Surprisingly, considering my vivid memories of these early-childhood video-store phobias, and its similar elements to other ones I've mentioned, I don't remember being frightened by the cover to Jaws!)Īnother one that upset me: When Wolfgang Petersen's Shattered came out on VHS, the video store had a big poster in the window, and I couldn't look at that either - what with the screaming woman's face reflected in the shattered glass, not to mention my aforementioned "old friend" Leo the Lion.Īnother one which wasn't horror-related, but I just remembered terrified me for a time: The semi-anthropomorphized, sunglasses-wearing baseball on the cover of Major League. And speaking of mouths, maybe the screaming face on the cover for Pink Floyd: The Wall - but that was an MGM tape so I was intimidated by that box regardless. This new mass market-sized edition features the classic original cover and includes a retrospective essay from author Jerry B 043 The Cat and the Mermouse. (I bet I also had problems with The Rocky Horror Picture Show and its disembodied lips, but I'm not 100% sure on that one. Giggles, also with a looming death stare Bram Stoker's Dracula and its gargoyle and Halloween II's skull-faced jack-o-lantern. Other ones I have memories of having been frightened or at least intimidated by: Scorsese's Cape Fear, with the glaring, floating eyes Dr. Another girl, Genevieve is still missing, and the detective on the case has a personal stake in the project, hes her father.
At one point I would not go into the local Suncoast at the mall, and dreaded even passing by it, because they had a big placard on the wall with that logo on it which was visible from outside the store.Īs far as movies that could actually qualify as horror or scary, I'm reminded that I was particularly bothered by the cover of The Silence of the Lambs, with that death's-head butterfly perched over the woman's mouth. Excellent slasher/horror movie debut from the TWISTED SISTER front man Dee Snider Includes booklet. Eddies appearance on the single cover is an homage to the Clint Eastwood character Man with No Name. Specific bonus features have not been listed, but we have your first look at the cover artwork below. TV Shows On DVD reports that the Blu-ray and DVD release date is set for October 9th.
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Not a horror/scary movie, but when I was 2, I thought the cover of the first Tim Burton Batman was a mouth angrily baring its teeth, because I interpreted the bat shape as negative space - think of the famous Rubin's Vase effect.