Horror Video Tape
by suanniqiezi
Horror Video Tape adds a retro television set and three haunted tapes, each sealing the player away into a different recording.
What it does
Placing the old television set and inserting a tape starts the footage, with a flickering screen and snowy static, an unsettling melody and distorted video. The mod is themed on classic horror footage and is a remaster of an older Bedrock Edition project by DaveNextDoorSteve, carried over to Java Edition.
The White Video Tape brings Sadako out through the television, a hostile creature with 100 health points and 40 attack damage that ignores sunlight and water and can be harmed only by weapons enchanted with Smite. She stays for 15 seconds before vanishing again, unless she is offered a Poppy, which calms her and keeps her as a companion. Playing the Black-and-White Video Tape starts a KUN dance sequence, while the Black Video Tape releases Nyan Cat into the world. Each tape uses frame-by-frame animations and exclusive music, and its translations were done with AI.
Installation is for NeoForge only, with the 1.0.1 file for 1.21.1 as the latest build. The environment is client and server, so the server and every player need the mod, and it is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 license, so it is not open source.
Key features
Haunted television set
A retro television set is crafted from iron ingots, a glass pane and redstone, and it plays the recorded tapes.
Three sealing tapes
Each tape seals the player into a different recording, with its own footage, animation and music.
Sadako encounter
The White Video Tape summons Sadako, a creature that vanishes after 15 seconds unless offered a Poppy.
Shapeless tape crafting
Video tapes are crafted without a fixed pattern, combining a music disc with a material such as a Ghast Tear, a feather or string.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Questions
Does Horror Video Tape need a server install?
What material crafts each video tape?
Can Sadako be kept around?
In the catalog
Horror Video Tape is one of 7,555 Cursed mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,801 Cursed mods for NeoForge. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
Horror Video Tape is a Minecraft horror experience mod themed around classic horror footage. Originally created by DaveNextDoorSteve, it is now being remastered from the old Bedrock Edition to Java Edition. At the core of the mod are a retro vintage television set and three mysterious video tapes—each tape seals away…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/horror-video-tape
- Owner
- suanniqiezi
- Published
- 2026-07-08
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-07-19
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15
