Decade
1990s Horror
The horror that defined the 1990s — ranked by Crypt Score, from era-defining classics to the deep cuts worth resurrecting.
527 titles
Quicksilver Highway
›PG-131997 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 90m · Christopher Lloyd, Matt Frewer, Raphael Sbarge
Aaron Quicksilver is a mysterious storyteller whose listeners invariably end up as the subjects of his gruesome, grisly tales. He tells a new bride stranded on a desert highway a horrifying account of a set of carnivorous toy teeth, then entrains a pickpocket with the spine chilling story of an army of murderous, disembodied hands.
Sorority House Massacre II
›NR1990 · Comedy, Horror, Thriller · 80m · Gail Harris, Melissa Moore, Peter Spellos
Five college women buy the old Hokstedter place for their new sorority house. They got it cheap because of the bloody incidents from five years before. They decide to stay in it for the night so they can meet the movers in the morning, but begin to get the creeps when the weird neighbor Orville Ketchum starts poking around. Shortly after the women take showers and consult a Ouija board they begin experiencing an attrition problem.
The Temp
›R1993 · Drama, Mystery, Thriller · 97m · Timothy Hutton, Lara Flynn Boyle, Dwight Schultz
Peter Derns, an executive at Mrs. Appleby's Cooke Company, fears his future prospects are crumbling fast, until the arrival of Kris Bolin, a gorgeous, cooly efficient temp - and sultry temptress - who helps him develop a marketing campaign that slays the competition. But after two executives mysteriously die, Peter discovers his job security may vanish due to the one person he needs to trust: his temp.
The Borrower
›R1991 · Science Fiction, Comedy, Horror · 90m · Rae Dawn Chong, Don Gordon, Tom Towles
Aliens punish one of their own by sending him to earth. The alien is very violent, and when the body he occupies is damaged, he is forced to find another.
The Suckling
›1990 · Horror · 89m · Frank Rivera, Marie Michaels, Gerald Preger
A woman goes to a back alley abortion clinic, only to have her aborted fetus attack her, her boyfriend, and everyone else at the clinic.
Arcade
›1993 · Fantasy, Horror, Thriller · 85m · Megan Ward, Peter Billingsley, John de Lancie
Alex Manning and her friends decide to visit the local video arcade known as "Dante's Inferno" where a new virtual reality arcade game called "Arcade" is being test marketed by a computer company CEO. However, it soon becomes clear that the teenagers who lose are being imprisoned inside the virtual reality world by the central villain "Arcade" and takes over their minds.
Witch Hunt
›1994 · TV Movie, Comedy, Fantasy · 100m · Dennis Hopper, Penelope Ann Miller, Eric Bogosian
Magic and murder connect an actress, a private eye, a senator and a witch in 1950s Hollywood.
Killer Crocodile 2
›1990 · Horror · 87m · Richard Anthony Crenna, Debra Karr, Ennio Girolami
The Caribbean swamps which is to be made into a holiday resort is terrorized again by a second monstrous crocodile which is killing off anyone unfortunate to be on the water.
Syngenor
›R1990 · Horror, Science Fiction · 98m · Starr Andreeff, Mitchell Laurance, Jeff Doucette
A scientist engineers a group of genetically engineered cyborgs for use as "super soldiers" to fight U.S. wars in the Middle East. However, things get ugly when the cyborgs malfunction and turn on their creators.
Project: Metalbeast
›R1995 · Horror · 92m · Kim Delaney, Barry Bostwick, Kane Hodder
With the medical breakthrough of a metal-based synthetic skin called "bio-ferron" the prospect for pioneering surgeries for burn victims and cancer patients seems set to occur but for the warped head scientist in charge...it's a opportunist chance to reactivate a long forgotten classified project...that has been left frozen in a set of cryogenic chambers deep beneath the bowels of government laboratory. Convincing the other in the research team to start work on putting this living 'metal' skin on corpses, he now has the perfect test patients waiting on ice for them to work on. But there was a reason three of these stiffs in particular where left to chill. Due to an experiment gone bad these three only look human on the outside and none of them are as dead as everyone believes they are.
The Haunting of Morella
›1990 · Horror, Thriller, Romance · 82m · David McCallum, Nicole Eggert, Christopher Halsted
An executed witch inhabits her teenaged daughter's body to continue in the pursuit of bloodshed.
The Refrigerator
›1991 · Fantasy, Comedy, Horror · 86m · Julia McNeal, Dave Simonds, Phyllis Salaberrios
A couple move into a bad apartment in a bad neighborhood in New York. The apartment contains a refrigerator, which is the only thing they like in the place. However, they slowly discover that the refrigerator is a monster which kills people in gruesome ways and then sends them to hell. The refrigerator is already gaining mind control over the husband. What will happen?
Witchouse
›R1999 · Horror · 72m · Ariauna Albright, Matt Raftery, Monica Serene Garnich
On Mayday 1998 in the town of Dunwich, Massachusetts, Elizabeth gathers together a group of specially selected friends for a rather odd party. It turns out that she is the descendent of a malevolent witch named Lilith who was burned at the stake precisely three hundred years ago. Now Elizabeth hopes to resurrect her dreadful ancestor and has a specific (and murderous) need for the guests she has chosen
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
›R1995 · Horror, Thriller · 95m · Tony Todd, Kelly Rowan, William O'Leary
Annie, a young schoolteacher struggling to solve the brutal murder of her father, unwittingly summons the "Candyman" to New Orleans, where she learns the secret of his power, and discovers the link that connects them.
Bordello of Blood
›R1996 · Horror, Comedy · 87m · Dennis Miller, Erika Eleniak, Angie Everhart
Private eye Rafe Guttman is hired by repressed, born-again Katherine to find her missing bad-boy brother. The trail leads him to a whorehouse run by a thousand-year-old vampire and secretly backed by Katherine's boss, televangelist Jimmy Current.
Diabolique
›R1996 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 107m · Sharon Stone, Isabelle Adjani, Chazz Palminteri
The wife and mistress of a cruel school master collaborate in a carefully planned and executed scheme to murder him. The plan goes well until the body, which has been strategically dumped, disappears. The psychological strain starts to weigh on the two women when a retired police investigator begins looking into the man's disappearance on a whim.
Dr. Giggles
›R1992 · Horror, Comedy · 95m · Larry Drake, Holly Marie Combs, Cliff DeYoung
In 1957, Evan Rendell flees after his father is lynched for killing multiple patients in his effort to find a replacement heart for his ailing wife. After 35 years, Evan escapes from a mental institution and returns to town for revenge, killing off residents one by one. When Jennifer and her friends break into the Rendell house out of morbid curiosity, Evan notices Jennifer has a heart condition similar to his mother and decides to make her his final victim.
Ice Cream Man
›R1995 · Comedy, Horror · 84m · Clint Howard, Justin Isfeld, Anndi McAfee
Young Gregory Tudor sees his local ice cream man murdered and later grows up to inherit his business, opting to inject gruesome ingredients—including human body parts—into his frozen confections. When one of the neighborhood boys goes missing, the local kids suspect Gregory and band together to get to the bottom of things.
Basket Case 3
›R1992 · Horror, Comedy · 90m · Kevin Van Hentenryck, Annie Ross, Gil Roper
Duane recovers from his delusional breakdown to find his freakish basket-bound brother Belial will soon become a father. But not everything is joyous as the once tight knit brothers no longer seem to trust each other.
Dollman vs. Demonic Toys
›R1993 · Horror · 64m · Tim Thomerson, Tracy Scoggins, Melissa Behr
The Demonic Toys are back, so policewoman Judith Grey seeks the help of 12 inch tall Dollman and his 12 inch tall girlfriend, Nurse Ginger. The Toys hole up in an evil deserted toy factory and it's up to Dollman to keep the Toys from summoning the powers of darkness to the Earth.
Hellbound
›R1994 · Horror, Action, Thriller · 95m · Chuck Norris, Calvin Levels, Christopher Neame
Two Chicago police officers are sent to investigate the brutal murder of a rabbi. As the investigation begins, Shatter and Jackson are summoned to Israel for questioning. Upon arrival they realize that they are, in fact, pursuing a supernatural being.
Demon Wind
›R1990 · Horror · 96m · Eric Larson, Francine Lapensée, Rufus Norris
The strange and brutal deaths of Cory’s grandparents has haunted him for years. Determined to discover the truth, he has returned to the desolate region where they lived, along with a group of friends, to try and uncover the mystery. Ignoring warnings from the locals that the area is cursed, Cory and his friends soon realize that the legend is true, as the Demon Wind, possesses and destroys them, one by one, turning them into monsters from hell.
The Rift
›R1990 · Action, Horror, Mystery · 82m · Jack Scalia, R. Lee Ermey, Ray Wise
An experimental submarine with a very experienced crew, the "Siren II" is sent to find out what happened to the "Siren I" after it mysteriously disappeared in a submarine rift. Things go awry when they begin to find things that shouldn't be there...
The Curve
›R1998 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 91m · Matthew Lillard, Michael Vartan, Randall Batinkoff
Two roommates plan to kill a third to take advantage of college policy giving a 4.0 grade to a suicide's roommates.