The early '90s brought unrivaled critical acclaim for the horror genre, with
The Silence of the Lambs sweeping the major Academy awards in 1992, a year after Kathy Bates won the Oscar for Best Lead Actress for
Misery and Whoopi Goldberg won for Best Supporting Actress for
Ghost. Such success seemed to spur studios into funding large-scale horror-themed projects, such as
Interview with the Vampire,
Bram Stoker's Dracula and
Wolf. In 1996,
Scream's runaway success reignited the slasher flame, spawning similar films, such as
I Know What You Did Last Summer and
Urban Legend. At the end of the decade,
Blade foreshadowed the coming flood of comic book adaptations, and Asian horror movies like
Ringu and
Audition signaled a new influence on American fright flicks. Meanwhile, 1999 witnessed two of the biggest surprise hits of the decade, regardless of genre, in
The Sixth Sense and
The Blair Witch Project.
1990: Arachnophobia
1990: Ghost
1990: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
1990: Misery
1991: The Silence of the Lambs
1992: Bram Stoker's Dracula
1992: Candyman
1992: Dead Alive
1993: Cronos
1993: Jurassic Park
1993: Leprechaun
1994: Interview with the Vampire
1994: Wolf
1995: Se7en
1996: The Craft
1996: From Dusk Till Dawn
1996: Scream
1997: Funny Games
1997: I Know What You Did Last Summer
1998: Blade
1998: Fallen
1998: Ringu
1998: Urban Legend
1999: Audition
1999: The Blair Witch Project
1999: The Mummy
1999: The Sixth Sense
1999: Sleepy Hollow
