James Cullen Bressack is going back to his horror roots with I Have Proof, a new psychological horror movie shot entirely on vintage VHS-C.
James Cullen Bressack is going back to the kind of horror that helped establish his name – only this time he’s taking the whole thing back to VHS.
The prolific filmmaker’s new psychological horror movie I Have Proof was shot entirely on vintage VHS-C, ditching modern digital cameras in favor of the battered, imperfect look of consumer videotape. and the movie will make its world premiere at Fantastic Fest 2026 as part of the festival’s Burnt Ends lineup.
And if the first look is anything to go by, Bressack isn’t using VHS as some lazy retro filter slapped over otherwise conventional footage – the movie was actually captured on the format.
I Have Proof Goes All In On VHS
Bressack wrote, directed and produces I Have Proof, which is described as a psychologically charged horror movie about a deteriorating sense of reality, and right now, the actual plot is being kept pretty tightly under wraps, although the Fantastic Fest description gives us one rather simple clue – Alex has proof, and he wants you to see it.
Larsen Deane plays Alex, with Lilly Van Der Meer, Kelly Lynn Reiter and B.J. Hendricks also starring, where the movie has a reported runtime of 76 minutes and will premiere at Fantastic Fest as part of the Burnt Ends selection.
Bressack Is Going Back To His Horror Roots
For Bressack, I Have Proof represents a return to horror after spending roughly a decade working heavily in action and other genres – his more recent credits include films such as Darkness of Man, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, along with projects featuring Bruce Willis and Mel Gibson, but efore that, Bressack was much more closely associated with rougher, low-budget horror, including To Jennifer, Hate Crime and Bethany.
The idea for I Have Proof reportedly came after Bressack saw a Letterboxd review from someone who liked his earlier work and said they missed the grungy horror films he used to make, so rather than ignoring the comment, he apparently decided to make another one – Bressack has described the project as a return to raw, stripped-down horror, with the filmmaking deliberately favoring texture and imperfection instead of the polished look of modern digital productions.
The Movie Was Actually Shot On VHS-C
Bressack also reportedly bought around 30 used VHS-C tapes through eBay, including old home-video tapes, and used them for the production, so the movie wasn’t shot digitally and then given a VHS-style treatment afterward.
Bressack has also framed the decision as a deliberate reaction to the increasingly polished and digital nature of filmmaking, describing the analog approach as something human and difficult for AI to simply reproduce.
The first image from the movie gives us Larsen Deane as Alex, although it doesn’t reveal much about what he’s actually going through.
The whole premise appears to revolve around Alex desperately trying to convince people that he has discovered or recorded something real while his own grip on reality begins to fall apart.
Hopefully the movie has more going on than simply “look, old VHS footage.”
I Have Proof Heads To Fantastic Fest
I Have Proof will have its world premiere at Fantastic Fest 2026 in Austin, Texas, where it is screening in the Burnt Ends section, where the festival runs from September 17 through September 24, with Bressack’s movie listed as a 76-minute U.S. production.
There’s currently very little else being revealed about the movie, including what exactly Alex thinks he has proof of.
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