10 Creepiest Horror Movie Posters Of All Time

Tourist Trap was one of the many slasher movies released during the ‘70s, featuring a creepy roadside museum with lethal potential. The usual group of young, beautiful friends soon find out that the museum’s mannequins wield supernatural telekinetic powers, and that the owner himself is also a supernatural killer able to turn the unwitting victims into mannequins.

The movie’s poster, bathed in a sinister red light, is enveloped by the figure of the tourist trap’s killer owner, wearing his slasher disguise - a female mannequin mask of two halves with a gaping mouth and eyeholes. The illustrated mood-lit version of the mask is creepier than even the in-movie source. It recalls internet outsider artist Eric Fournier’s Shaye St. John character.

The figures elongated fingers with red painted talons grip a camera, the lens of which holds a surreal image of a screaming bloody woman. A single drop of blood hangs off the camera. The poster’s surrealism prepares viewers for the bizarre mannequin-based slasher that awaits them.

In addition to the images, the matter-of-fact statement that “every year young people disappear” is chilling and immediately blurs the lines between horror fiction and real-life horrors.