10 Legendary VHS Horror Movie Covers That TERRIFIED Us!

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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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**SUBSCRIBE** To My Other CHANNELS @AVAWithChase and @AVPopCultureReviewsBefore streaming menus and digital algorithms, we relied on the tactile experience of browsing video stores. This look back at iconic horror VHS covers like They Live and Fright Night examines why the art on these boxes was often just as memorable as the films themselves. We are revisiting the golden age of physical media and the specific thrill of holding a rental tape in your hands.It is a toast to the past and the unique ways we used to discover cinema, focusing on how these designs captured our imagination before we ever pressed play. We explore the horror nostalgia that keeps us coming back to these vintage horror movies.Subscribe for weekly essays on pop culture history, and tell me in the comments: what is the one horror movie box art that scared you the most as a kid?
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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@ricknoce79YouTube

Growing up in the 80s was the best! Im writing this before Im watching, so what comes to mind is Pieces, which was my first horror movie around 5 yrs old.. my uncle would rent nothing but horror movies, Happy birthday to me, which always stuck in my head. It freaked me out but I would go back and stare at it every time. And Maniac.

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@NorkelFjolsYouTube

Dude, me too. The face on the Fright Night cover freaked me out as a kid, I had to turn away from the horror section when walking passed it in our local video store specifically because of that cover. For a while I'm sure it tended to pop into my mind when I turned off the lights to go to sleep. (Good thing I never saw that Night of the Demons cover back then, it would probably have done the same thing to me..)

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@قطريوأفتخر-ع7كYouTube

Video tapes !!!!. Now those were the days my friend. I also remember the Beta Max. I’ve seen the following listed movies on VHS; Halloween, Dead Alive, Creepshow, Fright Night, and Demons. 🎃👍🏽👍🏽

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@ReelPopcornGeekYouTube

Hell, not even modern physical media has great artwork, let alone theatrical posters.

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@BryceEdwards-qk6pxYouTube

The box art for 1990’s Tales From The Darkside: The Movie (with the cat-eyed demon looking up from a book with a sinister smile) gave me the creeps when I was 10 or 11 years old; unfortunately, I didn’t have to go to the video store to have that red-eyed S. O. B. creeping me out, because the ad for that movie was on the back cover of Starlog issue #154 (May 1990) which my Dad got for my brother and me at the local pharmacy because it had an interview with Judith Hoag (April O’Neil in the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie; my brother and I were into the Turtles at the time) in it! I finally watched the movie on late-night TV, however, and it wasn’t as bad as the advertising art got me!

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@TheRavingMKYouTube

LOL
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)

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@jamessarpy1411YouTube

still got my original copy vhs of fright night from when i was a kid

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@R.B.MoviesAndToys1984YouTube

I miss the good old days like that

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@SuerstrikeYouTube

Can't wait for this. Before we watch.. the poster that "done it for me". House! That zombie skeleton hand ringing the doorbell! Creepy!

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@HarryLimeLives82YouTube

The video cover for The Serpent and The Rainbow made damn sure I wasn't renting it anytime through my younger years.

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@jtap484YouTube

I used to go into the horror section just to freak myself out, looking at the artwork! Fright night definitely gave me nightmares!

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@brunoKenzerYouTube

I thought the two cover artworks for the Sleeping car from 1990 was creepy and creeped me out. That Fright Night artwork is definitely iconic along with Salem's Lot from 1979 regarding the artworks, they are so iconic that boutique labels keep the original art. The Fog 1980 is worth a mention.

👍 12026/09/17

@GerryM-w8tYouTube

I still have the colorized 1933 King Kong VHS box where he roars when you press his chest. Unfortunately the battery died years ago.

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@adambusenlehner3689YouTube

I love the cover of THE EXORCIST. The light shining through the window to misty air surrounding Father Merrin standing outside. Classic.

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@uncommonsense9426YouTube

Man, it's such a sober reminder of what we lost when Blockbuster closed. There were no agenda-based algorithms giving the illusion of choice, just movies on shelves to look through until something catches your eye.

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@barryclaydon2481YouTube

Some of my fav horror movie covers are Friday the 13th Jason Lives, People Under The Stairs, Dolls, Creepshow 2, Christine

👍 12026/09/17

@SkyMightFall09YouTube

Just wanna say thank you for making videos I can share with my kids. I’ve always did my best to explain how we had it. Now when I have them they wanna binge lol much love from Cali!

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@CHRISMED2YouTube

Dead Pit !!! Always looked creepy with the glowing eyes

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@ReelPopcornGeekYouTube

The TWO EVIL EYES and MOM artwork creep me out to this day.

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@AVAPopCultureYouTube

I love hearing that you're sharing the nostalgia with your kids through my videos!!, thanks for the support! 🎃

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@AVAPopCultureYouTube

Nothing will ever beat that feeling of browsing the aisles for a Friday night rental! 📼

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@AVAPopCultureYouTube

Me too

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@dominic_persephone18YouTube

What terrified me the most was the vhs horror tapes with surgical equipment. Those ones really got me scared.

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@benbelzer8303YouTube

Critters 2 with the heads all together rolling at you, and Monkey Shines, and maybe Child's Play 2. Great VHS covers

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@AVAPopCultureYouTube

What is some of the VHS horror cover art that you remember? Also, do you want me to do a big video on the BEST Horror art of all time for spooky season? Let me know!

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@separateheadingYouTube

16:05 I avoided Fright Night for a time because of that artwork…absolutely terrified me. But is now one of my favorite movies of all time.

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@emptyeye901YouTube

The Rumpelstiltskin box cover terrified me as a kid

👍 02026/09/17

@SpencerDrummerYouTube

Dude, I hadn’t seen or thought of the ghoulies cover since like 1991. I remember you mentioned it last year. I’m 41 so I was about 6 when I would test my bravery and walk to the horror section of our home video store here in Orange County CA. This cover chilled me to the bone back then! You are so spot on about your assessment of video stores back then and the covers. If you didn’t live through it, you’ll never really know!

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@theninjateriakishow9456YouTube

The Media cover of A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 : Freddy's Revenge scared the hell out of me. I didn't know who Freddy was yet, so my mind conjured all kinds of scenarios of who that man was on the cover.

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@shastaevangeline8952YouTube

It's Alive. Especially the 1984 Warner Home Video version. The lighting and shadows are very creepy.

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@mario-mario822YouTube

Goulies 1 Texas chainsaw big box with the crying eyes and hellraiser all terrified me at the video store,maaaannnnnn 😂😅

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@pennywise9-j3eYouTube

1970s, and essentially, the 80s artwork on VHS was mint. That's what pulled you to the tape 📼

👍 02026/09/17

@benbelzer8303YouTube

The Friday the 13th part V always had a certain spooky vibe about it, and it's so simple; a white mask with red light glowing through

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@wrestling.rage.cuts8991YouTube

The Changeling and Children of the Corn always creeped me out as a kid

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@ExplodedBootYouTube

Night of the Demons always got me.

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@grrrr....maritz6491YouTube

‘Fright Night’… good grief that cover. It scared the brown stuff out of me. And then, years later I watched it and was surprised it was a comedy.

👍 02026/09/17

@benboxingsenseYouTube

I got the Fright Night , Lost Boys, The Howling poster in my Living Room

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@Mad9977YouTube

I miss the days where we could go into a shop and get VHS or DVD's without the need of ordering them

👍 02026/09/17

@kurtwoods7546YouTube

Loved you sharing your dream!! I think we all had a few nightmares due to horror movies!

👍 12026/09/17

@ianmayer2951YouTube

Evil Dead 1979 cover.

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@mario-mario822YouTube

I would also say Texas chainsaw 2" The Buzz is back!" Cover is legendary in how bold it was to do 😂😂😂

I loved animated covers to vhs like Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes and mad balls😂

👍 22026/09/17

@shawnsimmons9319YouTube

Perfect choice of a topic! Love the old VHS box art!

👍 02026/09/17

@nickhornby704YouTube

A few years ago my 7 year old daughter decided to look through my collection and found Demons. Scared her to tears 😅

Revenge of The Radioactive Reporter artwork always creeped me out.

👍 42026/09/17

@Jamie-99twYouTube

The frighteners had an awesome cover

👍 42026/09/17

@k9fecesYouTube

I swear that everyone was watching horror back then. We were either renting or watching it on HBO. Plus the weekly series.

👍 12026/09/17

@RipleyWeirMacReadyYouTube

I remember being in charge of renting horror movies for a slumber party in 6th grade. My mom took me to Blockbuster & she said get whatever you want. I picked out 3 movies on just the artwork & story. I got Candyman, Sleepaway Camp, & I cannot remember the 3rd one. We watched Candyman first & everyone was terrified to go to the bathroom alone after. Then we watched Sleepaway Camp & then everyone refused to watch the 3rd movie. My friends said I gave them nightmares for weeks. The cover art that creeped me was Nightmare on Elm Street & Popcorn. #Basket

👍 12026/09/17

@codoloco5514YouTube

Fright Night takes the cake for me. Also Curtains 1983 and Dolls 1987... Nightmare fuel!

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@bassman8144YouTube

Scariest poster art I have ever seen was for “Fred the Movie”. I still shudder at the thought of it😖

👍 02026/09/17

@carlosmelendez8317YouTube

Nothing like going on Blockbuster or Video Hut and renting movies just based on cool box art whether it was good or not.

👍 02026/09/17

@ArchibaldWattYouTube

When I was little (born in 1977) so early 80s my parents would take me to a video store called The Video Station. The Video Station had two levels, the first was new releases, family/kids stuff, and comedies. The second level up a flight of carpeted stairs was action, sci-fi, horror. While my parents were distracted, I’d wander up there and scare myself silly looking at the movie jackets. The one that scared me the most (and sort of still does) was for 1979’s The Visitor. It’s a giant floating eye with clawed hands holding a wire dripping blood. The tagline: They know we are here.

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 :)

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@TheIgorSnowdenYouTube

I'm 62, I remember the 80s video stores very well. I even worked at Tower Records in the video department for a couple of years.
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.

👍 12026/09/17

@Rock_a_hoYouTube

When i was a kid the cover for Evil Dead 2 and weirdly enough April fools Day creeped me out the most

👍 02026/09/17

@mattwukYouTube

That panning shot at 2:27 hit the nostalgia button hard 👊👌

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@pmcsmidnightmovies6141YouTube

Even seeing the ads for horror releases in the theatre in the newspaper was exciting and horrifying. It was the same art on the boxes in video stores. Demons is awesome with that box cover.

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@Foxwoods1722YouTube

Along with the cover art movie TITLES played a huge role in your blockbuster decision. That’s why movie like True Romance got passed by

👍 02026/09/17

@ItsGreatToBeATennVolYouTube

Chopping Mall was always a classic cover. Halloween is still iconic.

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@stephanief84YouTube

Return to horror high, chopping mall, happy birthday to me, cheerleader camp always got me even to today

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@jasonwebster9300YouTube

Fright Night (1985) was part of the great trend of releasing good horror-comedies. It is further a example of what can be achieved when you have a good director, good screenplay and the right people in the crew and cast.The premise of a high school student discovering his new neighbour is a centuries-old vampire lent itself very well to the approach taken. The cinematography, production design and make-up effects were all very good. The cast compliment well and Roddy McDowall as Peter Vincent was a inspired casting choice - he owned very scene he was in! I don’t anyone that doesn’t love Friday Night.

👍 02026/09/18

@beyondz55YouTube

Serpent and the Rainbow had a very creepy cover. Pet semetery as well.

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@matthewmarek1467YouTube

I don't know if it is the best VHS box art, but Chopping Mall always stood out as a cool cover.

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@Jamesharris-lo9nnYouTube

The scariest VHS era cover art to me is Night Of The Demon.
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. 👹👹👹

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@dafrog491YouTube

It almost reminds me of the the cover for Escape from NY. It shows Lady Liberty's head on the street but that isnt shown in the movie. I love that image and would have liked to have seen that in the movie. Could've easily been done with matte painting techniques

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@Porter42981YouTube

Never get rid of it 💪 my dumb ass sold my copy now I regret it 🤣

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@ringo39YouTube

in all my 63 yrs., only two movies scarred me. american werewolf in london and mark of the devil. both seen by myself as a kid. maybe thats why i like scary stuff, ghosts, paranormal vids. to this day.

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@themancaveman-t3qYouTube

In '87 and '88 I worked in a video store after graduating from high school. There was one VHS box I used to look at all the time: "The Kindred". It had a baby bottle on the front, with a little reptilian creature with its claws against the glass and floating in liquid. I never took it home, but the box sure was a good one. To this day I've not seen the movie.

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@gerby17YouTube

This is why I miss CDs for the cover art. Streaming is nice so you can have it right away, but the artwork made it even more special.

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@JohnnyJuggernaut17YouTube

976-Evil better be in your top 25 VHS covers

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@JamesB-mg9pkYouTube

House and The Video Dead VHS cover I always loved. Nothing will beat looking at VHS horror box art at the video store. Keep rocking!

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@user-nd6tk5xi3pYouTube

Blood Beach was always my favorite vhs cover!

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@mikenolan8044YouTube

I know what you mean about the artwork misrepresenting the movie. That was also often the case with posters in movie theaters. I recall seeing the poster for Robot Monster, which was coming to the theater next week. I was ten years old and ALWAYS at the movies on Saturday morning.

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!

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@jasonl1942YouTube

Speaking about adgenda based, you ARE aware blockbuster was a Christian driven organisation that dictated to major studios WHAT content they shouldn't have in their movies to guarantee a spot on their video shelves right? They controlled the rental market because of their distribution pull, the cornered the market and pushed all the mom and dad stores out of business - the stores where you could find anything you wanted.

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...

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@mikeprince6685YouTube

I remember seeing the child’s play vhs at our local rental store, I was captivated but terrified! I would sneak over and look at it almost every time me and my mom went 😂

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@JJunebugXVYouTube

I used to love the mom and pop place. Had all the best movies I didn’t bother with blockbuster. There were two I went to on the regular. I wish my kids could enjoy that feeling of picking out a movie

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@jonathanradnidge3368YouTube

Bro it was the back of the VHS tape of Fright Night that scared the shit out of me when I was in the video store at at 5 years old.
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

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@Moviefan-5YouTube

Yeah, I’ll enjoy a best horror art of all time video

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@DoomSlayer1981YouTube

Two covers that terrified me as a kid was: Psychos in Love (yes, that one did because my dad had a big movie poster of it in our hallway) and Graveyard Shift with the skull and glowing eyes.

👍 02026/09/18

@doomsdaybeastxYouTube

House (1985) honorable mention. Always stood out to me.

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@61in61No9YouTube

The distinctive Warner Bros home video “clamshell” plastic cases for both “Creepshow” movies always made an impression on me (I always loved those and MGMs tapes). One not on your list that was interesting was “Hellbound: Hellraiser 2” with Pinhead and the female. I can smell the musty video store I frequented as a kid just thinking about them. Great video idea, love your content.

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@richard-mr1vzYouTube

It’s very compelling artwork without giving away any plot points👍👍The concept is one of contradictory themes—Regan’s bedroom is shrouded in light (but the Devil is darkness) whilst Father Merrin is portrayed in shadows (but He is the light of the world)🙏🙏🔥🔥

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@joebrezelYouTube

Robert Stack narrorating your Demons nightmare with the Unsolved Mysteries music??? EPIC‼️‼️‼️🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽

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@BrennanBarrierYouTube

Demons is still burned into my brain from our local video store horror section. One that even to this day gives me the absolute creeps is Child of Darkness Child of Light

👍 02026/09/18

@emerald1805YouTube

Before video stores it was the scary paintings at the start of every episode of “Night Gallery” the TV show!

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@jblue6236YouTube

For me, Evil Dead 2 had the most memorable vhs cover. That Skull with the eyes staring right at you was such a cool effect.

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@reeltoreelauto-9719YouTube

The fright night box set absolutely terrified me as a kid. I didn’t watch the movie until I was an adult, and I absolutely fell in love with it. I was lucky enough to meet Chris Sarandon last year and get him to sign my fright night movie poster which is now prominently displayed in my home theater.

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@1920sBuffaloGuyYouTube

The ones I remember the most going up and down the horror aisle were Jason Goes to Hell, Jack Frost, Dead Alive, Freddy's Dead, Session 9, Evil Dead 2, Waxwork and Silence of the Lambs. Those are the ones that stick out in my mind from the 90s to mid 2000s.

👍 02026/09/18

@ZillaMuscleYouTube

Night of the creeps freaked me out seeing that cover back in the day.

👍 02026/09/18

@BLUEDELUCAYouTube

The trailers and Ads for THE SHINING traumatized me as a kid. As for VHS covers….THE HOWLING freaked me out.

👍 02026/09/18

@Garch-the-GreatYouTube

I'm old enough for vinyl, and some of them (most 70s Alice Cooper releases, for example) had really innovative packaging with fold-outs and inserts. At one point as a teen, I had record sleeves tacked up from floor to ceiling around my room.

👍 12026/09/18

@Garch-the-GreatYouTube

@jasonl1942 I hated Blockbuster. We had a chain, probably regional, called Cox Video. Their stores were all monstrous, they had about any movie you could think of, and I was truly devastated when they shut down in 2001.

👍 02026/09/18

@Garch-the-GreatYouTube

Dead Pit's 3D light-up box and the talking Frankenhooker variant both would've been in my top 10.

👍 02026/09/18

@michaelward5370YouTube

When I was a kid I thought that the scarier the art work on the cover the more I felt that I needed to see the movie! I was lucky that the guy that owned the video store across the street from my house knew my dad so he was more than willing to give 9 year old me any 18 rated horror movies that I wanted to see!!

👍 02026/09/18

@Islandgirl2038YouTube

The cover art was epic and so many times we picked something based solely on it. It was best part of a trip to the video store. The Exorcist stands out for me. That image of Father Merlin standing under that one street light is unforgettable. Great video Chase!

👍 02026/09/18

@Mr79ManYouTube

I like the Jerry Dandridge 'Fright Night'... One of my favorites too.

👍 02026/09/18

@chadwoodard1971YouTube

Best horror art video would be awesome!

👍 12026/09/18

@jackthomas6952YouTube

I remember the Cover Art for Pet Semetary, that’s a cover that scared the hell outta me. Also all the Nightmare On Elm Street cover arts, beckoning me to dare to watch……

👍 02026/09/18

@jackthomas6952YouTube

Also the Mom and Pop video stores like Major Video or Showtime video that we had in El Paso Tx. Those horror aisles were definitely dark and creepy. In the words of Ray Liotta in Goodfellas “ It was a glorious time”. lol that’s another movie poster I remember seeing suspended from Smith’s Grocery Store Video Section Ceiling, when the movie was first released!

👍 02026/09/18

@JayKay-g9dYouTube

Top five movie posters that gave me the ick and the willies:

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!

👍 02026/09/18

@dwaynedibbley1592YouTube

Fright night cover always sparked my imagination.
Return of the living dead part 2 was also very similar

👍 12026/09/18

@OldboyChristianYouTube

Excellent list!! Love all of those covers! Hellraiser has always been one of the best covers for me but the one that I can never forget is The Brain. The creature on the cover told you everything about that movie and it didn’t false advertise. Love it!

👍 02026/09/18

@DanthehorseYouTube

The House By The Cemetary cover, chilling as heck. And then the film disturbed the heck out of me.

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@MattyMonsterguy1941YouTube

I miss VHS 📼 tapes and artwork 😞

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@MENTSCHBYouTube

that's number 1 for sure!

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@ArtofLunatikYouTube

I wish all the Nightmare on Elm st dvds and blurays would of used the original painted Poster art that was made for them.

👍 12026/09/19

@FoxesandDesigningYouTube

A Company of Wolves stopped me dead in my tracks when I saw it in the videostore window in 1985. That image of a wolf snout coming out of the guy's mouth was pure nightmare fuel.

👍 02026/09/19

@backroad4167YouTube

Thanks for the walk down memory lane!! Can’t wait to see more

👍 02026/09/19

@rebeccasue25YouTube

gothic was always the one that stood out for me. When you first saw it, the girl laying on the bed with the long blonde hair looking like she’s right out of a Harlekin romance novel. Then I saw the little man and it’s like there’s something wrong with him. He’s not Cupid and you look at his clause reaching out for the girl as she sound asleep her not knowing he’s there. There was something so subtly chilling about that it always stuck with me.

👍 02026/09/19

@DISCursiveMediaYouTube

Man, I miss those days. I remember the cover of American Werewolf in London scared the pants off me back in the uk in the 80’s 🤣

👍 02026/09/19

@dnad8034YouTube

The blob and pumpkinhead were really good covers

👍 02026/09/19

@JohnSmith-fq7hjYouTube

kids today will never know the excitement of finally sneaking into that back section behind that door that said adults only lol

👍 02026/09/20

@s.c.degrand2064YouTube

Death Spa - "You'll sweat blood"
Me - "ew."

👍 02026/09/21

@TheRealDale3YouTube

Jack Frost is the big one I remember...with the holographic snowman.

👍 02026/09/22

@TheImatubeYouTube

The Squirm 1976 cover of worms coming out the shower head onto a womans face had me traumatised

👍 02026/09/23

@AVAPopCultureYouTube

I just immediately flashed that image in my mind lol!!!!!!!!!!

👍 12026/09/24

@atomzero29YouTube

Browsing an independent video store, I happened across a movie called The Lift. The box cover showed a man with his head stuck between two elevator doors with his hands struggling to open them. The caption read, “Take the stairs, for gods sake, take the stairs”. My imagination soared at the thought of a killer elevator. It was never available to rent, it was always checked out so I never saw it, but it’s securely stuck in my memory.

👍 02026/09/26

@Channel53xYouTube

Death Spa is incredible too

👍 02026/10/02

@oakeidissiczeppic974YouTube

There was a Hellraiser: Bloodline ad on the back of my older brother’s Ghost Rider comic, and it set off a series of episodes of me freaking the hell out if I caught a glimpse of Pinhead at the video store.

👍 02026/10/13

@brownieelf6171YouTube

I rented Demon Knight as a kid based solely on the VHS box and such a solid pick. Still love that movie.

👍 02026/10/16

@Angel-u1h8gYouTube

Especially if you had a Drs appointment coming up soon.

👍 12026/10/25

@tylerpeck9754YouTube

I had no idea Robert stack was in the last one… that’s awesome!!

👍 02026/11/01