10 Legendary VHS Horror Movie Covers That TERRIFIED Us!
289 مشاهدة · 2026/09/17
These legendary horror VHS covers defined our childhood fears and changed how we browsed for movies.
10 Horror VHS Covers That HAUNTED Our Childhood
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00:00 The VHS Covers We Never Forgot
02:00 #10 They Live
03:25 #9 Silent Night, Deadly Night
04:50 #8 Death Spa
06:15 #7 The Return of the Living Dead
07:45 #6 Halloween
09:10 #5 Night of the Demons
10:40 #4 Dead Alive
12:10 #3 Creepshow
13:50 #2 Fright Night
15:50 #1 Demons
19:40 The Movie Before the Movie
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Used to go to a convenience store every Friday with my dad, always always rented horror movies, and was a poster on the wall of that Demons cover. Fuckin ahhhhhhh!!!!!
Also, the old cover for Carrie scared the shit outta me. Hadn't seen it. And she's standing there all pretty on one side and all bloody on the other (and I didn't know why)
I loved animated covers to vhs like Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes and mad balls😂
Revenge of The Radioactive Reporter artwork always creeped me out.
The idea that there was some mysterious evil race watching us and we are unaware filled me with existential dread, I’d imagine the sort of dread a Lovecraft character experiences when he learns of the old ones…except I was five.
Great video, thanks for the trip down memory lane :)
Back then we found out about new Horror films from Starlog and Fangoria and then there were the films you discovered while looking at the video box cover art.
Some favorite box art / posters from back then are on your list, Fright Night, Night of the Demons, and Demons remain among my favorites to this day.
Fulci's Zombie, Night of the Creeps, Monster Squad, Anthony Hickox's Waxwork and Sundown, Basket Case, Re-Animator, Street Trash, and Killer Klowns From Outer Space were standouts on the video shelves.
Then there were the interactive boxes, I still have the talking Frankenhooker box and the 3-D Frighteners box.
Love the channel by the way. I don't agree with you 100% of the time, but we do share a lot of common ground.
That Angela character scared the heck out of me as a teen when it first came out.
I didn't even have the courage to rent it. 👹👹👹
The poster showed a very large gorilla with a space helmet and a skull face carrying off a provocatively clad young woman. King Kong, science fiction, horror and s*x all in one. (Yes, even at ten I knew something about that.) This was gonna be fantastic! But when I saw Robot Monster the following week … what a disappointment!
Don't believe me? Can you recall WHERE the adult R18 adult content section was?!
Oh that's right, blockbuster DIDNT have them because it didn't align with his family values...
It was the close up of the woman’s face with the mouth full of sharp teeth and demonic eyes.
I couldn’t think of anything more terrifying than seeing that in the dark somewhere
1) Suspiria - The one with the ballerina in white with red paint dripping down her neck to form the titles.
2) Basket Case - The video store I used to go to had his big poster of two eyes staring from inside a wicker basket - scared me to bits as a kid!
3) Eaten Alive - The Toby Hooper one. Had Neville Brand's head with a sickle around his neck. Plenty of the red stuff running down.
4)The Boogey Man - The Ulli Lommel film. Poster of the priest holding the cross with the red stuff dripping down his head gave me sleepless nights!
5) The Unnamable - The video cover art of the creature freaked me out!
Return of the living dead part 2 was also very similar
Me - "ew."