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Best Horror Movies of the 1990s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
89 horror films from the 1990s are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Interview with the Vampire (1994), at 7.5 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 6.9. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Stigmata, 6.2 on IMDb against 28 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Interview with the Vampire '1994 | Horror / Drama / Fantasy | 7.5 | 69% | 62 | 7.4 | Neil Jordan |
| 2 | The Devil's Advocate '1997 | Horror / Drama / Mystery | 7.5 | 66% | 60 | 7.5 | Taylor Hackford |
| 3 | Scream '1996 | Crime / Horror / Mystery | 7.4 | 78% | 66 | 7.4 | Wes Craven |
| 4 | Bram Stoker's Dracula '1992 | Romance / Horror | 7.4 | 69% | 57 | 7.4 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 5 | Ninja Scroll '1993 | Fantasy / Animation / Action / Horror | 7.8 | 90% | - | 7.8 | Yoshiaki Kawajiri |
| 6 | Army of Darkness '1992 | Fantasy / Horror / Comedy | 7.4 | 68% | 59 | 7.3 | Sam Raimi |
| 7 | Sleepy Hollow '1999 | Fantasy / Thriller / Mystery / Horror | 7.3 | 71% | 65 | 7.2 | Tim Burton |
| 8 | Braindead '1992 | Horror / Comedy | 7.4 | 89% | 54 | 7.4 | Peter Jackson |
| 9 | Jacob's Ladder '1990 | Drama / Mystery / Horror | 7.4 | 71% | 62 | 7.4 | Adrian Lyne |
| 10 | Funny Games '1997 | Drama / Horror / Thriller | 7.5 | 73% | 69 | 7.3 | Michael Haneke |
| 11 | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me '1992 | Drama / Mystery / Horror | 7.3 | 67% | 46 | 7.4 | David Lynch |
| 12 | From Dusk Till Dawn '1996 | Action / Horror / Crime | 7.2 | 65% | 48 | 7.1 | Robert Rodriguez |
| 13 | Tremors '1990 | Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi | 7.2 | 88% | 65 | 7.0 | Ron Underwood |
| 14 | Blade '1998 | Horror / Action | 7.1 | 59% | 47 | 6.9 | Stephen Norrington |
| 15 | Cure '1997 | Horror / Mystery / Crime | 7.5 | 94% | 71 | 7.6 | Kiyoshi Kurosawa |
| 16 | Ring '1998 | Horror / Thriller | 7.2 | 98% | - | 7.1 | Hideo Nakata |
| 17 | Thesis '1996 | Horror / Thriller | 7.4 | 86% | - | 7.5 | Alejandro Amenábar |
| 18 | In the Mouth of Madness '1995 | Horror / Mystery | 7.1 | 61% | 53 | 7.2 | John Carpenter |
| 19 | The Frighteners '1996 | Horror / Comedy | 7.1 | 65% | 52 | 7.0 | Peter Jackson |
| 20 | The Day of the Beast '1995 | Horror / Comedy / Action | 7.3 | 77% | - | 7.3 | Álex de la Iglesia |
| 21 | Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island '1998 | Animation / Mystery / Horror | 7.8 | 89% | - | 7.7 | Jim Stenstrum |
| 22 | Stir of Echoes '1999 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 6.9 | 70% | 67 | 6.7 | David Koepp |
| 23 | Ravenous '1999 | Western / Horror / Comedy / Drama | 6.9 | 52% | 46 | 6.8 | Antonia Bird |
| 24 | Cronos '1993 | Drama / Horror / Thriller | 6.7 | 88% | 70 | 6.7 | Guillermo del Toro |
| 25 | Candyman '1992 | Drama / Horror / Thriller | 6.8 | 79% | 61 | 6.7 | Bernard Rose |
| 26 | The Witches '1990 | Fantasy / Horror | 6.8 | 94% | 78 | 7.0 | Nicolas Roeg |
| 27 | Night of the Living Dead '1990 | Horror | 6.8 | 58% | 54 | 6.9 | Tom Savini |
| 28 | Fire in the Sky '1993 | Sci-Fi / Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Horror | 6.5 | 52% | 42 | 6.7 | Rob Lieberman |
| 29 | The Ninth Gate '1999 | Mystery / Thriller / Horror | 6.7 | 44% | 44 | 6.5 | Roman Polanski |
| 30 | Death Becomes Her '1992 | Comedy / Fantasy / Horror | 6.7 | - | 56 | 6.8 | Robert Zemeckis |
| 31 | The People Under the Stairs '1991 | Horror / Comedy | 6.4 | 67% | 57 | 6.6 | Wes Craven |
| 32 | The Good Son '1993 | Drama / Thriller / Horror | 6.4 | 26% | 45 | 6.8 | Joseph Ruben |
| 33 | Society '1990 | Comedy / Horror / Mystery | 6.5 | 69% | 50 | 6.7 | Brian Yuzna |
| 34 | Idle Hands '1999 | Comedy / Horror / Fantasy | 6.3 | 19% | 31 | 6.2 | Rodman Flender |
| 35 | The Faculty '1998 | Horror / Sci-Fi | 6.6 | 57% | 61 | 6.6 | Robert Rodriguez |
| 36 | Flatliners '1990 | Drama / Sci-Fi / Horror | 6.6 | 50% | 55 | 6.5 | Joel Schumacher |
| 37 | Return of the Living Dead III '1993 | Horror / Romance | 5.9 | 58% | 47 | 6.6 | Brian Yuzna |
| 38 | The Exorcist III '1990 | Horror | 6.5 | 60% | 48 | 6.3 | William Peter Blatty |
| 39 | Event Horizon '1997 | Horror / Sci-Fi / Mystery | 6.6 | 37% | 35 | 6.6 | Paul W. S. Anderson |
| 40 | Arachnophobia '1990 | Comedy / Horror | 6.5 | 92% | 67 | 6.5 | Frank Marshall |
| 41 | Wes Craven's New Nightmare '1994 | Horror / Mystery / Fantasy | 6.4 | 76% | 64 | 6.5 | Wes Craven |
| 42 | Gremlins 2: The New Batch '1990 | Comedy / Horror / Fantasy | 6.5 | 71% | 69 | 6.5 | Joe Dante |
| 43 | The Craft '1996 | Horror / Drama / Fantasy | 6.5 | 57% | 55 | 6.8 | Andrew Fleming |
| 44 | The Blair Witch Project '1999 | Horror / Mystery | 6.5 | 86% | 80 | 6.4 | Daniel Myrick |
| 45 | Stigmata '1999 | Horror / Thriller | 6.2 | 22% | 28 | 6.3 | Rupert Wainwright |
| 46 | Wolf '1994 | Horror / Drama / Romance | 6.3 | 62% | - | 6.1 | Mike Nichols |
| 47 | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein '1994 | Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Romance | 6.3 | 42% | 49 | 6.4 | Kenneth Branagh |
| 48 | Tremors 2: Aftershocks '1996 | Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi | 6.0 | 64% | - | 6.3 | S.S. Wilson |
| 49 | Wishmaster '1997 | Horror / Fantasy | 5.9 | 26% | - | 6.1 | Robert Kurtzman |
| 50 | Deep Rising '1998 | Action / Horror / Sci-Fi | 6.1 | 36% | - | 6.2 | Stephen Sommers |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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