EST. 1983DIGITIZED 2026NTSC · 29.97 ◆ SIGNAL LIVE

VHSCREAM

BE KIND. DO NOT REWIND. Horror films, novels, records and artifacts — scored on continuous axes of fear and served back to you by a machine that has been studying your tape. The index is being built in the open; what you can play with below is real and running on six axes.

BUILD YOUR TAPE HOW THE SIGNAL WORKS

105TITLES SCORED

6FEAR AXES LIVE

4MEDIA TYPES

3:14 AMTRANSMISSION HOUR

SCROLL TO SPOOL

01THE SIGNAL

A MACHINE THAT
KNOWS WHAT SCARES YOU

Star ratings are useless. "Horror" is not a genre, it is forty genres wearing a trench coat. VHSCREAM scores every object — film, novel, record, garment, artifact — on continuous axes of fear. Six are live and calibrated; the full set is being built out title by title. Your tape is a vector. So is everything else. The rest is geometry.

RATE TWELVE TAPES

No questionnaire. Twelve short clips and twelve cover scans, and you say more or never. Ninety seconds. The machine reads your flinch, not your opinion.

TRACKING LOCKS

Your answers collapse into a multi-axis signature — dread vs. shock, supernatural vs. human, gore tolerance, era, pace, moral bleakness, and more being added as the index grows.

THE NEXT REEL PLAYS

Every night at 3:14 the index re-sorts itself around you. Films, books, records, shirts, out-of-print magazines — ranked by distance from your tape, each explained in one sentence.

02YOUR TAPE

ADJUST THE TRACKING

A live cut-down of the profile builder, running on the six axes that are calibrated today. Move a dial and the index below re-sorts in real time. Nothing cached. Nothing random.

VHSCREAMT-120 · SP

UNTITLED TAPE

property of — do not return

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TRACKING CONTROL6 AXES LIVE

QUICK PRESETSLOAD A KNOWN TAPE

03THE NEXT REEL

TONIGHT'S RECOMMENDATIONS

Ranked by distance from your tape. The line under each title is the machine explaining itself — no black boxes, no "because you watched."

04RENTAL WALL

EVERYTHING, SHELVED

Five media types under one roof, cross-referenced so a Goblin score sits beside the film it haunts and the reissue you can actually buy. Browse the full index: films, television, books, records — or by the people who made them.

SHELF 02 — FILM & TELEVISION—

SHELF 05 — PRINT & PAPERBACK ROT—

SHELF 07 — AUDIO & SCORE—

05BACK ROOM

THE CURTAINED SECTION

GOODS — NOT YET IN THE INDEX

Shirts, patches, slipcases, wax, enamel and dead-stock paper. Objects will relate to works by what they depict and license, not by a fear score — a mask does not have a pace of fear, and pretending otherwise would be inventing data. That relation is not built yet, so there are no objects in the index today.

Tagged by subgenre, era and print method
Small-press and artist drops surfaced first
Restock alerts pushed to your tape
Affiliate and direct-to-maker, clearly marked

BOOTLEGS

Community lists — the good kind. Any member can spool a bootleg: a themed run across any media, tagged and scored so the index can recommend the list itself to people whose tape matches it.

"Rural dread, no jump scares, under 100 min"
"Books that read like a Carpenter synth line"
"Everything shot on video before 1994"
Lists earn tracking credit when they land

06INSERT TAPE

THE INDEX IS
ALREADY WATCHING

NO SPAM. ONE TRANSMISSION A WEEK, AT 3:14 AM.

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