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While you wait for V\/H\/S\/85 later this year, V\/H\/S\/99 has hit Blu-ray and DVD. Among the extras for the fifth installment in the found footage horror franchise is an audio commentary moderated by Bloody Disgusting\u2019s own The Boo Crew Podcast hosts Trevor Shand and Leone D\u2019Antonio.<\/p>\n
All six filmmakers participate for their respective segments: Maggie Levin for \u201cShredding,\u201d Johannes Roberts for \u201cSuicide Bid,\u201d Flying Lotus for \u201cOzzy\u2019s Dungeon,\u201d Tyler MacIntyre for \u201cThe Gawkers,\u201d and Vanessa & Joseph Winter for \u201cTo Hell and Back.\u201d<\/p>\n
Here are seven things I learned from the V\/H\/S\/99 commentary\u2026<\/p>\n
Wraparound segments are traditionally used to make an anthology feel of one piece rather than a random collection of shorts, but the producers originally intended to forgo the framing device on V\/H\/S\/99.<\/p>\n
It was later decided to use the increasingly ambitious stop-motion videos made by the 14-year-old Brady (Ethan Pogue) from \u201cThe Gawkers\u201d for the wraparound. Despite fan theories, they were not intentionally designed to foreshadow the segments that follow.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis first one was in the script, but then we ended up kind of expanding this idea to become the wraparound, which is kind of notoriously tricky for V\/H\/S movies and anthologies in general,\u201d MacIntyre explains. \u201cSo we kind of wound up trying something different, just trying to surprise people. Rather than having someone in a room somewhere playing tape one after another, we wanted to try something a little lighter, kind of reflects the overall tone of the movie being a little more comedic.\u201d<\/p>\n
V\/H\/S\/99 features two references to its predecessor, V\/H\/S\/94. The first is a snippet of The Veggie Masher, Steven Kostanski\u2019s faux-commercial, which appears at the beginning of \u201cShredding.\u201d<\/p>\n
The second is a crocheted doll of Raatma, the fan-favorite monster from \u201cStorm Drain,\u201d which pops up in one of the stop-motion wraparound sequences. It was made by artist Tales from the Stitch and borrowed from \u201cStorm Drain\u201d director Chloe Okuno.<\/p>\n
While most of the movie was shot using modern digital cameras, some filmmakers utilized analog cameras to capture the VHS aesthetic.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe, for safety, shot everything on a modern camera, but also we worked a lot on the Sony VX1000, which is like a skating legend camera of its own.\u201d Levin notes of \u201cShredding.\u201d \u201cWhen we brought that in the skate parks it was like a celebrity showed up.\u201d<\/p>\n
She and editor Andy Holton (whose home movies also make an appearance in the segment) then worked to process the footage with analog technology to give it a genuine VHS look. Meanwhile, MacIntyre mentions shooting \u201cThe Gawkers\u201d in Hi8.<\/p>\n
In the wake of Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City\u2018s release, Johannes Roberts was discussing the \u201cwonderfully vitriolic\u201d comments section here on the site with Bloody Disgusting co-founder and V\/H\/S franchise producer Brad Miska. It was during this conversation that Miska offered Roberts the opportunity to helm a V\/H\/S segment as a palette cleanser.<\/p>\n
In addition to citing inspirations like urban legends, Mean Girls, The Breakfast Club, and Carrie, Roberts included subtle nods to several horror films in \u201cSuicide Bid.\u201d<\/p>\n
The filmmaker found the mausoleum while location scouting for a different project and was instantly reminded of Phantasm. \u201cIt was the natural choice to come back there. There\u2019s no real need for them to be in the mausoleum, but I just wanted to shoot in the mausoleum, so we just put a whole section in there.\u201d<\/p>\n
The coffin emblazoned with a glass cross design was inspired by a Wes Craven film. \u201cThe cross came from The Serpent and the Rainbow. That video cover, I used to love that. It makes no fucking sense. Why would you have a glass cross in a coffin? But I always loved that imagery.\u201d<\/p>\n
Although it\u2019s not explicitly stated in the final product, the college that the characters attend is called Gatlin Christian University. Gatlin is the fictional Nebraska town in which Stephen King\u2019s Children of the Corn is set.<\/p>\n
As the ghoulish Giltine, actor Chris Page put a real tarantula in his mouth for it to crawl out. Spider wrangler Diana Terranova had previously pulled off a similar stunt with Billie Eilish for her \u201cyou should see me in a crown\u201d music video, but Roberts details how it didn\u2019t go quite accordingly to plan for \u201cSuicide Bid.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first take, the spider went the wrong way. It went up his throat, not out. That was pretty disturbing. And then the second take, it did what it did, but then it got a bit freaked out. We tested it beforehand but we hadn\u2019t tested it with the makeup, and it got a bit freaked out by the glue and the paint and the smell of all that, so it shed all its little hairy skin. The guy\u2019s whole mouth had spider in it, so we had to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fans of Vanessa & Joseph Winter\u2019s previous film, Deadstream, may notice a cameo from a certain creature in the underworld depicted in \u201cTo Hell and Back.\u201d The puppet is nicknamed Pest, as that\u2019s the title of the couple\u2019s short film in which it first appeared.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re all about recycling creatures,\u201d Venssa chuckles.<\/p>\n
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