Calling All Horror Fans: A Collection of 50 Classic Horror Movie Posters

John Summers • Contributor

Aug 18, 2024 9:00 PM EDT

What happened to horror films? I remember going to the movies with my friends back in the 80s and 90s and watching some truly disturbing horror movies filled with blood and guts and all kinds of monsters and serial killers. But for the last 20 years I feel like all horror movies are exactly the same - A family moves to an old house, weird stuff happened, people are killed, turns out it was haunted. That's pretty much it. They have become so formulaic and lean so heavily into jump scares, I just can't enjoy them any more. They are way too predictable.

Don't get me wrong, there were a lot of really bad horror movies back in my day, and I do mean A LOT. But that was because everyone was experimenting, trying to find new, wild and gory ways to make the audience scream in terror. Some of those worked, a lot of them didn't, but at least it was fun, insane, and extremely bloody.