling with cannibals. What starts as a search for help becomes a desperate struggle for survival, with brutal creature effects (led by Wayne Anderson), supernatural horrors, and heavy‑metal intensity. Devour delivers visceral thrills and macabre fun you won’t see coming. Director Scott Hansen and writer Desiree Connell will be in attendance for an exclusive Q&A to follow the screening.

The short film “Monster Medicine” by Veronica Felicity Johnson will screen ahead of the feature.

Veronica Felicity Johnson

SUN, Oct 19th

Horror…so hot right now:

Positioning Your Film in the Market

VHS 2025 PANEL SERIES

sun, oct 19th — 10:45 aM - 12:00 PM
Vancouver film school - 151 w. cordova st

A must-attend for emerging filmmakers, this panel brings together industry pros from Raven Banner, The Coven, and Pink Buffalo Films to demystify the road from production to global release and everything in between. Let’s talk about the business side of this creative profession.

Shawn Angelski

Kirk Cooper

Moderated by
Dennis Heaton

Anelle Dehghani


WHAT GOES AROUND

VHS SHORTS PROGRAM IV

Sun, Oct 19th — 12:45 PM - 2:45 PM
Cineplex International Village
88 W Pender St 3rd floor


foreigner

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.

Director Ava Marie Safai


vhs 2025

GOLDEN TAPES AWARD CEREMONY

SuN, 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

VHS 2025 Supporters

(John) Carpenter Supporters


(wes) Craven Supporters

The Alan and Gwendoline

Pyatt Foundation


(Guillermo) del toro Supporters

The Lohn

Foundation


(jordan) peele Supporters


Community Partners

Volunteeers

VHs is looking for pre-screeners, script readers, and event support.

Apply Here!