MY TOP 21 90's HORROR MOVIES

So there is a little bit of a plot hole in between this movie and the first Child's Play movie. I think the plot holes only get bigger as the sequels follow. However, this movie is a great sequel. Chucky only becomes more comical and humorous as the Chucky movies continue on. But this movie shared that same horror vibe for me. The cast is solid all around, Andy Barclay who's only done a few movies in his movie career, returns with yet another great performance. You can watch a "Puppet Master" sequel, you can watch "Demonic Toys", you can even watch "Dollman" lol. But nothing sounds better than Brad Dourif as a Good Guy doll. FUN FACT: The only film in the series where entirely Chucky doesn't use a real gun as a weapon (although he does use a squirt-gun as a decoy).

Jacob's Ladder is a very deep psychological thriller, filled with horror elements left and right. Tim Robbins(The Shawshank Redemption) was nowhere near being a well-known actor at the time. Though he had me completely believing that he was a Vietnam veteran. I watched the movie brand new on VHS, and there was scenes that scared me just because I didn't understand what was happening. Normally what movies scare me more are the ones that exceed my imagination. FUN FACT: Director Adrian Lyne used the art of painters William Blake, H.R. Giger, and Francis Bacon and photographers Diane Arbus and Joel-Peter Witkin as his primary influences for the visual style of the film.

Cemetery's tend to come off very eerie feeling. Throw Clive Barker behind the director's chair. Then throw some monsters living underneath the property and make it even more mad. The movie sadly is cut down from being the masterpiece it was intended to be. But you still have a display of gore, a collection of horror characters that any horror lover will see as iconic. Shuna Sassi is my peticular fave. Director David Cronenberg(The Fly) even has a role portraying a slasher murderer. FUN FACT: 20th Century Fox drastically cut this film at the last minute prior to its theatrical release, omitting most of the more graphic violence and completely deleting rock singer Suzi Quatro's role from the final print. Moreover, the movie was misleadingly advertised as just another standard slasher feature.

There's not too many zombie remakes out there when you think about it. Or I should say, 'good zombie remakes'. "Dawn of the Dead" from 2004 might be the only other one I like, still, it's nothing like the original. This movie closely follows the tradition of George Romero's 1968 masterpiece, following even closer to the book as well. Director and special effects master Tom Savini does an amazing job for his only movie ever directed. FUN FACT: Russell Streiner who appeared in the original Night of the Living Dead as Johnny, appears in this movie as Sheriff McClelland, who comments about the zombies, "Yeah, they're dead, they're all messed up."

Jeff Fahey was breaking into the movie industry with horror films from "Psycho III" to "The Lawnmower Man". And he's never left that genre of movies, recently starring in "Planet Terror". I do believe that this movie is the most underrated horror movie on this entire list. It also co-stars Brad Dourif(Child's Play), and has become a forgotten gem that I was fortunate enough to catch brand new. Gore through the roof, story completely original, it won't disappoint. FUN FACT: Advertisements for the movie were cancelled in the state of Wisconsin due to the Dahmer killings.

Tony Todd went from being in "Night of the Living Dead", to this, and next "The Crow". Tony Todd became one of my favorite actors quick in the early 90's. I've never had a fear of bee's or a bloody hook, but tied to Candyman, it's a whole different ball game. I still don't like being in front of mirrors while in a dark room. Too bad we don't have no Clive Barker's today. FUN FACT: The bees were bred specifically for this movie. They needed to make sure that the bees were only 12 hours old so that they looked like mature bees, but their stinger wouldn't be powerful enough to do any real damage.

At a time when horror was falling off the map in the early 90's, "The Lord of the Rings" franchise director Peter Jackson was making a few great horror films. Starting with "Bad Taste" in the late 80's, to the movie "The Frighteners" in the mid-90's, "Dead Alive" was the gem to come out in the middle. It has since become one of the best comedy-horror films of all of the 1990's. FUN FACT: The movie is said to be the bloodiest of all time (measured in amount of film blood used during the production).

Francis Ford Coppola has made some of my most favorite movies over the years. Bram Stoker's "Dracula" is one of those movies I didn't think I would like at first, after I watched it, I was seduced. Gary Oldman(The Professional) has to be one of my all-time favorite chameleon actors. Another similar movie at the time was Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" starring Robert De Niro. FUN FACT: Despite a number of critically acclaimed roles, Gary Oldman has never been nominated for an Academy Award.

Many movie fans who've watched "The Good Son", have not watched this movie. I do believe "Mikey" is the superior of the two, especially when it comes to horror. You have a high body count, a full cast, and professional acting. As far as 'evil child' movies, I'd have to rank this up in the top five. Without the demonic-possessed children. "Village of the Damned" and "Disturbing Behavior" to name a couple teen thrillers. FUN FACT: One of very few films banned in the UK, but not the Republic of Ireland.

I've loved this movie from day one, I don't remember where I first caught it. It's horror, science fiction rolled into a giant psychological action fest. Other 90's Sci-Fi movies such as "Alien 3", or "Body Snatchers" don't even compare on the horror level. Rutger Hauer(The Hitcher) and Kim Catrall(Police Academy) make a great pair of victims. The flooded future London sucks you into the sewers to find this serial killer monster. FUN FACT: Rutger Hauer is color blind.

Melinda Clarke as the lead actress is quite appealing on a zombie-changing attraction. This movie has little to no connection to the previous movies. Instead of a zombie world attacking a group of survivors. You have a one on one romance of Romeo and Juliet, with a zombie twist. There's something about this movie I can never get tired of watching. For a decade that didn't put out a lot of zombie movies, this movie is a gem. FUN FACT:Getting bit by Trioxin zombie in the previous two Return of the Living Dead films did not turn the individual bit into a zombie. However in Return of the Living Dead III it does.

I randomly caught this movie on the late night horror marathons mid-90's, and it's been a while since I've watched it. Infested, also known as "Ticks", reminded me of a much more lower budget "Arachnophobia". Except it was a horror movie, not a comedy, filled with gore and special effects that could make your skin crawl. You have decent early roles from actors, namely Seth Green(Robot Chicken). As far as B-movies go, this movie for me is the king of B-movies of the mid-90's. FUN FACT: Director Tony Randel is also best known for directing the horror movies "Hellbound:Hellraiser II" and "Children of the Night".

Vampires again were booming in the 90's. You have "The Addiction", "Innocent Blood", "Blood & Donuts", "Vampires", and "Interview With The Vampire". This movie though is more of a guilty pleasure for horror lovers. Lots of gore, with awesome lead actors, chopping bodies into endless amounts of limbs. Comedy-horrors were at a high, but none never really came with the originality of "From Dusk Till Dawn". "Tales from the Crypt:Demon Knight" is a solid runner-up as for the comedy-horror movies. I recommend all of the other vampire movies listed above. FUN FACT: Body count: 122

Neve Campbell(The Craft) is one of my top scream queens ranked up there behind Jamie Lee Curtis(Halloween). "Scream" is arguably a slasher movie, in fact it reboot the slasher genre in the late 90's. "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and "Urban Legend" just to name a couple of the titles that followed. "Scream" for me is still the dominant slasher of the 90's. While it's sequels fell short and shorter, and recently not so short, the movies spawned a generation of actors who would all return to the horror genre. Director Wes Craven never disappoints, "The People Under The Stairs", "New Nightmare", and "Wishmaster" are some other great mentions from the 90's. FUN FACT: The killer in the movie was in fact based on a Florida serial killer, the "Gainesville Ripper."

Sam Neill(In The Mouth Of Madness) and Laurence Fishburne(Boyz in the Hood) team up to do this forgotten science fiction horror movie. I watched this movie in theatres, and was shocked at the level of gore in this movie. Later finding out that they cut out much of the gore from the original director's cut. I'm not into movies underwater or in outer space, because that scares me more than real life serial killers. So if the same thing scares you, that's what this movie will do to you. If you want something more sexy or teen friendly sci-fi you'll want to check out either "Species" or "The Faculty" from the 90's. FUN FACT: The script originally described the Gateway machine as a smooth and featureless black orb suspended in midair between large, rotating mechanical arms. Paul Anderson decided to redesign it to involve interlocking circles as a homage to the puzzle box in Hellraiser, which served as an inspiration.

Like the decades before and decades to follow, Stephen King novels have been adapted into film again and again. Some a hit, most a miss. "Thinner" and "Sleepwalkers" just to name a small handful in the 90's. "The Night Flier" I do believe is one of the better King adaptations. Beginning to end I was captured by the acting and mystery. The end, different from the book, was something I had to watch over and over, loving every second of it. A great made-for-TV horror movie. FUN FACT: Lead actor Miguel Ferrer is the first cousin to actor George Clooney.

One of those underwater science fiction action thrillers, with plenty of guts and gore. "Deep Rising" always somewhat reminded me of "Tremors", except stranded over the ocean rather than in the desert. I do love the movie "Tremors" a whole lot, it has some awesome kills. But I've always laughed with it's comedy than be scared of it's horror effects. That's where "Deep Rising" has the horror edge. This movie really has it all, as far as villains, actors, and horror element. I can't name one scene that wasn't cool to watch. Most of the kill scenes I've never seen in another movie. And Treat Williams(The Devil's Own) and Famke Jansen(House on Haunted Hill) were hot to watch. FUN FACT: One of the few films that has no heroes or heroines. Finnegan and his crew are hired for villainous reasons. Trillian is a thief. The mercenaries are simply mercenaries.

In the same year, the movie "The Sixth Sense" was released. And yeah the first time you watch it, there's a scene or two that can make you jump. But after that, it just becomes another great ghost story. "Stir of Echoes" is a horror mystery I can watch over and over again. Kevin Bacon has been a great actor whether he's a hero or a villain in his movies, never nominated for an academy award in any of his movies. "Stir of Echoes" is one of my favorite movies for it's plot line and list of actors. FUN FACT: The hypnosis sequence in which Tom (Kevin Bacon) is hypnotized for the first time follows actual hypnosis techniques used by professional hypnotists. In order to ensure that the audience hasn't been put to sleep (and some susceptible people have been), there's a musical accent at the close of the sequence to wake everyone up.

Before the trilogy of "Paranormal Activity", you had one of the most original, and absolute cheapest horror movies ever made. I still prefer this movie over any of the Paranormal Activity movies, just because of the outside environment. It's not about ghosts or possession, it's not in my bedroom. It's in the woods in the dark in the middle of nowhere. I always watch this movie after a couple years, and I still get into the feeling of being lost in the woods. I think we've all been lost once or twice, and this movie shares that same fear. FUN FACT: The sign for Burkittsville at the beginning of the movie has been stolen three times, and was stolen opening night of the movie.

This movie has some heavy images involving cannibalism. I can't even think of another movie to relate it with off the top of my head. Guy Pearce(Momento) has always been one of those actors that surprises me in his chosen roles. This movie isn't your typical horror movie, but a delightful independent horror nonetheless. FUN FACT: It is 25 minutes into the film before Guy Pearce's lead character, who is in virtually every scene, utters his first full sentence.

This is one of the last favorite Tim Burton movies of mine, before he got into remake after remake of things. Tim Burton in the 90's was a huge success, with "Edward Scissorhands" and "Batman Returns". I've never really read the books of Sleepy Hollow, I've watched the cartoon movies. But I do believe that this movie is a beautiful adaptation of the legend of sleepy hollow. Not to mention the great horror side of it all. I still want to watch more head decapitations lol. FUN FACT: This film features three actors who played Sith Lords in the Star Wars prequels: Ray Park (Darth Maul), Christopher Lee (Count Dooku), and Ian McDiarmid (Darth Sidious).