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2000! Holy crow. Man, there is like nothing that came out in 2000. Final Destination is the biggie, but there's no monster there. So...pulp cover!

Sleepy Hollow was Burton's In the Mouth of Madness, the last film by a director who was my favorite for a stretch of time that I really fell in love with. If nothing else, that magnificent cameo by Christopher Lee reminded other filmmakers that he was still alive and got him a run of…

I guess Blade was the big movie that year, but I don't know, despite trying so hard I never felt their takes on vampires were all that interesting. Decent action movies, though. So I'll go with Deep Rising, a pretty fun heist-movie-turns-into-a-monster-flick.

Not as much 1997 going on in 1997, although there are fans of Event Horizon, The Relic, Anaconda, etc. Me, I'll go with Mimic. That's a pretty good movie, and the sequels were cheap but interesting, which you can't say for many horror series.

1996 was actually a pretty good year for horror movies, especially by big time directors. The most iconic horror film that year was Wes Craven's Scream (a franchise still being pimped, of course), but Ghostface isn't really a monster per se. There was also From Dusk to Dawn, written by and co-starring Tarantino. The…

It was hard not to go with Mel Brooks' classic Dracula Dead and Loving It, but I guess I'll opt for John Carpenter's last great film, In the Mouth of Madness. Although it was a pastiche, it really kicked off a chain of good to great Lovecraft films. I really love this film a…

With the '90s we've definitely hit the ongoing era of remakes and sequels. In fact, horror movies were ahead of the curve on that, given how many of them are low budget and direct to video (streaming now, I guess.) Speaking of horror, back to work today! Oh, well, we still have a short…

There were better horror movies made that year (Army of Darkness), but this guy stuck around a surprisingly long time.

This is a flawed but very interesting film, followed by a couple of flawed but interesting sequels. I briefly (for me) wrote up my thoughts on the first couple of films in my very old, pre-site Halloween Flicks compendium, which I am now realizing isn't posted here. I should probably repost that. There's a…

Man, pretty much everything was sequels back in 1991. This, however, was RIGHT in my wheelhouse. They eventually made a sequel to this, too...the first sequel movie HBO had ever made...and completely screwed it up by recasting Ward with Dennis Hopper. (????) Also it was a whole McCarthy thing which BORING. And moving the…