VHS Horror Tale ‘Posthumous’ Adjusts the Tracking on Generational Trauma

Late on her birthday, a troubled young woman shows up at her father’s house, seeking a place to crash after a fight with her boyfriend. Dad’s asleep, so she settles on the couch for an annual tradition: watching an old VHS tape filled with well-wishes from her mother, who recorded them after a devastating cancer diagnosis meant she wouldn’t get to see her daughter grow up.

That could be the start of a melodrama, and there’s an element of that…