Welcome to the end of the nineties. I'm glad you survived. 1999 started some new trends that would dominate the horror genre for the next decade or more. The 'found footage" genre began or was at least popularized by The Blair Witch Project. I'm not gonna lie, it spooked the hell out of me. Especially going into it without any knowledge of what it was except for the rumor that it was a true story. Then we have the enigma that is M. Night Shyamalan. With him, there is always a big twist ending and I never saw this one coming. Super spooky. Finally we have the beginnings of what has been dubbed "torture porn". Films that portrayed such gruesome gore and violence that non-horror fans (and some horror fans) find super offensive or repulsive. Japanese director Takashi Miike was their king spawning the likes of splatter students such as Hostels Eli Roth and Martyrs Pascal Laugier.
1999
1. The Blair Witch Project (Directed by Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez)
IMDB plot: Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.
2. The Sixth Sense (Directed by M. Night Shyamalan)
IMDB plot: A boy who communicates with spirits seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist.
3. Audition (Directed by Takashi Miike)
IMDB plot: A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all.
Bonus film!!! One of my favorite Halloween legends...
"Ichabod may be quaint,
May be odd, and maybe he ain't.
Anyway, there's no complaint
From Ichabod,
Ichabod Crane."
Sleepy Hollow (Directed by Tim Burton)
IMDB plot: Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitations of three people, with the culprit being the legendary apparition, The Headless Horseman.
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