After an era of slashers, the 1990s saw a shift in horror cinema, as filmmakers moved beyond traditional scares to explore the psychological depths of fear. More than ever before, horror transcended ...

Horror often stretches the limits of filmmaking more than any other genre. Horror films explore people's fears and can commonly feature metaphorical stand-ins for political and social circumstances in ...

The Exorcist III, released in 1990, was named the movie with the greatest jump scare. The infamously scary scene in question ...

If the '80s horror films were about the rise of the slashers, then the '90s were about the rise of the horror comedies. A handful of iconic '80s slashers had sequels in the 1990s, but the films that ...

Despite the doldrums that horror wallowed in during the 1990s, a victim of its own success, mind you, that doesn’t mean there weren’t major, notable movies being released that entire time. With time, ...

These horror movies may not have been massive successes right out of the gate, but over the years they've developed devoted ...

Anja Djuricic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1992. Her first interest in film started very early, as she learned to speak English by watching Disney animated movies (and many, many reruns). Anja ...

Mason is a Senior Author responsible for the creation of Movie List Articles and Movie Feature Articles. Author of nearly 50 published articles, Mason's creative tenure with Collider only continues to ...

The Brain Gremlin looking analytical on Gremlins 2: The New Batch - Warner Bros. It's hard to say what happened in 1990 that made horror suddenly so exciting. The slasher genre wasn't entirely dead ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If the '80s horror films were about the rise of the slashers, then the '90s were about the rise of the horror comedies. A handful ...

While it's not always the case, a mark of a good horror movie is an expertly timed, non-gratuitous jump scare. In October 2025, Paste magazine shared a list of the 50 films with the "best jump scares ...