Favorite Horror Movies from the 90's?
 

It's hard for me to believe that the 90's were so long ago because I grew up in that decade lol. Anyways what are some of your favorite horror movies from the 90's? Here is my list.

Tom Savini's remake of Night of the Living Dead
The Craft
Bride of Chucky
IT
Tim Burton's version of Sleepy Hollow
The Blair Witch Project
Leprechaun 3

Savini's remake of NOTLD is a great flick!

Some of mine...

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
The Exorcist III
Body Parts
Raising Cain
Nightbreed
Misery
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
From Dusk Till Dawn
In The Mouth Of Madness
Candyman
Tremors
Dr Giggles
People Under The Stairs

The 90s definitely were a decade where horror tried to reinvent itself and perhaps become more legitimate and move away from gore/splatter. I'd class a lot of the films from the era as thrillers rather than straight up horror (Se7en or Silence of the Lambs for example). It also saw the rise of the horror-comedy with Army Of Darkness and Braindead and for better or worse the found footage film. Looking back it was a pretty important decade for shaping modern horror.

I completely agree! In fact it was the first zombie movie that I ever watched and it was the whole reason that I fell in love with the zombie genre. :)

The Sixth Sense
Se7en
Army of Darkness
Jacobs Ladder
Misery
Silence of the Lambs
Arachnophobia
Flatliners
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Scream
The Devil’s Advocate
Fallen
Jurassic Park
Blade

This is a really trashy movie, but I like Modern Vampires which stars Casper Van Dien. It's a mix of horror and comedy and instead of portraying vampires as supernatural ghouls hiding in coffins they're more like sociopathic rich white people who rule the world and do whatever they want to whoever they want..There's a brilliant scene of the vampires partying in a nightclub in downtown Los Angeles called "The Hellfire Club" where they dance away in S&M outfits while a bunch of naked humans are kept in cages and tied to the walls to be fed on, some are even hooked up to blood machines and served as bar drinks. Every character in this movie is an evil scumbag including the humans themselves. Also Casper Van Dien is just so sexy in this movie. ::love::

In no particular order, these were among my favourites:

In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
The Blair With Project (1999)
Sixth Sense (1999)
The Faculty (1998)
Event Horizon (1997)
Ring (1998)
Tremors (1990)
The Craft (1996)
The People Under the Stairs (1991)
Audition (1999)
Cube (1997)
Idle Hands (1999)
Ravenous (1999)
From Dusk till Dawn (1996)

I loved The Craft. I don't believe in witchcraft/wicca anymore but that movie made it look so believable and real, plus it didn't make witches out to be a bunch of satan worshipping heathens like every other witchcraft movie before that one did.

Yeah I was 12 when that movie came out which was a pretty good age for it I think. It definitely gives some nostalgic feels when I think about it.

Halloween 6 is a fantastic 90's movie, as it's about safety ending itself so that inspiration can't be a copied experience

from dusk til dawn
 

From dusk till dawn is a terrible movie. It's not really a vampire movie at all. The director isn't interested in vampires. He's interested in gunfire.

Have you seen Bordello of Blood? My reaction to that movie was "They've proved that they can make a terrible vampire movie for a fraction of what it cost Quentin Tarantino."

I admit that I liked From dusk till dawn III because of Sonia Braga.

That said, I liked Bride of Chucky (Jennifer Tilly), and I liked Sleepy Hollow, tho a friend of mine said it was "repetitious." Well, it made a promise in the ad, and it kept it. Heads rolled. I am a big Tim burton fan.

Not sure how well it's held up but I enjoyed it in the 90's. Lot of fun. Btw Robert Rodriguez directed, Tarantino wrote the screenplay.

My pubescent self will always be grateful that it gave me this:
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growing up with horror movies
 

Time sure makes changes. I was a teenager in the 1970s, and I am pleased that so many of the horror movies that got no respect at the time are now considered classics. I see some movie in my cable listings and think "They give this movie four stars! I never would have expected that."

Defect in Bram Stoker's Dracula
 

Keanu Reeves has learned to act a little since "Bill and Ted's excellent adventure" but I still think his performance as Jonathan Harker was pathetic.

One interesting think about Anthony Hopkins's performance is that he tried to talk kind of like Van helsing does in the book. The only other actor, to my knowledge, who tried to do that is Frank Finlay, in the tv movie of Dracula that starred Louis Jourdan

Hee hee! I remember that when Bram Stoker's Dracula came out, some critics praised it for its faithfulness to the book, proving that they had not read the book.

Sleepy Hollow and Sweeney Todd are my two all-time favorite movies by Tim Burton because they aren't just horror, they are horror-fantasy. I especially love the fact that Sweeney Todd is a musical because that makes it an extra unique horror movie. Johnny Depp is a great actor and Christina Ricci in Sleepy Hollow and Helena Bonham Carter in Sweeney Todd gave such excellent performances.

As for Quentin Tarantino... I really don't like any of his movies. I mean there was a time when I liked the Kill Bill movies until I realized just how ridiculous they were. ::big grin::

Oh and Bride of Chucky was great. I loved Jennifer Tilly as Tiffany she added something special to the Child's Play series.

Keanu Reeves' acting in Dracula is absolutely atrocious. That guy is really hit or miss, with about a 50% success rate! Thumbsucker was really the first movie that I thought...oh hey, he can act! Just not all the time.

Keanu plays Harker very straight-laced, subdued, a model of self-control -- perhaps an architype of the era and setting -- which I thought was, in principle, authentic. Did he lack acting range when it was required? Maybe... but I don't remember being lost as to where Harker was in thought and feeling when I watched the film.

In fact, I found Reeves more memorable and accessible than David Manners was in Dracula (1931) -- but considering my criticism of Manners in my Dracula review, that isn't a ringing endorsement of Reeves -- but does mark a trait of the Harker character himself. Who do we want to play Harker, Chris Tucker?