C. M. Rosens

The 90s were a wild time. We got creature features and slashers galore, which moved into the torture porn trend of the ’00s, pushing the boundaries beyond the campy as effects got better. I did manage to whittle it down, and these films basically reflect my inner ’90s self. Horrifying. To nobody’s surprise, most of these films are from 1992, a truly bumper crop that year for me!

As of the time of writing, I’ve logged 65 horror films from the 90s, and the full list (always added to as I go) is here.

Honorary mention to Lurking Fear (1994) dir. C. Courtney Joyner, which is not a good film, but nevertheless is a 90s comfort watch in the Lovecraft vein.

Top 10 Horror Picks

• Nightbreed (1990) dir. Clive Barker

• Event Horizon (1997) dir. Paul W. S. Anderson

• Cronos (1992) dir. Guillermo Del Toro

• The Silence of the Lambs (1991) dir. Jonathan Demme

• Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) dir. Francis Ford Coppola, because I am a basic bitch.

• Ghostwatch (1992) dir. Leslie Manning – I missed this first time around as I was (a) a small and (b) not in the UK at the time. It’s a good time. Parky, how could you, you minx.

• Candyman (1992) dir. Bernard Rose

• Split Second (1992) dir. Tony Maylam

• Sleepy Hollow (1999) dir. Tim Burton

• Blade (1998) dir. Stephen Norrington

Top 10 Horror Runners-Up

• It (1990) dir. Tommy Lee Wallace

• La Setta/The Sect (1991) dir. Michele Soavi

• Tremors (1990) dir. Ron Underwood

• Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997) dir. Michael Cohn

• The Craft (1996) dir. Andrew Fleming

• The Faculty (1998) dir. Robert Rodriguez

• I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) dir. Jim Gillespie

• The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1995) dir. Kim Henkel

• From Dusk Til Dawn (1996) dir. Robert Rodriguez

• Bats (1999) dir. Louis Morneau