90s Horror Blog

Blog Banner resized logo

Category: Movie

the blair rabbit project scene

Direct-to-Video / Movie

The Blair Rabbit Project (1999 / 2021) Review

Pickings for Easter-themed horror from the ’90s is pretty slim. During our research for the blog, we came across The Blair Rabbit Project (2021) on Amazon Prime that was truly intriguing. A film originally recorded during the same year of the film it parodies back in 1999, but restored for 2021, available to watch over 20 years later! The Blair Witch Project (1999) was a classic, but not without it’s flaws that deserve, playfully, to be poked at. Blair Rabbit‘s premise is pretty much the same as that of Blair Witch. Looking for the Blare Rabbit, a legendary mutant-rabbit monster,...

screamwalkers poster cropped

Direct-to-Video / Movie

Screamwalkers review

Take three parts Scream teen horror and one part Sleepwalkers, process the mixture through a DTV filming and editing process. Then pour in a gallon of cheese, add equal doses of hilarious and creative uses of low-budget SPX, and a cup of cringe. Give it a weird ending, and voilà! You end up with Screamwalkers! The title is a portmanteau of Scream and Sleepwalkers – Scream being the classic teen slasher franchise that is still producing today, and Sleepwalkers referring to the movie of the same name released in 1992 and written by Stephen King. All this sounded absolutely amazing...

shrieker_monster_promotional_art

Direct-to-Video / Movie

Shrieker (1998): It’s like a Goosebumps episode for adults 

Why Shrieker Takes You Back: A Nostalgic Dive into a B-Movie Gem If you’re considering watching Shrieker and want a spoiler-free glimpse or just another fan’s perspective, you’re in the right place. This review highlights how Shrieker, despite its obvious budget constraints, makes up for it with a charm reminiscent of a classic ’90s Goosebumps TV episode—perhaps unintentionally. A product of the golden age of the video store, Shrieker evokes the days when horror fans scoured shelves for the coolest VHS covers. If you were browsing in the ‘90s, you’d find plenty of movies like this one—low-budget direct-to-video (DTV) gems...

scary stories documentary artwork

Documentary

Review: ‘Scary Stories’ A nostalgic treat full of empty calories

Being a kid in the 1990s was to live within the heyday of horror YA fiction. There was an explosion of horror book series aimed at children and teens, including; Goosebumps, Spooksville, Fear Street, Point Horror, Shivers, Creepers, Spine Chillers Mysteries, Bone Chillers… I could go on!

Looking to appeal to this same target audience was anthologies of short stories, yet little to none of these captured the public imagination like the trio of Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark (1981-1991). The Scary Stories documentary aims to delve deeper into these books…

spawn movie review

Movie

Spawn (1997): More style than substance

I remember picking up Spawn (1997) on VHS at an outdoor car boot sale when I was a kid. I can’t quite recall if that was my first introduction to the Spawn franchise or if it was when my grandmother bought me a Spawn action figure from the pound shop (that’s the dollar store for those across the pond). The figurine came with a mini comic, which I became a bit obsessed with, reading it over and over again. It was probably only 10 or 12 pages long, but the part that really stuck with me was a panel of Clown cooking a rat in an alley, singing “Hey diddle diddle, a rat on the griddle.” Then he assured us readers it wasn’t a rat, just a large field mouse.

It was just another thing, like Warhammer, I wanted to dive into as a kid but didn’t know how—or have the money—to do so. I have fond memories of watching Spawn, but I was curious how it would hold up now that I’m revisiting it as an adult.