Video covers that terrified you as a child

I don't know if this was common in other video stores, but in our local one the horror movies would be placed right next to the adult movies. So as a young kid I'd be going in with my parents to get something family friendly, and eyes would stray over to the horror covers, which terrified me but I couldn't stop looking at them, and then I'd look across more and see naked women everywhere. Most people nowadays will talk about the connection between horror and sex in film, it's interesting to think back and see how literal that was in my childhood.

^Oh and sorry, to actually add to the point of your thread, OP, I remember being freaked out by the cover of the Ghoulies movie, with the ghoulie coming out of the toilet. This was also the first horror movie I ever watched, my father let me watch it with him, but I would've been like 6, 7 years old? And he'd let me drink small sips of beer from his bottle.

To this day I love horror movies. But barely ever drink.

Less the cover than the film.

Nothing like this "terrified" me as a child.

Jeezus, there's some real sheltered nervous Nellys around here.

Silence of the lambs. Prob because there were hundreds of copies

R4 calm down, Christina, you whinging, spoiled little cunt.

This one. Boy was I pleasantly surprised! I was 15! It was on the wall next to all the other general rentals!

The Exorcist and Carrie

R7 found the Holy Grail. Never could find a copy, had to wait till YouTube to see that classic.

I am still scarred by the scene where Caligula raped the guy and his wife then castrated him and fed his penis to the dog!😱

I haven't been unsettled by too many video covers. It was those 80s horror novel covers that freaked me out a lot.

This shit right here. I have never watched the film because the box gave me PTSD.

Pretty much any Olsen twins video.

I have a special fear of being suffocated, and it is a favorite torture of psycho killers.

If album covers count, I used to see Motley Crue's "Shout at the Devil" in stores when I was a kid, and it made me feel uneasy, even though I didn't know what a pentagram was.

Of course several years later, it became one of my favorite albums at the time.

"Of course several years later, it became one of my favorite"

Fuck off

Shouldn't your name be Karen? Cunt.

The covers of 1974's Its Alive always brought back memories of seeing the mini trailer on TV as a kid. Supposedly much better than the actual movie. So scary in a dark room when you're 8 years old!

Pam as in Pamela Anderson Lee, r18. You know, the chick who used to be married to Tommy Lee?