Originally titled Scream Machine. The film was Conceived & written long before the Popular Horror film V/H/S was ever released, Scream Machine was re-named by the distributor to DEATH BY VHS for Marketing purposes but was in no way ever intended to be a take off on the popular V/H/S films. The Producers Next film was released and titled Scream Machine in 2015, Death By VHS & Scream Machine are indeed two totally different films,