When it comes to great horror movie posters, we’re looking for those that not only make us shudder—but tell a story. And while Hollywood has treated us to more than a few graphic art duds, it also served up some nightmare-inducing works of art. Prepare to have your imaginations scarred.
Rosemary's Baby

- Photo Credit: Paramount Pictures
Once upon a time, Roman Polanski made a demonic fairytale about a pregnant Manhattanite who gives birth to Satan’s spawn.
Suspiria

- Photo Credit: International Classics
Master of horror Dario Argento choreographs a barre-raising, ballet horror showcasing a coven of witches—and pools of blood.
Halloween

- Photo Credit: Compass International Pictures
A trick and a treat, John Carpenter’s 1970s classic belongs to a homicidal killer who prefers carving up horny teenagers to oversize squashes.
Alice, Sweet Alice

- Photo Credit: Allied Artists Pictures
Sibling rivalry causes one 12-year-old to hide behind a yellow slicker and a cherub mask then take a knife to her enemies. Or does it?
Hostel: Part II

- Photo Credit: Lionsgate
A vacay abroad turns deadly for three American female college students in the second chapter of Eli Roth’s body hacking saga.
Jaws

- Photo Credit: Universal Pictures
Steven Spielberg’s classic maritime thriller focuses on a great white man-eater who turns the beachgoers of a quaint island community his chum. Don’t go in the water.
Antichrist

- Photo Credit: IFC Films
A grieving couple seeks solace in a desolate cabin. Soon thereafter, they go to town on each other with a rusty pair of scissors in Lars von Trier’s experimental horror film.
Sinister

- Photo Credit: Summit Entertainment
True crime writer Ellison Oswalt and his family become the next victims of the very serial killer he’s researching for his latest book.
Re-Animator

- Photo Credit: Empire Pictures
A med student plays God with deceased critters then moves on to subjects of a different nature.
Teeth

- Photo Credit: Roadside Attractions
For Dawn O’Keefe, a stranger in her own maturing body, puberty bites.
April Fool's Day

- Photo Credit: Paramount Pictures
Privileged college kids head to a lakeside mansion to live and die in an episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Easy to Kill.
The Evil Dead

- Photo Credit: Renaissance Pictures
Three things every Sam Raimi fan knows: Don’t go in the woods. Don’t go in the basement. And don’t f*ck with the Necronomicon.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

- Photo Credit: New Line Cinema
Everything is messier in Texas when a cannibal gang releases its disfigured skin-draped ogre on a squad of teenagers in Tobe Hooper’s 1970s cult classic.
Saw

- Photo Credit: Lionsgate Films
James Wan’s chilling debut about a maniac who plays a sick game with society’s sinners poses a grisly philosophical question: What would you saw off to live?
Torso

- Photo Credit: Anchor Bay Entertainment
Perugia coeds head to a country villa to escape a campus killer who’s taking lives with a fancy scarf.
A Tale of Two Sisters

- Photo Credit: B.O.M. Film Productions Co.
Scraped knees are nothing for a pair of Korean siblings who exit the mental hospital and enter their worst bloody nightmare.
Chopping Mall

- Photo Credit: Trinity Pictures
Mom, we’re going to the mall to get our heads blown off by a trio of psychotic robotic security guards. Don’t wait up.
House

- Photo Credit: Janus Films
Floating heads, sinister felines, and supernatural scares … they’re what makes writer/director Nobuhiko Obayashi’s bonkers horror house a home—and a midnight movie classic.
The Descent

- Photo Credit: Lions Gate Films
Neil Marshall pits a crew of female spelunkers against a breed of slimy, albino cave dwellers in this claustrophobic horror.
Slither

- Photo Credit: Universal Pictures
The Blob meets Night of the Living Dead in this genre-bender about locals being invaded by a slew of wriggly slug-like aliens.
A Nightmare on Elm Street

- Photo Credit: New Line Cinema
Only one thing can save Wes Craven’s sleep-deprived teens from the blistered, finger-bladed stalker who haunts your dreams: caffeine.
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