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How many times have you walked to your movie hall and stopped midway to check out a movie poster? I do that all the time and I love everything about them. The graphics, the text and of course, the little ambiguous giveaways of the movie mentioned.
Posters are usually graphic pieces of art, which are bold and daring in nature. A good movie poster has the artist's work immersed deep in it and the creative license does demand a lot of credit.
Horror movie posters have some extra creativity to make sure the audience quivers with the graphic images on them. Some of them are so graphic, that you'd not want to look at it again!
© Tristar Pictures
Right now, the content on most horror movie posters has been dialled down a notch, but back in the day, some posters were so graphic, that parents and religious groups protested to have them taken down, for the sake of not terrorising the kids.
Here's a list of banned horror movie posters, and each and every one of them makes for an interesting piece of history, keeping its shock value in mind:
Saw II (2005)'Saw II' had an image of two severed fingers which the Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) was not too happy about. The image was eventually rectified by replacing the version of the severed fingers with longer fingers, so they wouldn't seem severed on the poster.
Old Poster:
© Lionsgate Films
New Poster:
© Lionsgate Films
Okay, I am not sure why this poster was banned by the MPAA. The poster shows an entity dragging a body bag with a hand coming out of it, which is barely that scary! All they did later was replace the hand with a pair of legs! How is that any different?
Old Poster:
© Fox Atomic
New Poster:
© Fox Atomic
A remarkable poster to mark the end of the franchise and the death of Jason Voorhees, 'Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter' had quite a spine-chilling graphic on it. The iconic image of a knife going through the hockey mask defined the ending well but unfortunately, the poster was considered to be too extreme and the image was replaced with the hockey mask, with no knife at all.
Old Poster:
© Paramount Pictures
New Poster:
© Paramount Pictures
Remember the movie? If you haven't seen it or heard of it, it's time. Although the concept is quite warped. It's about a girl who's sworn to chastity but she falls in love with a boy and when they get around to doing it, she discovers she's a living example of the vagina dentata myth (a vagina with sharp teeth).
She uses that to her advantage and if anyone tries to act fresh with her, she dismantles his member through her vaginal teeth! Okay, I just gave the plot away but it's absolutely hilarious in the scariest way possible.
The poster is a visual representation of the movie in a very funny, semi-cartoonish way and although the x-ray poster was quite innovative, it was not approved and had to be changed to something a little less uncomfortable. Yeah, a girl in the bathtub, naked, with her legs apart. Great job on making it a little less uncomfortable, guys.
Old Poster:
© Roadside Attractions
New Poster:
© Roadside Attractions
The poster was the 8th part of this franchise and was actually quite harmless and really simple too, depicting fairly well what the movie was about. It had Jason slashing his way through the classic 'I heart NYC' logo and that was the main problem. The New York Tourism Bureau was not happy with the way the logo was shown and since they had the copyright on it, they decided to not give the original poster the approval. It was later changed to Jason's mask towering over New York's skyline and that was an absolute awesome poster too.
Old Poster:
© Paramount Pictures
New Poster:
© Paramount Pictures
Silent Night, Deadly Night' was one of the most controversial horror movies to ever be made in the 80s and all the parents were dead against it. I mean, I don't blame them if Santa's going around town killing kids in the movie!
The movie luckily survived a ban but the poster had to be changed. The original one had an evil man dressed like Santa holding an axe. Even though it was an animated poster, it was still taken down due to protests against it. It was later changed to 'Santa's' hand brandishing an axe, while he's making his way through the chimney *shudders*.
Another one came out later which had a creepy looking reindeer with a red-light backdrop. I don't see the difference really. Isn't that Rudolph?
Old Poster:
© TriStar Pictures
New Poster:
© TriStar Pictures
The poster had a skull with knives coming out of it. Completely scary I agree, and that's why it was pulled off when the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) received about 13 complaints from parents, saying their children were facing distress after viewing the poster at a local underground subway in London.
It was later changed to the characters in the movie standing on a collapsing bridge.
Old Poster:
© Warner Bros. Pictures
New Poster:
© Warner Bros. Pictures
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