The 30 Best Horror Films Of The 1990s

Halloween has arrived once again at the Playlist, and aside from assembling our trick-and-treating costumes, it means an appropriately spooky feature. And this year, we’ve delivered more than one —we picked out the scariest movie moments of all time yesterday. Today, we’ve gone for something a little different.

This time last year, we picked our favorite horrors of the 21st century so far, so it seemed natural to run down our favorites from the 1990s. Horror fans often deride the decade as a low point in the genre, but if you delve a little deeper, there’s all kinds of gems beyond the big iconic films we all remember. What made the list? You can find our top 30 below and can suggest your own faves in the comments. Happy Halloween!

30. “Stir Of Echoes” (1999)
Building from some familiar elements — creepy house, missing girl, gifted child — and having had the misfortune of being a film about a little boy that sees ghosts arriving in theaters just a few weeks after “The...