The Crypt Charts
The Top 13 Horror Movies of 1999
The thirteen horror films of 1999 that the crypt judged worthiest, ranked by the Crypt Score.
Ranked by Crypt Score · Updated weekly · captured Jul 20, 2026
Eligibility: a title needs at least 2 rating sources and 1,000+ votes to chart — no thin-data entries.
The Talented Mr. Ripley
R1999 · Thriller, Crime, Drama · 140m · Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
Sleepy Hollow
R1999 · Fantasy, Thriller, Mystery · 105m · Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon
Skeptical 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 the townsfolk attribute to a legendary specter, The Headless Horseman.
Stir of Echoes
R1999 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 99m · Kevin Bacon, Kathryn Erbe, Illeana Douglas, Zachary David Cope
After 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.
The Blair Witch Project
R1999 · Horror, Mystery · 81m · Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, Michael C. Williams, Bob Griffin
In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.
Summer of Sam
R1999 · Crime, Drama, Thriller · 142m · John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino, Jennifer Esposito
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
Ravenous
R1999 · Adventure, Western, Horror · 101m · Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, David Arquette, Jeremy Davies
After 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 guide – a vicious U.S. Army colonel gone rogue. Fearing the worst, the regiment heads out into the wilderness to verify the gruesome claims.
Don't Look Under the Bed
PG1999 · TV Movie, Family, Horror · 93m · Erin Chambers, Ty Hodges, Robin Riker, Steve Valentine
A girl calls on her brother's imaginary friend to banish a mischievous boogeyman who has framed her for his pranks.
Curse of the Blair Witch
NR1999 · Documentary, Drama, Horror · 44m · Frank Pastor, Rachel Braaten, Randy Campbell, Dottie Corrigan
A Mockumentary exploring the life of the Blair Witch and the three missing student filmmakers.
Cremaster 2
1999 · Fantasy, Horror, Western · 79m · Norman Mailer, Matthew Barney, Lauren Pine, Scott Ewalt
CREMASTER 2 is rendered as a gothic Western that introduces conflict into the system. On the biological level it corresponds to the phase of fetal development during which sexual division begins. In Matthew Barney's abstraction of this process, the system resists partition and tries to remain in the state of equilibrium imagined in Cremaster 1.
The Ninth Gate
R1999 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 133m · Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin, Emmanuelle Seigner
A rare book dealer finds himself at the heart of a string of paranormal events when he is hired to find the last two copies of a text, The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, capable of summoning the Devil.
The Bone Collector
R1999 · Crime, Thriller, Drama · 118m · Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie, Queen Latifah, Michael Rooker
Lincoln Rhyme was the department's top homicide detective and leading expert in criminal forensics until an injury left him paralyzed, depressed, and incapable of working. But when a gruesome murder in Manhattan leaves detectives baffled, they call on Rhyme to help solve the mystery. Amelia Donaghy, a rookie cop whose quick thinking preserved a gruesome murder scene, is enlisted by Rhyme to be his on-the-scene forensics expert. With Amelia reluctantly acting as Rhyme's able-bodied go-between, the pair piece together cryptic clues the killer leaves behind at the scene of the crime, hoping to catch the grisly serial killer.
Tower of Terror
NR1999 · Comedy, Family, Horror · 89m · Steve Guttenberg, Kirsten Dunst, Nia Peeples, Michael McShane
A disgraced reporter investigates an abandoned luxury hotel where five people mysteriously disappeared sixty years earlier.
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