Horror fans love to wax poetic about those VHS covers that
beckoned us from video store shelves, teasing us with images of the lurid,
forbidden wonders the movie held. I
probably entered my first video store when I was 10 or 11, but my first
exposure to horror movie box art came much sooner.
When I was a wee lad of 5 or 6, I was fascinated with the small
selection of tapes for rent at the local Winn-Dixie. While my mother grocery shopped, I would stare at those
covers. Being a “family store,” they
didn’t carry anything with extreme box art.
There are two covers, however, that intrigued me. Both were Goodtimes Home Video
releases. One was Killers From
Space. To be honest, those red eyes
really creeped me out for some reason.
The other was Psychomania.
Whereas those eyes gave me the willies, I thought that skull with the
black helmet was awesome. He was like
Skeletor’s cooler brother. Anyway,
those were the first two horror covers I saw, and they burned their way into my
psyche.
Psychomania also figured into outstanding horror artist and
podcaster extraordinaire Brian Steward’s early horror experiences. Brian is
launching a series of authorized prints featuring his take on some classic
poster art, and he’s kicking off the line with the devil worshipping biker gang
classic. "I know it may seem
strange to start a poster series like this with such an unlikely and somewhat
unknown film choice,” he said, “but, for me, Psychomania was the only way to
start. It was, with Alice Sweet Alice and Night Of The Living Dead, my first
exposure to the horror genre. The Christmas I got a VCR, my Mom and Dad got
those movies for me. That's where it all started for me. So, in paying homage
to some of my favorite horror films with this series, it was only fitting to start
at, what was for me, the beginning."
That bad ass biker skeleton has never looked better
either. Check out the print…
1 comment:
TOTALLY fucking sweet, dude.
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