VHS: Home Haunt

"Home Haunt"

Credits
Title:	"Home Haunt"
Directed by:	Micheline Pitt-Norman; R.H. Norman
Written by:	Micheline Pitt-Norman; R.H. Norman
Produced by:	Roy Lee; Steven Schneider; Derek Dauchy; Josh Goldbloom; Michael Schreiber; Brad Miska; Emily Gotto; Nicholas Lazo; Samuel Zimmerman; Ben Ross; Rami Yasin; Adam Boorstin; Kyle Holden; Johnny Starke; Jason Korstad; Meagan Gillett
Cinematography:	Sean McDaniel
Edited by:	R.H. Norman; Dylan Hoang
Production
Production:	Bloody Disgusting Cinepocalypse Productions Spooky Pictures
Distributors:	Shudder
Released:	October 3rd, 2025
Country:	USA
Language:	English
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"Home Haunt" is an American film short. It is part of the V/H/S film series and is the fifth and final stand-alone vignette in the 2025 film V/H/S/Halloween, not counting the framing sequence. It was written and directed by the husband & wife team of Micheline Pitt-Norman and R.H. Norman. This short stars Jeff Harms as Keith, Sarah Nicklin as Nancy, and Noah Diamond as Zack, with a guest appearance by legendary special effects artist Rick Baker.

Plot[]

Keith loves putting on his family's annual haunted house event, which is the highlight of his year and an extreme passion for him. He and wife Nancy's son Zack used to love the even when he was younger, but now that he is a teenager, he considers it and his father an embarrassment. Keith tries to cajole Zack into participating one more time, but Zack refuses. As it turns out, Nancy finds a way of blackmailing Keith into being a part of it, and he is not happy about that.

Keith brings Zack along with him to a local Halloween-themed retail store. Keith videotapes all of the wares even though the proprietor warns him against doing so. Keith sees a roped off area meant for employees only and sneaks inside to see what else they have. He finds a vintage vinyl record of Halloween creep music. Excited, Keith decides to steal the vinyl, but leaves some money on the counter to pay for it.

Keith, Nancy and Zack host the grand opening of their haunted house and there is an impressive line of people waiting to get inside. One of the patrons is a reluctant customer named Rich, who is only there because his wife forced him to go. Rick scoffs and rolls his eyes at every moment, telling Keith that all of his ghostly attractions look like "shit".

Keith brings the guests into a room where they begin to play the record that he stole from the Halloween store. The haunting sounds play for only a moment, then the record suddenly bursts into flame. Various items in the room begin moving about of their own accord, and the visitors can see that even Keith and Nancy are surprised by this.

Suddenly, and without warning, the spooky props spring to life. A white sheet ghost wraps itself around Rich and twists his body until his neck and spine snap. Other attractions spring to life and begin attacking the other guests. Chaos runs rampant as Keith and Nancy try to help people escape from the haunted house. Zack follows along behind them carrying a video camera, capturing the entire madness on tape. One of the ghoul figures leaps out and takes an axe to Rich's wife, Judy, cleaving her head in two. Nancy grabs the axe from it and grapples with the creature as Zack runs out of the room. More decorations spring to life and begin savagely murdering the other patrons, including children.

Zack, Keith and Nancy manage to survive and escape outside the house, only for a witch to fly out and grab Zack's camera. The witch proceeds to massacre children who are out trick-or-treating. The entrance to the haunted house, which is shaped like a monster's jaws and hands, begins to come to life and break free from the building as the footage ends.

Cast[]

Actor

Role

Keith

Zack

Nancy

Zack (7-year-old)

Rich

Judy

Antique store clerk

Samantha (Ballerina girl)

Matt Dizon

Bumblebee boy

Sean Berube

The executioner

Layton Khan

Billy (Kid eaten by ghost)

Manuel Raphael Lozano

Bumblebee dad

Monica Evans

Ashley (Scalped teenage girl)

Isabella Feliciana

Brittany (Electric chair girl)

Lize Johnston

Witch/Female, Rotting ghoul

Flying witch

Cat girl's mom

Male rotting ghoul

Mummy boy

Girl in cat costume

Ballerina girl double

Notes & Trivia[]

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This short was filmed specifically for the V/H/S film series, which is to say that it did not previously exist as an independent project that was later incorporated into the series.
Rick Baker, who plays Rick, is a celebrated special effects artist, who is known for creating the werewolf from An American Werewolf in London as well as the werewolf from the 2010 remake of The Wolfman, for which he won the Oscar in 2011 for the category of Best Achievement in Makeup. Baker's demeanor in this film short as a sour party pooper is intended to be ironic, as Baker hosts his own haunted house at his home every year.
Filmmakers R.H. Norman and Micheline Pitt-Norman are also known for crafting the 2021 film short Grummy, which starred The Haunting of Hill House and M3GAN child actress Violet McGraw.
Director and co-writer Micheline Pitt is credited as Micheline Pitt-Norman in this film short. R.H. Norman and Micheline Pitt were married on May 6th, 2017.
Actor Manuel Rafael Lozano, who plays a father dressed as a bumblebee, is credited as Manuel Raphael Lozano in this film short. Lozano is also known for playing Lieutenant Ibarra in Teen Wolf: The Movie in 2023.
The name of the record that Keith steals is called "Halloween Horrors".
Other examples of a vinyl record prompting disastrous results include Rob Zombie's The Lords of Salem from 2012 the "The Devil's Vinyl" episode of Constantine from 2014, and Evil Dead Rise from 2023.
Recording justification: Zack refuses to put down the camera when the monsters start killing, telling his dad that people need to know what happened so they don't blame him for the murders committed by the monsters.

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