News

Vintage Dutch Safety Posters Look Like Horror Movie Posters

Published

5 years ago

August 4, 2017

How much blood would you shed to… be sent home from work?

Workplace safety posters here in America are pretty boring, often featuring cartoonish, nondescript people humorously getting electrocuted and maimed. But Dutch safety posters from the early-mid 1900s, well, it turns out they were haunting works of art that could very easily double for horror movie posters.

One of my all-time favorite movie quotes comes from Se7en. John Does says to Mills and Somerset, “Wanting people to listen, you can’t just tap them on the shoulder anymore. You have to hit them with a sledgehammer, and then you’ll notice you’ve got their strict attention.” These vintage Dutch safety posters take the same approach, using horrifying tactics to essentially, and ironically, scare employees into being safe at the workplace.

After all, no company wants to shell out money for workplace injuries.

Check out a crazy gallery of vintage safety art below, all via Memory of the Netherlands!

News

SCREAMBOX Now Streaming Grindhouse Releasing Library Including Fulci’s ‘The Beyond’!

Published

1 week ago

April 1, 2022

John Squires

The SCREAMBOX streaming service is now powered by the Bloody Disgusting team, and “Freddy’s Nightmares” was only the beginning of what we have in store for ya here in 2022.

In the coming months we’ll be bringing you Takashi Shimizu’s Suicide Forest Village and the documentary Pennywise: The Story of IT, but first up let’s talk about TODAY’s new arrivals.

Now available on SCREAMBOX, you can stream SIX classic horror movies from the Grindhouse Releasing library, including two films from Italian horror master Lucio Fulci!

Grindhouse comes to SCREAMBOX today with…

The Beyond (1981) – Directed by Lucio Fulci

A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural “accidents”, she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.

Cannibal Ferox (1981) – Directed by Umberto Lenzi

Three friends set out to disprove cannibalism on a trip to the Amazonian jungle, where they meet two men trying to escape a vicious cannibal tribe.

Cannibal Holocaust (1980) – Directed by Ruggero Deodato

During a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew.

A Cat in the Brain (1990) – Directed by Lucio Fulci

A horror film director is stalked by a mad psychiatrist/serial killer bent on killing people to model the killings after the director’s gory death scenes from his movies.

I Drink Your Blood (1970) – Directed by David E. Durston

A group of Satanic hippies wreak havoc on a small town where a young boy, whose sister and grandfather were victimized by them, tries to get even – with deadly results.

Pieces (1982) – Directed by Juan Piquer Simón

The co-eds of a Boston college campus are targeted by a mysterious killer who is creating a human jigsaw puzzle from their body parts.

Start streaming SCREAMBOX’s Grindhouse Releasing titles today!

Subscriptions include unlimited movies and shows, with no ads: Month to month pricing is $4.99, while you can get discounted rates at 3 months ($11.99) or one year ($39.99).

ALL PLANS INCLUDE THE FIRST 30 DAYS *FREE*!

Sign up for Screambox here and become a premium subscriber.