The 1990s weren't exactly kind to the genre as a whole, and many felt as though horror had run its course and would gradually work its way from the minds of moviegoers.
As it turns out, horror was far from dead. It was the slasher film that had flat-lined, and that all changed in 1996, when Wes Craven reinvented himself yet again and injected new life into the slasher branch with the first Scream release. The picture was brutally clever, and it won big at the box office. Naturally a number of sequels and similar efforts would follow suit, all looking to cash in, and while most of those copycat pics were nauseating, there were a handful that worked to keep us thrilled and chilled.
Now, we head back to the 1990s – even before the release of Scream – to take a closer look at 10 slasher pics worthy of multiple viewings.
