A video store in Tennessee is now selling coins that play horror shows on your phone, and honestly? This is the most 2026 sentence we've ever typed. Screamify's Micro Horror coins just hit their first retail shelf at Danger Zone Video in Mount Juliet — individually numbered, made in the USA, QR code on the back, scan it and the vertical series starts playing. Lose your link? Rescan the coin. The coin remembers.
Three coins are in the wild. We ranked them, because that is literally what we do.
1. Scary Mary. Two wannabe influencers summon Scary Mary for views and get a permanent unwanted roommate instead. From TikTok filmmaker Joshua Alden and his sister Brandi — creators who understand exactly why you watch horror with your thumb. Vertical horror about going viral, watched vertically. It's the concept eating its own tail and we respect it.
2. Autonomous. A couple gets in a driverless taxi after a night out, the argument gets heated, and by the time they look up the car has other plans. Doors locked, app glitching, no driver to plead with. Starring Erin Áine and Domenic Jungling, shot inside a real autonomous vehicle — the kind you could get into tonight. Sleep well.
3. Game Night. Scouts. Woods. A masked slasher with zero chill. Trent Duncan's entry is the classic camp-horror throwback of the trio — third place only because the other two are so aggressively of-the-moment, not because we'd survive it.
The coins are $15 each at Danger Zone Video, 11932 Lebanon Road, Mount Juliet, TN — a legit buy-sell-trade video store, open Wednesday through Sunday. Collect all three, obviously. Numbered coins do not restock themselves.
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