Sundance highlight ‘V/H/S’ gets picked up by Magnet

Sundance is coming to an end in Park City, Utah. One film that made a huge impact on Sunday night was the found-footage anthology V/H/S directed by Adam Wingard, Glenn McQuaid, Radio Silence (a collaborative group), David Bruckner, Joe Swanberg and Ti West. For those of you on Twitter (follow us @destroythebrain), some of those film geeks out in the snowy city that were lucky enough to get in for the premiere on Sunday night splooged at how good it is. With a phrase like “One of the scariest movies I’ve seen in recent memory” being touted by Drew McWeeny’s review on HitFix, V/H/S hit a very high expectation on my radar. It was already there with Wingard, McQuaid, West and even Bruckner involved anyway.

Magnolia Pictures’ genre arm Magnet Releasing picked up the film for over $1 million dollars according to The Hollywood Reporter. Magnet, while bad for VHS tapes, plans on distributing the film via VOD and a theatrical release 30 days after the on demand premiere. No word on what month this will happen but we do know it will be released this year.

Synopsis

When a group of petty criminals is hired by a mysterious party to retrieve a rare piece of found footage from a rundown house in the middle of nowhere, they soon realize that the job isn’t going to be as easy as they thought. In the living room, a lifeless body holds court before a hub of old television sets, surrounded by stacks upon stacks of VHS tapes. As they search for the right one, they are treated to a seemingly endless number of horrifying videos, each stranger than the last.