As I look at the horror movie covers from the 50's, I notice that they used much more color than the horror movie covers that have been made in 2014. The covers in 2014 seem like the creators of the cover were trying to be as terrifying as possible. The colors from the 50's seem as if they film makers were trying to take advantage of the new technology of using color rather than to make them look scary. As we look at them now, the reason they don't look scary could be because current media has desensitized the things that we once thought was scary.
Most of the covers in 2014 also use faces with their mouths open, many of them have blood in them or coming out of them. These covers in 2014 make it seem that the person in the picture is screaming for their life while they are in the act of dying. In the pictures in the 50's, more of them have pictures of the villain rather then the person being attacked.