Table of Contents Acknowledgments xii Preface 1 PART I: IT DEPENDS ONWHAT THEMEANING OF THEWORD "IS" IS: AN INTRODUCTION 3 PART II: THE HORROR GENOME PROJECT: A DECADE OF ALIENS, CONSPIRACIES, INTERLOPERS, SERIAL KILLERS, SCIENCE RUN AMOK AND OTHER GRIM TRENDS 16 PART III: THE FILMS (BY YEAR OF RELEASE) 50 1990 The Ambulance 51 Arachnophobia 52 Baby Blood 55 Basket Case 2 56 Blood Games 58 Blood Salvage 60 Blue Steel 61 Brain Dead 64 Bride of Re-Animator 65 A Cat in the Brain 67 Child''s Play 2: Chucky''s Back 69 Dead Alive 71 Def by Temptation 73 Demonia 75 The Exorcist III 76 Fear 79 The First Power 81 Flatliners 82 Frankenstein Unbound 86 Ghost 88 Graveyard Shift 90 Gremlins 2: The New Batch 91 Grim Prairie Tales 94 The Guardian 96 Hardware 99 The Haunting of Morella 101 Jacob''s Ladder 102 Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3 106 Luther the Geek 108 Maniac Cop 2 109 Misery 111 Mr. Frost 113 Night of the Living Dead 115 Nightbreed 117 Pacific Heights 119 Predator 2 122 Prom Night 3: The Last Kiss 124 Shakma 125 Sorority House Massacre 2 127 Soultaker 128 Syngenor 130 Tales from the Darkside: The Movie 131 Tremors 134 Troll 2 136 1991 Alligator 2: The Mutation 38 Begotten 140 Blood Massacre 142 Body Parts 143 Campfire Tales 145 Cape Fear 147 Children of the Night 150 Child''s Play 3: Look Who''s Stalking 151 Critters 3 153 Dead Again 154 Eve of Destruction 155 Freddy''s Dead: The Final Nightmare 158 Haunting Fear 161 Hiruko the Goblin 162 The Masque of the Red Death 163 976-Evil 2: The Astral Factor 165 The People Under the Stairs 166 Popcorn 170 Puppet Master 2 (His Unholy Creations) 172 Puppet Master 3: Toulon''s Revenge 173 The Reflecting Skin 175 Servants of Twilight 177 La Setta (a.k.a. The Devil''s Daughter, Demons 4) 178 The Silence of the Lambs 180 Sleeping with the Enemy 184 Subspecies 187 Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat 188 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 189 Two Evil Eyes 192 The Unborn 193 The Vanishing. 194 Warlock 196 Xtro 2: The Second Encounter 198 1992 Alien3 200 Amityville 1992: It''s About Time 205 Army of Darkness 207 Basic Instinct 210 Basket Case 3: Progeny 212 The Boneyard 213 Bram Stoker''s Dracula 214 Buffy the Vampire Slayer 219 Candyman 221 Dr. Giggles 224 Dolly Dearest 227 Dust Devil 228 The Gate II (The Trespassers) 230 Ghoulies 3: Ghoulies Go to College 230 The Hand That Rocks the Cradle 231 Hellraiser 3: Hell on Earth 233 Highway to Hell 235 Innocent Blood 238 Jennifer 8 239 The Lawnmower Man 241 Needful Things 243 Netherworld 245 Pet Semetary 2 246 Poison Ivy 248 Prom Night IV: Deliver Us from Evil 249 Raising Cain 250 The Resurrected 255 The Runestone 256 Single White Female 258 Sleepwalkers 260 Split Second 262 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 264 Waxwork II: Lost in Time 267 1993 Amityville: A New Generation 269 Carnosaur 270 Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice 271 The Crush 273 The Dark Half. 274 Demon Possessed.
276 Fire in the Sky 278 Ghost in the Machine 280 Ghoulies IV 282 The Good Son 283 Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday 285 Jurassic Park 288 Kalifornia 291 Leprechaun 292 Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence 294 Man''s Best Friend 295 Night Terrors 297 Puppet Master 4: The Demon 298 Return of the Living Dead III 299 Skeeter 301 Subspecies 2: Bloodstone 303 The Temp 304 To Sleep with a Vampire 306 The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter 307 The Vanishing 308 Warlock: The Armageddon. 311 Zombie Bloodbath 313 1994 Blink 315 Body Snatchers 316 Brainscan 319 Cronos 321 Dario Argento''s Trauma 322 Interview with the Vampire 323 Leprechaun 2 327 Lurking Fear 328 Mary Shelley''s Frankenstein 329 Mother''s Boys 334 Natural Born Killers 335 Night of the Demons 2 338 Nightwatch (Nattevagten) 339 Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead 341 Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings 342 Puppet Master 5 (The Final Chapter) 343 The Puppet Masters 345 The River Wild 346 Subspecies 3: Bloodlust 348 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation 349 The Unborn 2 352 Wes Craven''s New Nightmare 353 Wolf 357 1995 The Addiction 361 Candyman 2: Farewell to the Flesh 364 Carnosaur 2 366 Castle Freak 368 Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest 369 Copycat 370 Embrace of the Vampire 372 The Fear 374 The Girl with the Hungry Eyes 375 Grim 376 Halloween VI: The Curse of Michael Myers 377 Hideaway 380 The Ice Cream Man 382 In the Mouth of Madness 383 Jack-O 387 Leprechaun 3 388 Lord of Illusions 390 The Mangler 392 Outbreak 394 The Prophecy 397 Relative Fear 399 Roadflower 400 Rumpelstiltskin . 402 Se7en 403 Sleepstalker: The Sandman''s Last Rites 406 Sorceress 407 Species 408 Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight 410 Tales from the Hood 412 A Vampire in Brooklyn 415 Village of the Damned 417 Virtuosity 422 Wes Craven Presents Mind Ripper 424 Witchboard 3: The Possession 426 Xtro 3: Watch the Skies 427 1996 The Arrival 429 Bad Moon 430 Cemetery Man 431 Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering 433 The Craft 434 The Dentist 436 Diabolique 438 The Fan 440 Fear 442 The Frighteners 444 From Dusk Till Dawn 448 The Ghost and the Darkness 452 Haunted 454 Hellraiser IV: Bloodlines 455 The Island of Dr. Moreau. 458 Mary Reilly 461 Necronomicon: Book of the Dead 463 Night of the Demons 3 465 Pinocchio''s Revenge 466 The Sandman 468 Scream 469 Screamers 473 Thinner 475 Tremors: Aftershocks 2 476 1997 Alien Resurrection 478 Amityville Dollhouse 482 An American Werewolf in Paris 483 Anaconda 485 Breakdown 487 Campfire Tales 490 The Devil''s Advocate 491 Event Horizon 494 I Know What You Did Last Summer 498 Jack Frost 501 Kiss the Girls 502 Leprechaun 4: In Space. 504 Lost Highway 505 The Lost World: Jurassic Park 2 507 Mimic 509 Night Flier 512 Poison Ivy: The New Seduction 514 The Relic 515 Scream 2 516 Snow White: A Tale of Terror 519 Switchback 520 Tales from the Crypt: Bordello of Blood 522 Uncle Sam 523 The Ugly 525 The Vampire Journals 526 Wes Craven Presents Wishmaster 527 1998 Apt Pupil 529 Blade 532 Bride of Chucky 534 Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror 536 Curse of the Puppet Master 537 Death Mask 538 Deep Rising 539 Devil in the Flesh 542 Die Hard Dracula. 543 Disturbing Behavior 544 The Faculty 547 Fallen 549 Godzilla 551 Halloween H20 556 I Still Know What You Did Last Summer 559 John Carpenter''s Vampires. 561 The Last Broadcast 564 Nightwatch 566 Phantasm IV: Oblivion 568 Phan.