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Originally Posted by Elvis_Christ
I do agree with you to a certain extent. What really killed horror during this era was the genre becoming to serious... and the genre taking itself to seriously. Scream couldn't just be a slasher flick it had to be a self reflexive parody of the genre. Although I enjoyed the film when it came out I couldn't help but feel it was quite patronizing to a die hard cult trash fan like myself.
The horror films of this era especially after Silence Of The Lambs basically fell more into the thriller category for me. The genre was trying to legitimize itself and I think it suffered for it diluting the purity of horror being a simplistic visceral experience. The early 2000s saw a move back to this but combining it with the more psychological aspects of the 90s thriller films to create some pretty intense flicks especially the stuff that came out of France like High Tension and Inside along with some pretty grizzly underground films like Mordum and Murder Set Pieces.
It was a low point for horror with Scream at the forefront.
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Yeah, there was some good thriller and/or psych horror that came out in the 90s 2000s, like Jacobs Ladder, The Sixth Sense, Lawnmover Man, Seven, The Ring, The Others, Misery, Dead Silence, Vacancy, (and I actually like The Cell). I liked the comedy horror of Arachnophobia, Army of Darkness and Shawn of the Dead.