Horror Films of the 1990s

by John Kenneth Muir

Overview

This filmography covers more than 300 horror films released from 1990 through 1999. The horror genre's trends and cliches are connected to social and cultural phenomena, such as Y2K fears and the Los Angeles riots. Popular films were about serial killers, aliens, conspiracies, and sinister "interlopers," new monsters who shambled their way into havoc.

Each of the films is discussed at length with detailed credits and critical commentary. There are six appendices: 1990s cliches and conventions, 1990s hall of fame, memorable ad lines, movie references in Scream, 1990s horrors vs. The X-Files, and the decade's ten best. Fully indexed, 224 photographs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476679013
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication date:	04/18/2019
Pages:	714
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.43(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

John Kenneth Muir is an American literary critic and award-winning author of more than 35 books in the fields of film and television, with a particular focus on horror and science fiction as well as the creator of the award-winning web series Abnormal Fixation and the audio drama Enter the House Between. He is an associate professor of humanities and communication, and lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     
Preface     

PART I: IT DEPENDS ONWHAT THEMEANING OF THEWORD “IS” IS: AN INTRODUCTION     
PART II: THE HORROR GENOME PROJECT: A DECADE OF ALIENS, CONSPIRACIES, INTERLOPERS, SERIAL KILLERS, SCIENCE RUN AMOK AND OTHER GRIM TRENDS     
PART III: THE FILMS (BY YEAR OF RELEASE)     

1990
The Ambulance     
Arachnophobia     
Baby Blood     
Basket Case 2     
Blood Games     
Blood Salvage     
Blue Steel     
Brain Dead     
Bride of Re-Animator     
A Cat in the Brain     
Child’s Play 2: Chucky’s Back     
Dead Alive     
Def by Temptation     
Demonia     
The Exorcist III     
Fear     
The First Power     
Flatliners     
Frankenstein Unbound     
Ghost     
Graveyard Shift     
Gremlins 2: The New Batch     
Grim Prairie Tales     
The Guardian     
Hardware     
The Haunting of Morella     
Jacob’s Ladder     
Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3     
Luther the Geek     
Maniac Cop 2     
Misery     
Mr. Frost     
Night of the Living Dead     
Nightbreed     
Pacific Heights     
Predator 2     
Prom Night 3: The Last Kiss     
Shakma     
Sorority House Massacre 2     
Soultaker     
Syngenor     
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie     
Tremors     
Troll 2     

1991
Alligator 2: The Mutation     
Begotten     
Blood Massacre     
Body Parts     
Campfire Tales     
Cape Fear     
Children of the Night     
Child’s Play 3: Look Who’s Stalking     
Critters 3     
Dead Again     
Eve of Destruction     
Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare     
Haunting Fear     
Hiruko the Goblin     
The Masque of the Red Death     
976-Evil 2: The Astral Factor     
The People Under the Stairs     
Popcorn     
Puppet Master 2 (His Unholy Creations)     
Puppet Master 3: Toulon’s Revenge     
The Reflecting Skin     
Servants of Twilight     
La Setta (a.k.a. The Devil’s Daughter, Demons 4)     
The Silence of the Lambs     
Sleeping with the Enemy     
Subspecies     
Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat     
Terminator 2: Judgment Day     
Two Evil Eyes     
The Unborn     
The Vanishing.     
Warlock     
Xtro 2: The Second Encounter     

1992
Alien3     
Amityville 1992: It’s About Time     
Army of Darkness     
Basic Instinct     
Basket Case 3: Progeny     
The Boneyard     
Bram Stoker’s Dracula     
Buffy the Vampire Slayer     
Candyman     
Dr. Giggles     
Dolly Dearest     
Dust Devil     
The Gate II (The Trespassers)     
Ghoulies 3: Ghoulies Go to College     
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle     
Hellraiser 3: Hell on Earth     
Highway to Hell     
Innocent Blood     
Jennifer 8     
The Lawnmower Man     
Needful Things     
Netherworld     
Pet Semetary 2     
Poison Ivy     
Prom Night IV: Deliver Us from Evil     
Raising Cain     
The Resurrected     
The Runestone     
Single White Female     
Sleepwalkers     
Split Second     
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me     
Waxwork II: Lost in Time     

1993
Amityville: A New Generation     
Carnosaur     
Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice     
The Crush     
The Dark Half.     
Demon Possessed.     
Fire in the Sky     
Ghost in the Machine     
Ghoulies IV     
The Good Son     
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday     
Jurassic Park     
Kalifornia     
Leprechaun     
Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence     
Man’s Best Friend     
Night Terrors     
Puppet Master 4: The Demon      
Return of the Living Dead III     
Skeeter     
Subspecies 2: Bloodstone     
The Temp     
To Sleep with a Vampire     
The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter     
The Vanishing     
Warlock: The Armageddon.     
Zombie Bloodbath     

1994
Blink     
Body Snatchers     
Brainscan     
Cronos     
Dario Argento’s Trauma     
Interview with the Vampire     
Leprechaun 2     
Lurking Fear     
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein     
Mother’s Boys     
Natural Born Killers     
Night of the Demons 2     
Nightwatch (Nattevagten)     
Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead     
Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings     
Puppet Master 5 (The Final Chapter)     
The Puppet Masters     
The River Wild     
Subspecies 3: Bloodlust     
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation     
The Unborn 2     
Wes Craven’s New Nightmare     
Wolf     

1995
The Addiction     
Candyman 2: Farewell to the Flesh     
Carnosaur 2     
Castle Freak     
Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest     
Copycat     
Embrace of the Vampire     
The Fear     
The Girl with the Hungry Eyes     
Grim     
Halloween VI: The Curse of Michael Myers     
Hideaway     
The Ice Cream Man     
In the Mouth of Madness     
Jack-O     
Leprechaun 3     
Lord of Illusions     
The Mangler     
Outbreak     
The Prophecy     
Relative Fear     
Roadflower     
Rumpelstiltskin      .     
Se7en     
Sleepstalker: The Sandman’s Last Rites     
Sorceress     
Species     
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight     
Tales from the Hood     
A Vampire in Brooklyn     
Village of the Damned     
Virtuosity     
Wes Craven Presents Mind Ripper     
Witchboard 3: The Possession     
Xtro 3: Watch the Skies     

1996
The Arrival     
Bad Moon     
Cemetery Man     
Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering     
The Craft     
The Dentist     
Diabolique     
The Fan     
Fear     
The Frighteners     
From Dusk Till Dawn     
The Ghost and the Darkness     
Haunted     
Hellraiser IV: Bloodlines     
The Island of Dr. Moreau.     
Mary Reilly     
Necronomicon: Book of the Dead     
Night of the Demons 3     
Pinocchio’s Revenge     
The Sandman     
Scream     
Screamers     
Thinner     
Tremors: Aftershocks 2     

1997
Alien Resurrection     
Amityville Dollhouse     
An American Werewolf in Paris     
Anaconda     
Breakdown     
Campfire Tales     
The Devil’s Advocate     
Event Horizon     
I Know What You Did Last Summer     
Jack Frost     
Kiss the Girls     
Leprechaun 4: In Space.     
Lost Highway     
The Lost World: Jurassic Park 2     
Mimic     
Night Flier     
Poison Ivy: The New Seduction     
The Relic     
Scream 2     
Snow White: A Tale of Terror     
Switchback     
Tales from the Crypt: Bordello of Blood     
Uncle Sam     
The Ugly     
The Vampire Journals     
Wes Craven Presents Wishmaster     

1998
Apt Pupil     
Blade     
Bride of Chucky     
Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror     
Curse of the Puppet Master     
Death Mask     
Deep Rising     
Devil in the Flesh     
Die Hard Dracula.     
Disturbing Behavior     
The Faculty     
Fallen     
Godzilla     
Halloween H20     
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer     
John Carpenter’s Vampires.     
The Last Broadcast     
Nightwatch     
Phantasm IV: Oblivion     
Phantoms     
The Prophecy 2     
Psycho     
Psycho Sisters     
Ringu     
The Second Arrival     
The Shivers     
Species 2     
Sphere     
Subspecies 4: Bloodstorm     
Tales of the Mummy     
Urban Legend     
Wes Craven Presents Carnival of Souls     
Wicked     
The Wisdom of Crocodiles     
The X-Files: Fight the Future     

1999
The Astronaut’s Wife     
Bats     
The Blair Witch Project     
The Bone Collector     
Candyman 3: Day of the Dead     
Children of the Corn 666: Isaac’s Return     
The Coroner     
Deep Blue Sea     
End of Days     
Eyes Wide Shut     
The Fear: Halloween Night     
From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money     
The Haunting     
The House on Haunted Hill     
In Dreams     
Knocking on Death’s Door     
Lake Placid     
The Ninth Gate.     
The Rage: Carrie 2     
Ravenous     
Retro Puppet Master     
Resurrection     
Shikoku     
The Sixth Sense.     
Sleepy Hollow     
The Stendahl Syndrome     
Stigmata     
Stir of Echoes     
Teaching Mrs. Tingle     
Virus     
Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies     
Witchouse     

PART IV: CONCLUSION—A NEW CENTURY DAWNS     
Appendix A: 1990s Horror Conventions     
Appendix B: The 1990s Horror Hall of Fame     
Appendix C: Memorable Ad Lines     
Appendix D: Movie References in Scream (1996)     
Appendix E: Horror Films of the 1990s vs. The X-Files     
Appendix F : The Ten Best Horror Films of the 1990s     

References     
Bibliography     
Index     

Editorial Reviews

easy-to-use resource on horror films as well as pop culture of the decade”—Booklist

From the Publisher

Muir's writing is entertaining as well as informative, and will enable you to revisit each of your favorites with a somewhat different perspective than usual...a high-quality, hard-backed book...will give you hours and hours of enjoyment, as you revisit your memories of this decade, and revisit the films afterwards. Recommended

The Thunder Child

Muir is probably the best-known, if not the best authority on contemporary horror films, and this latest edition in his ongoing series will be a welcome addition to the library of any fan of the genre...the body of each entry is devoted to Muir's excellent commentary. Highly recommended

Choice

easy-to-use resource on horror films as well as pop culture of the decade

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