100 Illustrated Horror Film Posters: Part 1
Posted by Andrew Lindstrom / Inspiration,Lists / October 28th, 2008
For some, Halloween means costume parties and drunken debauchery. That’s never really been my style. Personally, I like to spend my Halloween evenings eating candy and watching scary movies. Yeah, I’m a nerd – I know.
This Halloween season has had me reminiscing of the brilliant horror and sci-fi movie posters of years past. Particularly, I am a fan of the illustrated posters that used to be the staple of nearly every science fiction and horror film released. These posters are able to communicate so much about a film with a single, masterfully created image that it’s a shame this style isn’t so popular nowadays.
Since there were so many amazing posters to showcase, I have split this post into two parts. Part two will be posted on October 31st. But for now, you may feast on the first half.
Creature from Black Lake
The Kindred
Fright Night
Tarantula!
Death Race 2000
Silent Running
The Thing
Forbidden Planet
House
Planet of the Vampires
Tales of Terror
Kingdom of the Spiders
Day of the Dead
The Winged Serpent
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Road Games
Equinox
Nosferatu
Alligator
The Alpha Incident
Up From the Depths
Zardoz
Dracula
C.H.U.D.
Robinson Crusoe on Mars
The Changeling
Invaders From Mars
The Giant Spider Invasion
Plan 9 From Outer Space
Mortuary
Fantastic Voyage
Dawn of the Mummy
Marooned
Destination Inner Space
Garden of the Dead
Piranha
The Shape of Things to Come
The Day It Came to Earth
Burial Ground
Orca
Mission Mars
First Spaceship on Venus
The Little Girl Who Lived Down The Lane
War of the Satellites
The Blob
Rollerball
Creature From the Black Lagoon
Atragon
TerrorVision
Jaws
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Yo, I'm Andrew Lindstrom. I am a freelance web designer based in Vancouver, Canada. When not geeking out over design, I'm likely geeking out over film, technology or pretending to play the guitar.
I’m new to this site, but I’m loving it so far. Awesome posters!
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I love horror film posters…..and you have a great collection here. In fact, I found these posters much more exciting than the movies. The Thing and The Little Girl Who Lived Down The Lane are indeed creepy.
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Nice pictures, I love this kind of pulp art and I love looking at them, cheking out the details. Thanks for posting.
Hi dear friends, It’s nice collection. It’s very good poster and their quality. I have no word for you good work. But it’s very fantastic. If you have more poster of horror movie. Can you share with us ?
most of them are gd but if u want super u gota look at things like wrong turn jeepers creepers halloween a nightmare on elm street friday the 13th the ring my bloody valentine lol
Great collection,it’s useful for our artist works.
Those are some of my favorite movies along with ones I have never seen and need to download and watch!! I wish movie posters were still like that…. then again I wish movies were still like that! I am going to go home and watch C.H.U.D. now… love it!
Great list of movies. I would love to see “The Kindred”. It’s funny how old scary movies look to be really frightening but sometimes are not. I still want to see that movie.
This is great stuff. Thanks for sharing this collection.
I must be a geek, too. I’m totally into the Horror Movie Posters. Thanks for going to the trouble to research and post.
You made an old lady smile….I so enjoyed browsing your collection…What’s funny is I remember most of the oldies.
Thanks for Sharing..
Brenda
loving your post
Wow such an awesome list. The schlocky nature of these posters gets me every time. And the memories…The Thing, Fright Night, Death Race. Legendary
cheers
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