Video may very well have killed the radio star, but streaming definitely killed the video store. There is a certain nostalgic sheen that those pre-Blockbuster days have taken on, those days when families migrated to the local mom and pop video store on a Friday night and wandered the aisles in search of something to watch, but the truth of the matter was that the process was very frustrating. The advantages that the streaming revolution has over those VHS days are myriad—no more waiting in line, no more frustration that the movie you wanted to watch wasn’t in stock, no more leaving the house, even!—but there is one thing that we find ourselves missing from time-to-time: the captivating VHS artwork that you’d see when browsing the aisles.

Now that we’re in the midst of Stream & Scream month, we’ve been experiencing some flashbacks of the VHS covers that haunted us in our youth. Specifically, the titles in the horror section that left psychic scars we can still feel to this day. Films like Faces Of Death, Hellraiser and I Spit On Your Grave had cover art so audacious that we would never even DREAM of asking our parents to rent them. Movies that spooked us so much that even when we came of age, we dared not watch them.

Here’s a smattering of retro box art for horror films on VHS that you are DEFINITELY going to want to flip through with the lights on.

What did we miss? Let us know in the comments!