V/H/S/Halloween has debuted on Rotten Tomatoes with an astounding rating. The brand new film is the eighth installment within the discovered footage anthology franchise, which kicked off in 2012 and likewise consists of the spinoffs Siren (2016) and Children vs. Aliens (2022). The latest installment within the flagship franchise was 2024’s V/H/S/Beyond.
V/H/S/Halloween options 5 segments and a wraparound narrative which might be all set throughout the titular vacation. The filmmakers behind these horror tales are music video director Bryan M. Ferguson, Anna Zlokovic (Appendage), Paco Plaza ([REC]), Casper Kelly (Grownup Swim Yuletide Log), Alex Ross Perry (Her Odor), and the duo Micheline Pitt-Norman and R.H. Norman (Beauty).
Rotten Tomatoes has now aggregated sufficient critics’ critiques for the brand new horror film to earn an official rating on the Tomatometer forward of its Shudder debut on October 3. Whereas the rating may fluctuate as extra critiques are added, because of 18 completely different critics, V/H/S/Halloween has earned an ideal 100% rating on the time of writing.
Whereas some critics’ particular person scores are mixed-positive (it has earned 4 3 out of 5 scores), quite a lot of them had positively glowing reactions. V/H/S/Halloween has earned scores of 4 out of 5, 8.5 out of 10, and an ideal 5 out of 5 (from Daily Dead‘s Emily von Seele, who referred to as it “one other win for the sequence“).
What This Means For V/H/S/Halloween
Not solely is that this good 100% rating spectacular in and of itself, it makes Halloween the highest-rated of the V/H/S movies. Whereas six of the 9 earlier installments (together with the spinoff titles) have earned Recent scores on the platform, the very best that any earlier entry has reached is 90%, a rating that each 94 and Past earned.
Under, see a breakdown of how the brand new installment compares to each film within the franchise:
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Title |
RT Rating |
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V/H/S (2012) |
55% |
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V/H/S/2 (2013) |
70% |
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V/H/S: Viral (2014) |
32% |
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Siren (2016) |
68% |
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V/H/S/94 (2021) |
90% |
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V/H/S/99 (2022) |
75% |
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Children vs. Aliens (2022) |
59% |
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V/H/S/85 (2023) |
74% |
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V/H/S/Past (2024) |
90% |
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V/H/S/Halloween (2025) |
100% |
If it manages to retain this good rating when extra critiques are added, Halloween may grow to be the fourth film from the V/H/S franchise to grow to be Licensed Recent on Rotten Tomatoes after 94, 99, and Past. This cements the 2020s as the strongest interval but for the flagship department of the horror franchise.
Our Take On The V/H/S/Halloween Rotten Tomatoes Rating
It finally stays to be seen if V/H/S/Halloween will engender the identical stage of enthusiasm amongst audiences because it has with critics. To date, the Popcornmeter rating of each installment has been decrease than its Tomatometer rating. Nonetheless, the brand new film has began so robust that it may probably break a document with audiences as nicely.
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October 3, 2025
- Runtime
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115 Minutes
- Director
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Paco Plaza, Casper Kelly, Alex Ross Perry, Bryan M Ferguson, Anna Zlokovic, R.H. Norman
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Isabella Feliciana
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