The V/H/S franchise is cranking up the volume. V/H/S/MIXTAPE, the latest entry in the found-footage horror series, drops on Shudder this Friday with a lineup that treats music and sound as weapons of pure fear.

This time, the anthology goes all-in on audio terror. Four segments explore how rhythm, noise, and music can haunt, possess, and destroy. Directors Ernest Dickerson, RZA, David Moreau, and Renee Zhan each bring their own spin on sonic dread.

Highlights include “Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance,” where a studio reboots a cursed puppet show with help from Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. In “The Music of Mr. Sze,” Dickerson follows a film student documenting a tormented musician’s reclusive life. RZA’s “Death Tone” centers on a sound engineer chasing her late father’s vision of the ultimate track. And in “Heartbeat,” a pair of YouTube urbex influencers get trapped in a decommissioned military facility used for sonic experiments.

Tying it all together, GWAR hosts an MTV-style wrap segment from hell, complete with music videos directed by Tobias Forge and Flying Lotus.

Early reviews call it tailor-made for October marathons, with Daily Dead praising its “amp-bursting bang” and SlashFilm noting the franchise has finally found its groove.

For horror fans ready to let sound mess with their heads, this one’s dialed in.