
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

Embrace of the Vampire
›R1995 · Horror, Fantasy, Romance · 92m · Alyssa Milano, Martin Kemp, Harold Pruett
An 18-year-old college freshman is seduced by a handsome vampire lover who introduces her to a dark world of carnal desires.

Strangeland
›R1998 · Horror · 86m · Kevin Gage, Elizabeth Peña, Brett Harrelson
A pierced and tattooed sadist, Captain Howdy, trolls the Internet for naive teens, luring them to his home to torture and defile them. When Howdy kidnaps and tortures the daughter of police Detective Mike Gage, he is caught. Deemed insane, he is sent to an asylum but is released soon after, seemingly better. However, Gage knows it is only a matter of time before Howdy strikes again, and he's ready to unleash his own form of retribution when the time comes.

Curse of the Puppet Master
›R1998 · Horror · 78m · George Peck, Emily Harrison, Josh Green
Andre Toulon's diminutive assassins take up residence at The House of Marvels, a traveling doll circus run by Dr. Magrew, who has been trying to create a living doll of his own with little success.

Sometimes They Come Back... Again
›R1996 · Horror · 98m · Michael Gross, Alexis Arquette, Hilary Swank
Jon Porter comes home for a funeral and walks straight back into hell. The demons who butchered his sister are back, nastier than ever, and now they want his daughter, body and soul.

Komodo
›PG-131999 · Adventure, Horror, Thriller · 89m · Kevin Zegers, Jill Hennessy, Billy Burke
During the 70's, some Komodo Dragon eggs were dumped on an North Carolina island. Somehow, the baby Komodos survived, and twenty years later they have grown up and taken over the island for themselves. Young Patrick has lost his parents and his dog to the lizards, but didn't see them himself, which has left him traumatized. Now, with his therapist Victoria, they return to confront his fears.

Initiation: Silent Night, Deadly Night 4
›R1990 · Horror · 87m · Maud Adams, Tommy Hinkley, Allyce Beasley
A reporter investigating the bizarre death of a woman who leaped from a building in flames finds herself mixed up in a cult of witches who are making her part of their sacrificial ceremony during the Christmas season.

Ghost in the Machine
›R1993 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror · 95m · Karen Allen, Wil Horneff, Chris Mulkey
After a freak, fatal accident, the soul Karl—aka The Address Book Killer—ends up trapped in the electrical grid. He targets Terry and her son for his next victims, turning home technology against them as deadly weapons.

Pinocchio's Revenge
›R1996 · Horror, Mystery · 95m · Rosalind Allen, Todd Allen, Candace McKenzie
Defense attorney Jennifer Garrick acquires a Pinocchio puppet from a condemned serial killer. Her pre-teen daughter, Zoe, mistakes the puppet as a birthday present and grows attached to her new friend. Suddenly, accidents begin to happen to those who cross Zoe. Zoe claims it's her Pinocchio doll but her therapist thinks otherwise. Pinocchio promises he'll behave if Zoe will cut his strings...

The Invisible Maniac
›R1990 · Science Fiction, Comedy, Horror · 86m · Peter Noel Duhamel, Melissa Moore, Savannah
An invisible scientist escapes from an asylum and teaches high-school physics to nubile teens.

Lurking Fear
›R1994 · Horror, Crime · 77m · Jon Finch, Blake Adams, Ashley Laurence
The storm-swept and depopulated town of Leffert’s Corners has been terrorized for decades by grotesque creatures that breed in the depths beneath the local cemetery. A group of townspeople have hatched a last-ditch plan to destroy the ghoul-infested graveyard, but their mission is interrupted by the arrival of a band of violent thieves intent on retrieving money hidden in one of the graves.

Killer Tomatoes Eat France!
›NR1992 · Horror, Comedy, Science Fiction · 94m · John Astin, Tom Katsis, Marc Price
After being busted out of jail by his tomatoes, Professor Mortimer Gangreen begins a new plot to take over the world by inserting his hapless lackey Igor into the throne of the King of France.

The Fear
›1995 · Horror · 102m · Eddie Bowz, Heather Medway, Ann Turkel
Richard, a college student who has decided to focus his attention on the study of fear, invites a group of friends up to his family's secluded mountain cabin for the weekend. Soon, a lifelike, wooden carving of a man begins stalking and killing them.

The Island of Dr. Moreau
›PG-131996 · Science Fiction, Horror · 96m · Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer, David Thewlis
A plane crash surviving attorney stumbles upon a mysterious island and is shocked to discover that a brilliant scientist and his lab assistant have found a way to combine human and animal DNA—with horrific results.

Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest
›R1995 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Daniel Cerny, Ron Melendez, Jim Metzler
After a couple adopts a pair of orphaned brothers, it becomes alarmingly clear the boys are much more than they seem.

Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering
›R1996 · Horror · 85m · Naomi Watts, Brent Jennings, Samaria Graham
A bright young medical student must solve the frightening mystery that plagues the children of a small Midwestern town.

Retro Puppetmaster
›PG-131999 · Horror · 80m · Greg Sestero, Brigitta Dau, Stephen Blackehart
Andre Toulon, living a peaceful life as a puppeteer in pre-WWI Paris, encounters the renegade sorcerer Afzel, who has stolen the mysterious secrets of life from the dark god Sutekh.

Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College
›R1990 · Horror, Comedy · 94m · Evan MacKenzie, Eva LaRue, Kevin McCarthy
A college teacher brings the little creatures back to his campus, where they proceed to terrorize the faculty and students.

Amityville: A New Generation
›R1993 · Horror · 92m · Ross Partridge, Julia Nickson, Lala Sloatman
Keyes, a successful photographer who lives at the border of Skid Row, notices a homeless man with a strange old mirror. Immediately struck by it for reasons he cannot explain, he convinces the man to sell it to him, soon behaving in increasingly erratic and unhinged ways.

Cruel Jaws
›PG-131995 · Horror, Thriller, Adventure · 94m · David Luther, George Barnes Jr., Scott Silveria
A tiger shark bred by the Navy as a killing machine is wreaking havoc in the sleepy tourist town of Hampton Bay.

Piranha
›R1995 · Horror, TV Movie · 89m · William Katt, Alexandra Paul, Monte Markham
Doctor Baines has been conducting genetic experiments on piranhas and has made them virtually unstoppable. Unfortunately, his assistants, Maggie and Paul, accidentally release the hybrids into the Lost River Lake threatening to destroy everyone in their path. Can they prevent the flesh-eating piranhas from escaping into the ocean and spawning?

House IV
›R1992 · Thriller, Horror, Comedy · 94m · Terri Treas, William Katt, Scott Burkholder
Unaware that it's plagued by a host of supernatural phenomena, a mother and her daughter, still reeling from a car crash which claimed the life of Roger Cobb, move into the hold family homestead to start a new life.

Mind Ripper
›R1995 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 91m · Lance Henriksen, Claire Stansfield, John Diehl
A top secret experiment intended to produce a superhuman has gone terribly wrong. Now the creators, trapped in a remote desert outpost, are being pursued ruthlessly by their creation.

Killer Tomatoes Strike Back!
›PG1991 · Science Fiction, Comedy, Horror · 87m · Crystal Carson, Steve Lundquist, John De Bello
Police assitant Boyle along with tomatologist Kennedi Johnson look into investigations about Killer Tomato attacks, and discover Gangrene plans to brainwash people via TV talk shows to take over the world! Will Gangrene be stopped? Will Johnson become part of a Bacon, Lettuce and Human sandwich?

Xtro 3: Watch the Skies
›R1995 · Horror, Science Fiction, Action · 97m · Sal Landi, Andrew Divoff, Lisa London
Marines on a deserted island are ordered to defuse bombs, but then an alien creature terrorizes them.
