The V/H/S/ franchise may not have produced a single across-the-board masterpiece, but across its eight installments, it’s delivered more than its fair share of memorably monstrous sights, be it a winged seductress tearing through a hotel room full of creeps, a man visiting a nightmarish alternate-universe version of his home, or a journey through Hell guided by a malevolent demon.

As far as horror anthologies go, it’s crafted enough hits to make the misses forgivable, and that continues to be the case with its latest, whose vignettes are uneven and occasionally repetitive and yet, at their best, deliver the sort of macabre mood and mayhem that make the series an enduring spooky-season pleasure.

Like its predecessors, V/H/S/ Halloween, which premieres Oct. 3 on Shudder, has a framing nar

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