How Well Do You Remember These ’90s Horror Films?
After the gory slashers that dominated the ’80s, horror films in the ’90s took a different track. It’s not that they didn’t get bloody at times — but the decade’s horror cinema was often trying to do something else besides just deliver shocks. The Silence of the Lambs, the only horror film to ever win Best Picture at the Academy Awards, showed that the much-maligned genre could be prestigious, a place for the most acclaimed actors of the era to strut their stuff. The Blair Witch Project, for all intents and purposes, created the “found footage” film. Scream critiqued teen slasher films while being one, and set off a revival of teenybopper terrors that included hits like I Know What You Did Last Summer. The Sixth Sense revived the twist ending. Edward Scissorhands and Ghost told gothic love stories set in the modern world.
It was an era that changed horror forever (and not just because many of those films ended up yielding yielding tons of sequels, or got rebooted or adapted into TV series). But how much do you remember about the cinematic terrors from that age of flannel shirts and dial-up internet? Take our quiz and find out.
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