10 Most Iconic Horror Film Posters

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Noisecreep is honored to have Life of Agony and horror comics creator Alan Robert join our family! Starting with this piece, he'll be contributing a column he's dubbed Alan Robert's Severed Heads. In the column, you can expect buckets of blood, tons of gore and everything else from the horror realm!

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So here's the thing. Most people who know me have come to accept that I'm a complete horror movie junkie. They've also welcomed the fact that I seriously enjoy creating demented-looking, blood-soaked horror comic books on a regular basis. However, what most folks probably don't know about me is just how big an impact the movie posters I grew up on had, and still have, on my own artwork. Like the great Hannibal Lecter once said, "We begin by coveting what we see every day." And that's just what I did. I started out by drawing horror movie posters on my high school notebooks... you remember the old denim canvas loose-leafs? Yeah, well, mine were covered.

Halloween is right around the corner so I figured it'd be perfect timing to share some of my favorite iconic horror movie posters. It was no easy task to narrow 'em down to just ten, but I think that all of these picks are cuts above the rest (pun intended). Now, there's a distinct difference in my mind between "classic" posters and "iconic" posters, so for the purpose of this list we'll just focus on the "iconic" ones. When I think of a poster being visually iconic, it's usually an image so powerful and memorable that it can often transcend the film itself. Maybe we'll focus on "classic" posters in a future column. One more disclaimer... this list does not necessarily represent my favorite horror films, per se, just the most influential poster art.



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Alan Robert is a popular musician, artist and author, best known for being the primary-songwriter/bassist for the hard-rock group Life of Agony for over two decades. In recent years, he's created quite a name for himself in the world of comics due to the success of his critically acclaimed horror comics. In 2010, he released Wire Hangers, a unique horror/crime tale in which he wrote and illustrated, followed by the 2011 hit series Crawl to Me, now in development to become a feature film.

Alan's latest series, Killogy, stars Goodfellas/The Sopranos actor Frank Vincent, legendary punk rock icon Marky Ramone, and Heroes/Dexter actress Brea Grant as its main characters. Killogy hits comic shops this Halloween through IDW Publishing. For more info on Alan Robert, visit: www.alanrobert.com and follow him on Twitter: @arobert

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Fred Derf

There's no way you can convince me The Exorcist poster wasn't iconic. That image of Father Merrin's silhouette under the lamp post burns right into your head. It was inspired by a 1954 painting called Empire of Light by René Magritte.

February 21 2013 at 3:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
DD Verny

yeah hes brutal

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