90s Horror

Scream is one of the best horrors ever made, that series and the likes of "i know what you did..." are so much better than anything we have seen of that genre since or now and better than some of the "good" ones you listed

Agree about Blair With though.

In the 90s, horror was dead in the water. The horror drought in the first half of the decade was primarily due to the film industry's knee-jerk reaction to the controversy over "too much blood and guts" in the horror films of the 80s. The genre saw a resurgence with Scream, but these were dime-a-dozen slashers with 90210-type casts. Mostly forgettable films. I did enjoy The Blair Witch Project even though it was a product of its time. Take away the mystique and myths and you were left with an average movie.

hmmm?...b movies are films that both the makers of the film and audiences of the film know are stupid and just dont care and try to enjoy making/watching.....the 90's movies you refer to are films that the makers actually tried to make good and that audiences actualyl come in with expectations for.........so i cant stand when people put b movies on a pedestal compared to other films.......youre basically giving certain films a pass because the makers of the film werent trying...in essence....

as to typical formula i dont agree....the formula probably was less...well formulaic in the 90's than ever..........seemms 80's was mostly gore and now its either or all gore or all psychological cliche scares.......but in the 90's take the craft(not really a horror film but) could of been all cgi magical excess...could of been all psychological without the more visually magical pay offs.....if it was made during the 80's it would of been all blood and magic...if it was made before the 80's it would of been boring in attempt to build atmosphere with a half ass attempt for an actual climax at the end.....but cause it was in the 90's it wasnt a masterpiece but it had balance that was missing until 90's........i can say i cared more about the characters in i know what you did last summer than friday the 13th and even my adored nightmare on elm streets......idk if you seen cabin in the woods but it makes fun more easily of the friday the 13ths than the i know what you did last summers.....thats cause in the 90's filmmakers actually *beep* tried and didnt do the whole its a scary movie so *beep* it its gonna suck but its gonna be cool so enjoy it as a b movie cop out routine.......

.......and people are sleeping on blair witch project and the sequel too........i call it the soulja boy effect lol.......soulja boy came into the hip hop scene and was refreshing it wasnt shoot this and crunk that he came with something different....but because once he was successful erybody switched up their style and followed that trend it became suffocating and soulja boy is now viewed as an example of what played a part in ruining hip hop.......even tho it was his successors that ruined it he was actualy revitalizing it and giving it something new.....thats what blair withc did and no other found footage came off as authentic since,no other film did a great job developing characters that would realistically keep filming in the intense situations(people sleep on this fact re-watch a lot of effort went into creating characters that would genuinely act the way they did unlike other found footage films),and no other film succeeded at making the unknown as scary and frustrating...

and scream being dated?...being dated implies that something no longer applies or has an effect cause things have changed...what has changed in horror movies for screams criticism of the formulaic way horror movies are made no longer applies?...it very much applies its straight faced parody of the cliches are very much present today so it cant be dated

art hasnt degraded our ability to appreciate art and even the here and now has depreciated and degraded....we marvel at old ass painting and they get bought for millions of dollars even though they are quite amateur...people today can paint so well it looks like an hd photo and you know what that gets?... a few comments and a few seconds of view time online and a few wows thats neats.......we are in awe and worship van guoh but only give a few minutes of our time to artist who literally can paint realistic hd photos of people.......we have become self loathing more than any generation before us........rant over
Oh great, now it's my dick that's killing me

the 90s have never been considered a great decade for horror films. I don't know anyone who thinks so. There were some decent horror films like Braindead (aka Dead Alive, Candyman etc). For the first half of the decade there were hardly any slasher movies and those who were were horrible then came Scream which revived the genre but then followed some extreme mediocre (but successful) movies.

I don't think Silence of the Lambs or The Sixth Sense were considered horror movies back when they came out. Silence of the Lambs was an award winning thriller and Sixth Sense came out in late 1999 and was more of a ghost drama or something of that similar.

Blair Witch Project was good but then again it came out late in the decade

... just kind of underwhelming.

The 90s is regularly considered one of the weakest decades for Horror.