Welcome witches and weirdos to the year 1996. So this is kinda the year that broke horror for me a little bit. Sure, there are films I enjoy (a lot actually) but it was the beginning of what I like to call "The Whatever Years". I mean, why do all the posters look like a boy band record cover. Sleek young actors all lined up in sultry poses. I miss when movie posters had crazy art on them. I miss when movies had real looking people in them. Where's the big hairy guy with crooked teeth or the girl with the bad hairdo and lazy eye? Anyways, I can hear you saying "Time for bed Grandma Violet." Yeah yeah, back in my day!!!! Okay, so anyways as I so briefly said, there is still a lot to like during these times of fast food horror. I love the Craft. It was the 90s goth anthem for creepy girls. Totally resonates with me. Then there's Wes Craven breaking shit wide open. Although I blame Scream for beginning a really terrible trend of vapid self-aware teen-scares I really enjoy the first one. That psycho beginning threw me for a loop. And Dusk Till Dawn is like two movies in one. A Tarantino creepy thriller bank heist film and Rodriguez vampire gore-fest. The cast in this one is amazing. Lots of legends chewing up the scenery.
1996
1. The Craft (Directed by Andrew Fleming)
IMDB plot: A newcomer to a Catholic prep high school falls in with a trio of outcast teenage girls who practice witchcraft, and they all soon conjure up various spells and curses against those who anger them.
2. Scream (Directed by Wes Craven)
IMDB plot: A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a new killer, who targets the girl and her friends by using horror films as part of a deadly game.
3. From Dusk Till Dawn (Directed by Robert Rodriguez)
IMDB plot: Two criminals and their hostages unknowingly seek temporary refuge in a truck stop populated by vampires, with chaotic results.
That's it creeps. See you tomorrow for 1997. xoxo
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