’90s Horror
15 Episodes
The ’70s shocked you, the ’80s gored you . . . now the ’90s come in for the kill! Our latest Halloween spectacular celebrates an era that saw terror undergo unsettling new transformations. In the ’90s, horror movies got bigger budgets, became playfully self-aware, and even won some Oscars—but they’re just as nasty as what came before. Featuring cult heroes like John Carpenter (IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS) and Abel Ferrara (THE ADDICTION) plunging the dark depths of their uncompromising visions, established auteurs like Francis Ford Coppola (BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA) taking on the genre, and new voices like Ernest R. Dickerson (TALES FROM THE CRYPT: DEMON KNIGHT) and Antonia Bird (RAVENOUS) offering fresh perspectives on familiar tropes, this selection curated by Clyde Folley offers a hair-raising tour through an oft-overlooked decade in horror that’s ripe for rediscovery.
Premieres November 1
BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA, Francis Ford Coppola, 1992
BODY SNATCHERS, Abel Ferrara, 1993
Premieres December 1
EVENT HORIZON, Paul W. S. Anderson, 1997
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01:08Episode 1
’90s Horror Teaser
Episode 1
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1:35:04Episode 2
Def by Temptation
Episode 2
Directed by James Bond III • 1990 • United States
Starring Cynthia Bond, James Bond III, Kadeem HardisonThe sole film directed by writer-producer-star James Bond III is part buddy comedy, part stylish, neon-soaked horror fever dream in which two childhood friends (Bond and Kadeem Hardison) reun...
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1:49:58Episode 3
The Exorcist III
Episode 3
Directed by William Peter Blatty • 1990 • United States
Starring George C. Scott, Ed Flanders, Brad DourifFor more than fifteen years, Police Lieutenant Kinderman (George C. Scott) has been haunted by the death of his friend Father Damien Karras. Now, on the fifteenth anniversary of the exorcis...
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1:24:31Episode 4
Frankenhooker
Episode 4
Directed by Frank Henenlotter • 1990 • United States
Starring James Lorinz, Patty Mullen, Joanne RitchieFrom the deranged depths of sleazemeister Frank Henenlotter’s imagination comes this wildly subversive camp-horror take on the classic Mary Shelley tale. After he loses his fiancée in a deadl...
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1:28:21Episode 5
Body Parts
Episode 5
Directed by Eric Red • 1991 • United States
Starring Jeff Fahey, Lindsay Duncan, Kim DelaneyInspired by a novel by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac (whose work had previously been adapted for the screen in the form of the suspense classics VERTIGO and DIABOLIQUE), this satisfyingly grisly sli...
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1:40:18Episode 6
The Rapture
Episode 6
Directed by Michael Tolkin • 1991 • United States
Starring Mimi Rogers, Patrick Bauchau, David DuchovnyOne of the most intense and provocative films ever made about the ecstasy and agony of religious faith, the debut feature from writer turned filmmaker Michael Tolkin (THE PLAYER) features an a...
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2:07:30Episode 7
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Episode 7
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola • 1992 • United States
Starring Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Keanu ReevesFrancis Ford Coppola returns to the original source of the Dracula myth, and from Bram Stoker’s immortal gothic romance he orchestrates a dazzling, feverishly wrought visual opera. In an asto...
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1:27:30Episode 8
Dust Devil
Episode 8
Directed by Richard Stanley • 1992 • United Kingdom
Starring Robert John Burke, Chelsea Field, Marianne SägebrechtA uniquely hallucinatory fusion of visceral terror and dreamlike mysticism, this African-set horror reverie—shot on location in Namibia—follows the crisscrossing fates of three soul...
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1:27:11Episode 9
Body Snatchers
Episode 9
Directed by Abel Ferrara • 1993 • United States
Starring Terry Kinney, Meg Tilly, Gabrielle AnwarAbel Ferrara brings his subversive vision to the sci-fi/horror genre with this potent adaptation of the novel by Jack Finney (previously filmed twice as INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS). “They get yo...
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1:33:53Episode 10
When a Stranger Calls Back
Episode 10
Directed by Fred Walton • 1993 • United States
Starring Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Jill SchoelenMore than a decade after WHEN A STRANGER CALLS terrified audiences with its tale of a babysitter stalked by an uncomfortably close caller, writer-director Fred Walton revisited the story in this eq...
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1:35:24Episode 11
In the Mouth of Madness
Episode 11
Directed by John Carpenter • 1994 • United States
Starring Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen ProchnowImagine a novel so overwhelmingly hypnotic, so tremendously horrifying that it paralyzes its audience with fear and turns its most sensible readers insane. When Sutter Cane, the author of this dis...
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1:22:27Episode 12
The Addiction
Episode 12
Directed by Abel Ferrara • 1995 • United States
Starring Lili Taylor, Christopher Walken, Annabella SciorraOn the streets of Greenwich Village, an NYU philosophy student (Lili Taylor) finds herself the victim of a vampiric encounter, inaugurating an insatiable craving for blood that drives her ...
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1:32:20Episode 13
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
Episode 13
Directed by Ernest Dickerson • 1995 • United States
Starring Billy Zane, William Sadler, Jada Pinkett SmithDirected by acclaimed cinematographer turned filmmaker Ernest R. Dickerson (Spike Lee’s regular DP from his debut short through MALCOLM X), the first theatrical feature derived from HBO’s ...
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1:35:58Episode 14
Event Horizon
Episode 14
Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson • 1997 • United Kingdom, United States
Starring Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen QuinlanSomething like SOLARIS reimagined as a grand horror epic, this extravagantly designed interstellar nightmare emerged from an infamously troubled production to take its ...
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Ravenous
Episode 15
Directed by Antonia Bird • 1999 • United States, United Kingdom
Starring Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, David ArquetteOn the eve of the California gold rush, a disgraced soldier (Guy Pearce) is dispatched to a remote outpost in the Sierra Nevada, where he finds himself surrounded by cast-off men w...