Top Ten 90’s Horror Films
By the 1990’s, the slasher films had been exhausted so filmmakers had to come up with something different to entice the audience. Sure, fans still wanted to see crazed killers chasing innocent victims but it had to be done in a new way. In case you slept through the decade, here are the top ten 90’s horror films.
- The Sixth Sense – This is the movie where the famous line “I see dead people” comes from. Bruce Willis is a counselor trying to help a young boy who sees people who have died. Without a doubt, it has one of the best twisted endings of any horror movie ever.
- From Dusk ‘Til Dawn – When Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez do vampires, you know it is going to be over the top. A pair of criminal brothers who are on the run make it across the Mexican border. They make a fatal mistake when they stop at a strip club inhabited by vampires.
- Scream – The teen slasher film was dead before this movie came out. With a little humor and campiness, it still managed to be suspenseful and downright scary. It did a great job of playing up to all the stereotype elements of a slasher flick.
- The Blair Witch Project – The success of this movie spawned a ton of clones, all using the fictional documentary theme. A group of young filmmakers enter a section of woods rumored to be haunted by a legendary witch. They find out that there is some truth behind the legend.
- Wes Craven’s New Nightmare – After the first Nightmare on Elm Street, the other sequels were less that spectacular. The villain Freddy Kruger even got a sense of humor (sort of). This movie made the franchise fresh again by introducing Freddy into the real world.
- Army of Darkness – Everyone say “This is my boomstick”! One of Sam Raimi’s best works for its combination of camp and horror. Our hero Ash from the previous Evil Dead films gets thrown into the Middle Ages where he has to find the Necronomicon if he wants to get back home.
- Ravenous – Not so well-known but it still deserves its place due to its unique story. An army man during the Mexican-American war gets promoted to a secluded fort. Army life gets interrupted when a man shows up who survived the mountains by eating the members of his wagon train.
- Cemetery Man – Rupert Everett is a man who takes care of a town’s cemetery. When he has sex with a mysterious but beautiful woman, they unleash a horde of zombies from the cemetery. The caretaker must then go around town and put them all back.
- Dead Alive – Before The Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson was known for horror. A young man lives with his mother who, after being bitten by a rat monkey, turns into a zombie. Jackson must love cinematic blood because this movie is filled with it.
- Tremors – It makes Army of Darkness look like a serious piece of work, but Tremors is definitely one of the most memorable from the 90’s. A group of giant, worm-like creatures that burrow underground like Bugs Bunny set about terrorizing residents in a desert town. One of the best things is seeing Reba McIntyre as a gun-toting survivalist.
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