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!

From Alan Robert:

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.