25 Best Horror Movie Posters Of All Time, Ranked

Film is a visual medium and horror movies are particularly adept at embracing that fact. Few other genres are consistently as visually inventive and aesthetically bold as horror tends to be. This inclination is mirrored in the posters that accompany each film. A movie poster is always an opportunity to do something visually interesting. After all, a studio is quite literally commissioning a piece of visual art. More often than not, what’s released follows simple conventions, depicting the main cast alongside the name of the film, but every now and then, a film markets itself alongside something that could hang in a gallery.