The Horror of "1990"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ronnie21]

OK, just wanna flashback a little here with the Horror films that invaded us in the year 1990, where they worth it? Did horror run its course by this time?
I was 17 at the time and me and my friend were going to the theaters every friday to see something new. Movies were cheaper than.
Heres what i seen and didn't see.
January- Texas chainsaw massacre III - leatherface, kinda liked it better than. It didnt last long in the theaters
Feb. NightBreed, didnt really care for this one dont think it stayed in theaters that long.
March, dont think there was really much horror this month.
April - we had tales from the darkside the movie, had real high hopes for this since i was a fan of the show. ANOTHER letdown. also later that month -The Guardian, now this i liked. good gore and suspense.
Sorry. tales came out in may. also, The First Power, not sure but maybe half horror/half thriller. it wasnt bad.. But forgetable.
Now really wasnt much else in terms of horror, Exorcist III, child's Play 2, graveyard shift, and Misery was more of a thriller.. Oh, almost forgot. Night of the living Dead 1990. Liked it.. seen it on big screen..
But even at 17 i seen all the slashers/horror was kinda old by that year..
Am i forgetting any?
A pretty forgetable year, nothing earthshattering. Funny in that year. No freddie, no jason. No michael myers.

[Mutilated Prey]

Jacob's Ladder was the best from the year imo. And then you have Pledge Night too

Cat in the Brain is no slouch either.

[Erick H.]

I saw all of those mentioned so far in the theater except CHAINSAW 3.Not a terrible year but not a gem either.The decade as a whole was kind of like that.

My memory of 90's horror isn't the fondest as I felt the genre was eclipsed by the ''psychological thriller'',the monicker that the major studios applied to large budgeted films that they were ashamed to label ''horror''.Many of them would have qualified as slashers or the like if a major studio HADN'T backed them.They tried to class them up with a more adult sounding genre description,trying to draw in a crowd that would have passed on HALLOWEEN 5 or PIECES.
There was a short lived trend toward gothics early in the decade (BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA,MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN ,MARY REILLY etc.) but the genre was pretty sputtery until the later part of the decade when the post modern slashers started hitting,ironic stuff like SCREAM ,I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (actually almost a throwback) and URBAN LEGEND.A lot of folks would say SCREAM kickstarted the revival of the ''teen'' horror film but I think you can look back a few months earlier and see that THE CRAFT had a lot of the same elements and was a solid little hit in it's own right.
There were some good horror pics in the 90's certainly but I think some of the more interesting stuff was happening abroad at the time.

[CPT HOOK]

Blood Games, Blood Salvage, and Buried Alive were all from 1990 as well.

[Hellbilly]

From my Flashback threads where I did each year: 1990

Not too shabby I'd say.

[buck135]

Bram Stoker's Dracula, Jacob's Ladder, Exorcist 3 and NOTLD 90 are stand outs for me.

[maybrick]

My local theater was more or less starting to go out of business at that point so they began holding over blockbuster films for weeks on end and hardly ever replacing them with anything new. They almost never played horror films anymore, except maybe The Exorcist III, but I did manage to see Night of the Living Dead and The Guardian out of area. Night was great, but The Guardian was totally ridiculous, I thought. All of the others I rented as soon as they hit video.

[DVD-fanatic-9]

Originally Posted by Hellbilly

Not too shabby I'd say.

As I've said dozens of times throughout the years. Misery, Gremlins 2, Arachnophobia, Henry, Def by Temptation, Hardware, and Tremors were all good films.

Weird problem with your list though as there's no jury in the world that would convict The Witches or Wild at Heart as horror movies. I mean, you could say Witches is very much like Gremlins 2 on the surface but even you can tell me: which one of those is clearly a children's movie? Compare the opening & closing credits music of Witches with the expanded/updated Gremlin Rag / Gremlin "Suite" in Gremlins 2. Witches has monster makeup, horrific scenes, and creepy moments for sure but it doesn't go all the way. Gremlins 2 does. Violent death (Christopher Lee's heartless execution/electrocution), no-nonsense sexual suggestiveness (Haviland Morris shoving her foot in Zach Galligan's crotch), intelligent humor (Brain gremlin's "what we want / civilization" speech).