Vintage Horror Movie Trailers from the 1990s

In this shallow but stylish supernatural thriller, Lou Diamond Phillips plays a police detective hunting an executed serial killer who returns from the grave with satanic powers.

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From William Friedkin, the director of The Exorcist, comes this slick tale of a young couple who hire a seemingly perfect nanny who turns out to be an evil being who intends to sacrifice their new baby to a Druid tree god.

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This Kevin Bacon horror-comedy about giant underground worms feeding on a small desert town spawned three sequels and a TV show.

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By the time the '90s rolled around, the slasher sub-genre was mired in a rut that was exemplified by this lame entry in the once-proud Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, featuring increasingly silly kills and a desperate attempt at 3-D technology. Although it was billed as the "final" film in the series, Freddy Krueger would return to the big screen three more times.

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One of the most critically acclaimed American horror/suspense movies of all time, the iconic serial killer thriller The Silence of the Lambs remains one of only three films -- along with One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest and It Happened One Night -- to win the "Big Five" Academy Awards: Best Film, Director, Screenplay, Actor and Actress.

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Candyman introduced one of the great horror villains of the '90s in the Clive Barker-created titular character, the ghostly lynched son of a slave (Tony Todd) with a hook for a hand who has become an urban legend that appears if you say his name five times into a mirror.

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Known outside North America as Braindead, this New Zealand zombie-comedy brought director Peter Jackson into the international limelight, leading to high-profile, mainstream gigs like King Kong, The Lovely Bones and the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

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In the early '90s, virtual reality technology was the hot new thing, and this VERY loose Stephen King adaptation (King reportedly sued to have his name removed from anything related to the film.) exploits it in a Frankenstein-like tale utilizing then-dazzling computer effects.

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Horror masters Stephen King and George Romero collaborate for this mind-bending tale of an author whose pseudonym develops a mind of his own and seeks to kill anyone he feels is responsible for his "death."

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Before she was famous, Jennifer Aniston starred in this B-movie about a homicidal leprechaun in search of his stolen gold, inexplicably spawning five sequels over the next decade.

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