ITT: Movie covers that used to scare you as a kid.
ITT: Movie covers that used to scare you as a kid
Matthew Collins
Colton Gomez
Joseph Ross
Haha yeah as a kid hah
Tyler Carter
was 13 when this came out but still wtf
Jayden Flores
When I was about 12 years old I would go to the local video store with my mom and head right to the horror section. She let me get anything I wanted. I loved choosing a movie by just the cover. I don't think I was ever disappointed. They tore down the building that held the video store this past fall. I wish I had taken photos of it beforehand.
This is the one that scared me the most. I still love the movie, but I think I wound up renting the sequel more times than this one.
Aaron Ross
This is why I avoided walking down the horror aisle at Blockbuster as a kid.
Eli Wright
that is a very unsettling poster. It's really great. Too bad that the movie is complete shit.
Brayden Long
spoiler: that thing only shows up for like five seconds at the very end and it's like the big "oh shit!" moment in the movie. so the cover is a spoiler
Robert Perez
This one.
Dylan Collins
Levi Young
The VHS cover made me think that the Critters were giant
Nathaniel Edwards
underage get out
Kevin Miller
Nolan Brown
Loved browsing the Blockbuster horror section even though I couldn't get anything from there. The back of the Day of the Dead VHS always freaked me out.
Jason Perez
The video nasty era was kino for artwork
John Watson
OP said scary not hilarious
Jonathan Johnson
I think I remember seeing this in blockbusters back in the day and the eyes in that skull fucking me up every time.
Shit, that looks like an illustration from 'scary stories to tell children'.
Huh, so that's the inspiration to that one castlevania boss. Im kind of curious about the movie now, how was it?
When I herd the name and saw the trailers I thought, 'oh, something out of a cheesy troma movie, this might be fun.' Never been so dissapointed in such a wasted opportunity to go full ham with the premise.
Landon Hernandez
h-hahah
Elijah Cook
It seems like each new physical medium leads to worse cover art. DVD covers are worse than VHS art, and a lot of blu ray covers are just bland shit.
Landon Hughes
Sebastian Ortiz
the back of Child's Play 2
Easton Barnes
Caleb Wright
Gabriel Howard
Brandon Stewart
Definitely
Alien VHS = kino box art
Benjamin Wilson
This, I kind of liked the "twist" that of all the weird apparitions that appear, the plainest one was then actual ghost.
Otherwise, complete garbage.
Also, a lot of modern washing machines and dryers use a finished alarm similar to the ring tone.
Ian Mitchell
hivemind
Jace Wilson
Alien Blu-ray = no kino
William Martinez
Doesn't the shapeshifting bounty hunter who becomes a girl with big tits turn into a giant one?
Isaac Evans
it's literally one of the dumbest movie titles ever
Tyler Smith
We had this thread not too long ago. This is my favorite example. Terrifying cover, garbage movie
Gavin Bailey
VHS art was just so much more important. In that age you really had so little to go by to know if a movie was good. Some companies got by making awful cheap films with badass well made covers.
By the time of DVDs people could see more and more about movies elsewhere. And now in the age of Blu Rays you can't fool anyone with a nice cover, so they don't even bother
Ian Reed
Liam Stewart
He looks like Leonardo DiCaprio in Edgar Hoover.
Alexander Anderson
This fucker.
Parker Turner
Not a cover, but this motherfucker scared the shit out of me. Every wednesday when Simpsons was on we would eat in front of the TV, but when this episode was on I ate alone in my room.
Colton Thompson
Am I the only one?
Jaxson Perry
How old were you?
Parker Jenkins
Mason Bell
From age 6-9, probably
Parker Barnes
asking for a friend, but where to find quality dvd covers online?
also the cover that use to make me uneasy was some damian-elf looking kid (eddy munster type) standing over some deceased sorority girl. can't remember the name of movie.
Austin Ortiz
>But in the stone age.
Grayson Richardson
I remember this motherfucker staring at me throughout the video store while looking for disney or kid's vhs tapes
I was also a catholic school boy so I felt like I was sinning looking at a movie about hell
ps. fuck catholicism
Robert Campbell
I had a bunch of old comics as a kid and they had ads for Evil Dead 2 in em.
Scared the fuck out of me.
Colton Roberts
This had me having nightmares for weeks.
Anthony Howard
The See you later, Gator
The goodbye guy
Eli Allen
fear dot come dot com dot com dot com
Levi Johnson
Adam Murphy
Wyatt Bailey
I'd always look at that video cover whenever I'd go to the video store. It didn't freak me out, it was more morbid curiosity
Aaron Gray
Looks like the rotten from ds2
Robert Powell
When I first saw this I thought it was about paint thinner.
John Cooper
Mason Adams
I still get a faint visceral reaction to seeing this. Also it was right next to the porn shelf at my local cornerstore, so probably some of those feeling mixed in as well.
Easton Campbell
This poster was never scary to me, but I thought it was mesmerizing. I remember thinking the movie was called "Smuck!" though, and I didn't know what smuck was. Still don't.
Brody Sanders
Isaiah Diaz
loved sexploitation
Owen Thompson
I hate box art like this. If I didn't know what this was about, I would think there's a skeleton in it. You don't get someone ready to see a skeleton and not show one.
Samuel Turner
Isaiah Cox
Anyone remember the back of that one vhs cover that showed a longmouth face coming out of a staticy tv screen? Shit was scary as fuck.
Benjamin Brown
Is that an actual poster for the film? With the exposed system showing how the skull was operated?
Tyler Edwards
Wow, you picked the only two I can remember in the horror section from Xtravision.
Gabriel Hill
Just watched this a few nights ago. Very impressive movie.
Isaac Butler
No, but later in the movie the Critters form together to create a giant ball