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Best Horror Movies of the 1990s
#1 Ninja Scroll (1993) · ★ 7.8 · 784 votes · 1h 34m · action, fantasy, adventureJubei is a masterless ninja who travels the land alone, lending his services to those with gold—or a worthy cause. His fearsome abilities have served him well, but a plot to overth…
#2 Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998) · ★ 7.7 · 861 votes · 1h 17m · horror, animation, familyAfter going their separate ways, Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, Velma, Daphne, and Fred reunite to investigate the ghost of Moonscar the pirate on a haunted bayou island, but it turns out the…
#3 Cure (1997) · ★ 7.6 · 880 votes · 1h 51m · thriller, horror, crimeA frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.…
#4 The Devil's Advocate (1997) · ★ 7.5 · 7,032 votes · 2h 24m · thriller, drama, horrorAspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a job at a New York law firm. With the stakes getting higher every case, Kevin quickly learns that his boss has something far mo…
#5 Thesis (1996) · ★ 7.5 · 980 votes · 2h 5m · thriller, horrorWhile working on a thesis about audiovisual violence, film student Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that she was a former student…
#6 Scream (1996) · ★ 7.4 · 8,254 votes · 1h 52m · horror, crime, mysteryA year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.…
#7 Interview with the Vampire (1994) · ★ 7.4 · 6,611 votes · 2h 3m · fantasy, drama, horrorA vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.…
#8 Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) · ★ 7.4 · 5,935 votes · 2h 8m · romance, horrorCount Dracula, a 15th-century prince, is condemned to live off the blood of the living for eternity. Young lawyer Jonathan Harker is sent to Dracula's castle to finalise a land dea…
#9 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) · ★ 7.4 · 2,353 votes · 2h 15m · drama, horror, mysteryIn the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended,…
#10 Jacob's Ladder (1990) · ★ 7.4 · 2,007 votes · 1h 53m · drama, horror, mysteryAfter returning home from the Vietnam War, veteran Jacob Singer struggles to maintain his sanity. Plagued by hallucinations and flashbacks, Singer rapidly falls apart as the world…
#11 Braindead (1992) · ★ 7.4 · 1,931 votes · 1h 43m · comedy, horrorWhen a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove's mother, she's transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town while Lionel races to keep things u…
#12 Army of Darkness (1992) · ★ 7.3 · 3,691 votes · 1h 29m · comedy, fantasy, horrorAsh, a handsome, shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed department store clerk, is time warped backwards into England's Dark Ages, where he romances a beauty and faces legions of the undea…
#13 Funny Games (1997) · ★ 7.3 · 2,184 votes · 1h 49m · thriller, drama, horrorTwo psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.…
#14 The Day of the Beast (1995) · ★ 7.3 · 640 votes · 1h 44m · action, comedy, thrillerWhen a rogue priest discovers the exact date the Antichrist will be born, he enlists a Death Metal record store clerk and a cheesy TV psychic for an urban spree of gore, sacrilege…
#15 Sleepy Hollow (1999) · ★ 7.2 · 7,617 votes · 1h 45m · fantasy, thriller, dramaSkeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders…
#16 In the Mouth of Madness (1995) · ★ 7.2 · 1,995 votes · 1h 35m · fantasy, thriller, dramaAn insurance investigator visits a small town while looking into the strange disappearance of a popular horror novelist. He soon finds that the impact of the author’s books is far…
#17 From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) · ★ 7.1 · 6,727 votes · 1h 48m · action, thriller, horrorAfter kidnapping a father and his two kids, the Gecko brothers head south to a seedy Mexican bar to hide out in safety, unaware of its notorious clientele.…
#18 Ring (1998) · ★ 7.1 · 1,740 votes · 1h 36m · thriller, horrorA mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her…
#19 Tremors (1990) · ★ 7.0 · 3,725 votes · 1h 36m · action, comedy, horrorVal McKee and Earl Bassett are in a fight for their lives when they discover that their desolate town has been infested with gigantic, man-eating creatures that live below the grou…
#20 The Frighteners (1996) · ★ 7.0 · 1,833 votes · 1h 50m · comedy, horrorOnce an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his "special" gift is the result of a car accident that k…
#21 The Witches (1990) · ★ 7.0 · 1,427 votes · 1h 31m · comedy, fantasy, horrorWhile staying at a hotel in England with his grandmother, Helga, a young boy named Luke inadvertently spies on a convention of witches. The Grand High Witch reveals a plan to turn…
#22 Blade (1998) · ★ 6.9 · 7,002 votes · 2h 1m · action, horrorThe Daywalker known as "Blade" - a half-vampire, half-mortal man - becomes the protector of humanity against an underground army of vampires.…
#23 Night of the Living Dead (1990) · ★ 6.9 · 1,007 votes · 1h 28m · horrorA ragtag group barricade themselves in an old Pennsylvania farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls ravaging the Northeast.…
#24 Cemetery Man (1994) · ★ 6.9 · 595 votes · 1h 44m · comedy, horrorFrancesco Dellamorte is the groundskeeper at a cemetery where the dead just won’t stay dead—and it’s up to him to deal with those who come back to life with a hunger for human fle…
#25 Death Becomes Her (1992) · ★ 6.8 · 3,108 votes · 1h 44m · comedy, fantasy, horrorMadeline is married to Ernest, who was once her arch-rival Helen's fiancé. After recovering from a mental breakdown, Helen vows to kill Madeline and steal back Ernest. Unfortunatel…
#26 The Craft (1996) · ★ 6.8 · 2,138 votes · 1h 41m · fantasy, drama, horrorA Catholic school newcomer falls in with a clique of teen witches who wield their powers against all who dare to cross them -- be they teachers, rivals or meddlesome parents.…
#27 The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) · ★ 6.8 · 1,154 votes · 1h 49m · action, adventure, thrillerSir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great un…
#28 The Good Son (1993) · ★ 6.8 · 1,082 votes · 1h 27m · thriller, drama, horrorA young boy stays with his aunt and uncle, and befriends his cousin who's the same age. But his cousin begins showing increasing signs of psychotic behavior.…
#29 Ravenous (1999) · ★ 6.8 · 730 votes · 1h 41m · comedy, adventure, dramaAfter arriving at his new, remote Army outpost, Capt. John Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman who recounts a horrifying tale of a wagon train murdered by its supposed…
#30 Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995) · ★ 6.8 · 580 votes · 1h 33m · comedy, thriller, horrorEx-soldier Frank Brayker is the guardian of an ancient key that can unlock tremendous evil; the sinister Collector is a demon who wants the key so he can initiate the apocalypse. O…
#31 Candyman (1992) · ★ 6.7 · 1,875 votes · 1h 40m · thriller, drama, horrorThe Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.…
#32 Stir of Echoes (1999) · ★ 6.7 · 1,416 votes · 1h 39m · thriller, horror, mysteryAfter being hypnotized by his sister-in-law, Tom Witzky begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around her.…
#33 Fear (1996) · ★ 6.7 · 1,139 votes · 1h 37m · thriller, horrorNicole Walker always dreamed of being swept away by someone special — someone strong, sexy and sensitive who would care for her more than anything else in the world. David is all t…
#34 Cronos (1993) · ★ 6.7 · 800 votes · 1h 34m · thriller, drama, horrorFaced with his own mortality, an ingenious alchemist tried to perfect an invention that would provide him with the key to eternal life. It was called the Cronos device. When he die…
#35 Fire in the Sky (1993) · ★ 6.7 · 744 votes · 1h 49m · thriller, drama, horrorAfter clearing brush for the government, a group of men return to town claiming their friend was abducted. Despite no apparent motive or evidence of foul play, no-one believes thei…
#36 Society (1990) · ★ 6.7 · 664 votes · 1h 40m · comedy, horror, mysteryBill Whitney is worried that he is different to his sister and parents. They mix with other upper-class people while Bill is more down to earth. Even his girlfriend seems a bit odd…
#37 Event Horizon (1997) · ★ 6.6 · 3,491 votes · 1h 36m · horror, science-fiction, mysteryIn 2047, a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the starship Event Horizon which disappeared mysteriously seven years before on its maiden voyage. However, it so…
#38 The Faculty (1998) · ★ 6.6 · 2,379 votes · 1h 44m · horror, science-fiction, mysteryWhen creepy things start happening at Herrington High, the students begin to suspect that their faculty is being controlled by body-snatching aliens.…
#39 Return of the Living Dead III (1993) · ★ 6.6 · 928 votes · 1h 37m · romance, horror, science-fictionHaving recently witnessed the horrific results of a top secret project to bring the dead back to life, a distraught teenager performs the operation on his girlfriend after she's ki…
#40 The People Under the Stairs (1991) · ★ 6.6 · 799 votes · 1h 42m · comedy, thriller, horrorTrapped inside a fortified home owned by a mysterious couple, a young boy quickly learns the true nature of the homicidal inhabitants, and secret creatures hidden deep within the w…