Halloween Special: The 10 Most Pants-Wettingly Scary Movie Posters of the ’80s

Halloween Special: The 10 Most Pants-Wettingly Scary Movie Posters of the ’80s

Hard to believe in this day and age, but there was once a time when Blockbuster, Netflix and friggin’ DVD dispensers at McDonalds didn’t possess a stranglehold on the movie-rental market. With the VHS/VCR boom of the early ‘80s, mom n’ pop video stores—rental locations with instantly catchy names like Mega Video, Captain Video and Movies-4-Rent—became widespread as people clamored for home entertainment, and visiting one of these spots was an event. Most children of the ‘80s have incredibly vivid memories of hitting up a video store with the parents, along with the movie posters that plastered every inch of the wall.

These posters found ran the gamut from summer blockbusters (Ghostbusters! Indiana Jones!) to some pretty bizarre direct-to-video dreck (Michael Dudikoff Presents Action Adventure Theater: The Bronx Executioner?). But it was the posters for that era’s brand of horror flicks that truly stick out in our minds; many of them presented some gruesome, freakish imagery that weighed heavily on us after we’d left the store, and made for a shitty’s night’s sleep. The irony is that these flicks certainly weren’t classics of the genre; the majority sucked and weren’t even remotely scary! But their promotional materials were able to latch onto unique fears that 8-year-olds have. So with that in mind, here are 10 horror-flick posters from the mom n’ pop video store heyday that left us crawling under the covers with our actual Ma and Pa. Read more …

The frighteners Horror Movie Trailer By Michael J Fox , Poster and Trailer

An architect turned psychic medium takes on an evil, murderous entity, in order to clear his name, protect his girl friend, and stop the killing of townspeople.

The cast includes: Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson, John Astin, Dee Wallace Stone, Jeffrey Combs, John Charles Bartlet, Troy Evans, Jake Busey, and Chi McBride.

Written by: Fran Walsh & Peter Jackson. Directed by: Peter Jackson.

Produced by: Robert (Back to the Future & Forrest Gump) Zemeckis.

The Frighteners is a ghost /horror/murder mystery; a spooky who-done-it story; an interesting mix of ghosts, a haunted house, and an extremely wicked, murderous entity, who matches wits with a psychic scam artist, Frank Bannister, (Fox), who is determined to clear his name, protect his girlfriend (Trini Alvarado), and stop the killing by stopping this evil entity.

After an architect, Frank Bannister, is in a deadly car crash, that supposedly killed his wife, he finds himself with psychic ability to see, and communicate with ghosts, and see past /future events. He at first uses this new psychic gift to run a scam, where he works with two ghosts, his “Ectoplasmic Associates,” (Cyrus and Stuart) who go in a house, do their best to scare the living, and then leave on cue when Bannister arrives , who then made money for getting rid of the “unwelcome guests.” Read more …