A New Movie Is Going Straight to VHS in 2026, and That Is Exactly the Point

Robert dos Santos is making movie fans do something most new releases try to avoid: find the machine first. His debut feature, This Is How ... Read More ...

The First Straight-to-VHS Movie in 20 Years Is a Deeply Human Gesture

Well, it’s only available on VHS, reportedly making it the first straight-to-VHS film release in some two decades. The Guardian just published an interview with Dos Santos that makes for fascinating ...

VHS releases, 6-hour lines: Indie film's answer to Netflix

From a straight-to-VHS release to Criterion's six-hour lines and Portland's one-night-only cinema, audiences are discovering ...
Variety

Behind the Movie Claiming to Be the First Straight-to-VHS Release in 20 Years — And Why It’s a ‘Middle Finger’ to AI

There was once a time when “straight-to-VHS” was a slur, code for largely terrible bargain bucket movies made for next to nothing yet sporting wildly-overpromising covers. Today, it’s not even a thing ...
The Guardian

‘I’m asking people to do a lot, but that’s what it means to be a human’: why one man made the first straight-to-video movie in 20 years

Robert dos Santos decided to make his first film after being held at gunpoint once too often. The resulting drama, only available on VHS, is a broadside against AI: ‘Someone once said that if your mum ...

What was the first straight-to-video movie?

The first straight-to-video movie is a little-known film, but it made history by changing the home video market forever.