Tuesday 15 September 2009

THE LOST ART OF THE HORROR MOVIE POSTER (US EDITION)

A recent discussion at Stacie Ponder's essential Final Girl blog about the poster for the remake of "The House on Sorority Row"..



...called simply "Sorority Row" (kinda like Kentucky Fried Chicken used to be just that and now it's KFC)...



...lead me to consider the mostly lost art of the movie poster in general, and the lost art of the horror movie poster in specific. What follows are North American release posters only (too many amazing European ones to consider) that don't necessarily represent my favorite horror flicks, though some of them are, they're just genre posters that I love.