The Best Horror Movies of 1999

 The Top Ten

#10

Stigmata

When a young woman becomes afflicted by stigmata, a priest is sent to investigate her case, which may have severe ramifications for his faith and for the Catholic Church itself.

#9

The Bone Collector

A quadriplegic ex-homicide detective and his partner try to track down a serial killer who is terrorizing New York City.

#8

Lake Placid 

Three people attempt to stop a gigantic crocodile, who is terrorizing residents in Black Lake, Maine.

#7

Ravenous 

In a remote military outpost in the 19th century, Captain John Boyd and his regiment embark on a rescue mission which takes a dark turn when they are ambushed by a sadistic cannibal.

#6

Deep Blue Sea 

Searching for a cure to Alzheimer's disease, a group of scientists on an isolated research facility become the prey, as a trio of intelligent sharks fight back.

#5

Stir of Echoes 

After being hypnotized by his sister-in-law, a man begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around him.

#4

Sleepy Hollow 

Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitations of three people, with the culprit being the legendary Headless Horseman.

#3

Audition 

A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all.

#2

The Blair Witch Project 

Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.

#1

The Sixth Sense 

A boy who communicates with spirits seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist.

A Guilty Pleasure

Idle Hands

A teenage slacker's right hand becomes possessed with murderous intent.

The Best Horror Movies of 1998

The Top Ten

#10

Deep Rising

A group of heavily armed hijackers board a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific to loot it, only to do battle with a series of tentacled, man-eating sea creatures who had already invaded the ship.

#9

The Last Broadcast

A film crew ventures into the forest in search of the mythical Jersey Devil.

#8

Vampires

Recovering from an ambush that killed his entire team, a vengeful vampire slayer must retrieve an ancient Catholic relic that, should it be acquired by vampires, will allow them to walk in sunlight.

#7

Bride of Chucky

Chucky, the doll possessed by a serial killer, discovers the perfect mate to kill and revive into the body of another doll.

#6

Halloween H20:

Twenty Years Later

Laurie Strode, now the dean of a Northern California private school with an assumed name, must battle the Shape one last time, as the life of her own son hangs in the balance.

#5

The Faculty

When Casey Connor, Herrington High School's newspaper photographer, witnesses the murder of a nurse and sees her alive again, she decides to investigate the bizarre happenings.

#4

Apt Pupil

A boy blackmails his neighbor after suspecting him to be a Nazi war criminal.

#3

Fallen

Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after, the killings start again, and they are very similar to Reese's style.

#2

Blade

A half-vampire, half-mortal man becomes a protector of the mortal race while slaying evil vampires.

#1

The Ring

A reporter and her ex-husband investigate a cursed video tape that is rumored to kill the viewer seven days after watching it.

A Guilty Pleasure

Urban Legend

A college student suspects a series of bizarre deaths are connected to certain urban legends.

The Best Horror Movies of 1997

The Top Ten

#10

Nightwatch

A law student, who takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue, begins to discover clues that implicate him as the suspect of a series of murders.

#9

I Know What You Did

Last Summer

Four young friends bound by a tragic accident are reunited when they find themselves being stalked by a hook-wielding maniac in their small seaside town.

#8

Event Horizon

A rescue crew investigates a spaceship that disappeared into a black hole and has now returned...with someone or something new on-board.

#7

Alien: Resurrection

Two centuries after her death, Ellen Ripley is revived as a powerful human/alien hybrid clone. Along with a crew of space pirates, she must again battle the deadly aliens and stop them from reaching Earth.

#6

Mimic

Three years ago, an entomologist genetically created an insect to kill cockroaches carrying a virulent disease. Now, the insects are out to destroy their only predator, mankind.

#5

Scream 2

Two years after the first series of murders, as Sidney acclimates to college life, someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string of killings.

#4

Cube

Six complete strangers with widely varying personalities are involuntarily placed in an endless maze containing deadly traps.

#3

Devil's Advocate

When a hotshot Florida lawyer accepts an offer to work for a New York City law firm, he and his wife find themselves on the receiving end of trouble when his boss turns out to be the Devil himself.

#2

Funny Games

Two violent young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic games with one another for their own amusement.

#1

Cure

A frustrated detective deals with several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.

A Guilty pleasure

The Relic

A homicide detective and an anthropologist try to destroy a South American lizard-like god, who's on a people eating rampage in a Chicago museum.

The Best Horror Movies of 1996

The Top Ten

#10

Tremors 2: Aftershocks

Earl Bassett, now a washed-up ex-celebrity, is hired by a Mexican oil company to eradicate a Graboid epidemic that's killing more people each day. However, the humans aren't the only ones with a new battle plan.

#9

The Arrival

Zane, an astronomer, discovers intelligent alien life. But the aliens are keeping a deadly secret, and will do anything to stop Zane from learning it.

#8

Fear

When Nicole met David; handsome, charming, affectionate, he was everything. It seemed perfect, but soon she sees that David has a darker side. And his adoration turns to obsession, their dream into a nightmare, and her love into fear.

#7

The Craft

A newcomer to a Catholic prep high school falls in with a trio of outcast teenage girls who practice witchcraft, and they all soon conjure up various spells and curses against those who anger them.

#6

The Ghost and the Darkness

A bridge engineer and an experienced old hunter begin a hunt for two lions after they start attacking local construction workers.

#5

The Stendhal Syndrome

A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession.

#4

The Frighteners

After a tragic car accident that kills his wife, a man discovers he can communicate with the dead to con people. However, when a demonic spirit appears, he may be the only one who can stop it from killing the living and the dead.

#3

From Dusk till Dawn

Two criminals and their hostages unknowingly seek temporary refuge in a truck stop populated by vampires, with chaotic results.

#2

Thesis

While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured to death.

#1

Scream

A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a new killer, who targets the girl and her friends by using horror films as part of a deadly game.

A Guilty Pleasure

Bad Moon

After being bitten by a werewolf in the jungle, Ted looks for a cure. His lawyer sister, with a son and dog, invites him to park his camper by her house in the woods and live out of her fridge.

The Best Horror Movies of 1995

The Top Ten

#10

Demon Knight

A man on the run is hunted by a demon known as the Collector.

#9

The Prophecy

At the scene of a bizarre murder, a Los Angeles homicide detective discovers a lethal heavenly prophecy now being fulfilled on earth. In his fight to stop the forces of evil, he finds an unlikely ally in an elementary school teacher.

#8

Lord of Illusions

A private detective gets more than he bargains for when he encounters Philip Swan, a performer whose amazing illusions captive the world, but they are not really what everyone thinks.

#7

Castle Freak

A man struggles to save his family from the strange and deadly occurrences in the castle they've inherited.

#6

Haunted

A skeptical professor visits a remote British estate to debunk allegations of psychic phenomena but soon finds himself haunted by a ghost from his own past.

#5

Habit

Sam has broken up with his girlfriend, and his father has recently died. World-weary and sloppy drunk, he finds temporary solace in the arms of Anna, a mysterious vampire who draws him away from his friends and into a web of addiction and madness.

#4

Copycat

An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.

#3

The Addiction

A New York philosophy grad student turns into a vampire after getting bitten by one, and then tries to come to terms with her new lifestyle and frequent craving for human blood.

#2

The Day of the Beast

Bent on committing as many sins as possible to avert the birth of the beast, a Catholic priest teams up with a Black Metal aficionado and an Italian connoisseur of the occult to become an unrelenting sinner.

#1

Seven

Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.

A guilty Pleasure

Species

A group of scientists try to track down and trap a killer alien seductress before she successfully mates with a human.