There have been some horror movies through the years that would’ve looked incredible on a NASCAR racecar.
A few months ago, I did a similarly titled article musing on various theoretical movie-themed paint schemes that would’ve been cool to see. This time, Halloween is Thursday (Oct. 31) of this week, so it feels right to tailor that toward horror.
I’m going to kind of approach this with last week’s article in mind, which took into account how cyclical Hollywood is and with various trends and everything, and I’ll try to start around the beginning of the previous millennium’s final decade: the 1990s. The first movie scheme ran in 1989 (Dale Jarrett‘s Ghostbusters II car), which was at the tail end of the golden age of horror movies.
For context, the 1980s were an insanely awesome decade for the genre. You have a wide range of horror comedies (Creepshow), sci-fi (The Thing), slashers (Friday the 13th), body horror (Re-Animator), anthologies (Halloween III) and so much more. This also ranges from little-movies-that-could like The Evil Dead to international productions like Possession.
So, focusing on the three full decades and change that NASCAR movie schemes have been around, let’s look at this by decade. This is going to cover more big-studio fare rather than indie films (a la Hereditary, Midsommar, The Babadook, etc), given their prominence in the mainstream — and despite those indie films’ popularity.
1990s
The 1990s are where horror started to take a downturn, one that kind of lasted for a good 20+ years or so until indie horror began to really take hold and enter more of a mainstream. But that doesn’t mean all scary movies released during that time were bad!
There’s a dearth of good options in the early part of the decade. Gremlins 2: The New Batch, sure. Director Joe Dante was gracious enough to chat with me about making the original and the sequel at Nightmare Weekend Richmond last year.
Other prominent properties that were alive and kicking (their in-movie victims, not so much) during that span included the Child’s Play, Alien and Candyman franchises. One might have needed a JJ Yeley Slayer- or Natalie Decker zombie-esque scheme for Braindead, aka Dead Alive — one of Peter Jackson’s first movies, before he took the Lord of the Rings‘ reins. That movie has so much blood in it.
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