"(1999), ""Stigmata"" (1999), and ""Existenz"" (1999). Monster horror was quite popular in the 1990s. ""Tremors"" (1990) is the first installment of the ""Tremors"" franchise. ""Lake Placid"" (1999) is another monster horror film, written by David E. Kelley and directed by Steve Miner. Another successful horror film is ""Audition"", a 1999 Japanese film based on the novel of the same name, directed by Takashi Miike. Around this period, Japanese horror started becoming popular in English speaking countries. The film ""The Last Broadcast"" (1998) served as inspiration for the highly successful ""The Blair Witch Project"" (1999), which popularized the found footage horror"
"it matters because it was all a dream. Sleepy Hollow High Sleepy Hollow High is a 2000 American horror film, specifically a slasher film, directed by Chris Arth and Kevin Summerfield. Five delinquent classmates must perform community service at Sleepy Hollow Park Grounds, a place notorious for vandalism and for many unsolved disappearances. As the afternoon unfolds, the students begin to realize that someone is taking the Legend of Sleepy Hollow too far, and that everyone is a suspect—from the teachers and counselors of Sleepy Hollow High to their classmates and each other. It is even possible that the legend"
"Class of 1999 Class of 1999 is a 1990 American science fiction action thriller horror film directed by Mark L. Lester. It is the director's follow-up to his controversial 1982 film ""Class of 1984"". Beginning narration states that in the early to late 1990s, violence in American high schools spiraled out of control, with areas in most major cities being taken over by youth gangs, resulting in some schools shutting down. In 1999, special areas known as ""free fire zones"" have discouraged police from entering out of fear. Seattle's John F. Kennedy High School is in the middle of a"
"Class of 1999 Class of 1999 is a 1990 American science fiction action thriller horror film directed by Mark L. Lester. It is the director's follow-up to his controversial 1982 film ""Class of 1984"". Beginning narration states that in the early to late 1990s, violence in American high schools spiraled out of control, with areas in most major cities being taken over by youth gangs, resulting in some schools shutting down. In 1999, special areas known as ""free fire zones"" have discouraged police from entering out of fear. Seattle's John F. Kennedy High School is in the middle of a"
"Sleepy Hollow High Sleepy Hollow High is a 2000 American horror film, specifically a slasher film, directed by Chris Arth and Kevin Summerfield. Five delinquent classmates must perform community service at Sleepy Hollow Park Grounds, a place notorious for vandalism and for many unsolved disappearances. As the afternoon unfolds, the students begin to realize that someone is taking the Legend of Sleepy Hollow too far, and that everyone is a suspect—from the teachers and counselors of Sleepy Hollow High to their classmates and each other. It is even possible that the legend itself is true. In the end none of"
"November 1999, tourists and fans of ""The Blair Witch Project"" descend on the small town of Burkittsville, Maryland, where the film is set. Local resident Jeff, a former psychiatric patient and obsessed fan, orchestrates a group tour of locations featured in the film. Among the group are graduate students Stephen and his pregnant girlfriend, Tristen, who are researching mythology and mass hysteria; Erica, the Wiccan daughter of an Episcopal minister; and Kim, a goth psychic. They camp for the night in the ruins of Rustin Parr's house, where Jeff has placed surveillance cameras, hoping to capture any supernatural occurrences. Jeff"
"first film to go viral despite having been produced before many of the technologies that facilitate such phenomena existed. The backstory for the film is a legend fabricated by Sánchez and Myrick which is detailed in the ""Curse of the Blair Witch"", a mockumentary broadcast on the SciFi Channel in 1999 prior to the release of ""The Blair Witch Project"". Sánchez and Myrick also maintain a website which adds further details to the legend. The legend describes the killings and disappearances of some of the residents of Blair, Maryland (a fictitious town on the site of Burkittsville, Maryland) from the"
"witchcraft. The mockumentary presents the legend as real, complete with manufactured newspaper articles, newsreels, television news reports, and staged interviews, all in an attempt to deceive viewers. Heather Donahue, Michael Williams and Joshua Leonard, student filmmakers, set out to shoot a documentary about the Blair Witch. In the Black Hills forest near Burkittsville, Maryland, many children have vanished in the 1940s and people still avoid going too deep into the woods. The party sets out to look for facts that prove the legend, equipped only with two cameras and a little hiking gear. First, they find little piles of stone"
"Urban Legends: Bloody Mary Urban Legends: Bloody Mary is a 2005 American supernatural slasher horror film directed by Mary Lambert and starring Kate Mara, Robert Vito, Tina Lifford and Ed Marinaro. Released direct-to-video on July 19, 2005, it is the third and final installment in the ""Urban Legend"" film series, but it moves further away from the original film and abandons the slasher element of the preceding films in favor of a supernatural element. In 1969, three high school footballers tried to drug and kidnap their prom night dates. Their plan works with two of the girls but the third,"
"is now theirs in ""joint custody"". ""Mentor"" was first presented at the Tribeca Film Festival in the spring of 2006. It also was accepted at the Maryland Film Festival on May 13, 2006. As of January 2007, the film has not been generally released. The movie makes liberal use of flashback techniques, introducing the characters in 1997 at the end of their friendship, moving to the present day, then alternating between to sequential timelines, one in 1997 the other a decade later. The film was shot entirely in Maryland. Johns Hopkins University doubled for both colleges, St. Michaels, Maryland was"
"two sequels"""" and ""Blair Witch""released in October 2000 and September 2016, respectively. The ""Blair Witch"" franchise has expanded to include novels, dossiers, comic books and additional merchandise. In October 1994, film students Heather, Mike and Josh set out to produce a documentary about the fabled Blair Witch. They travel to Burkittsville, Maryland, and interview residents about the legend. Locals tell them of Rustin Parr, a hermit who lived in the woods and kidnapped eight children in the 1940s. After spending the night at a motel, the students explore the woods in north Burkittsville to research the legend. Along the way"
"or might not have happened involving a lot of empty people whose main claim to fame is that they're dead."" Wonderland (2003 film) Wonderland is a 2003 American crime drama film, co-written and directed by James Cox and based on the real-life Wonderland Murders that occurred in 1981. The film stars Val Kilmer, Kate Bosworth, Dylan McDermott, Carrie Fisher, Lisa Kudrow, Josh Lucas, Christina Applegate, Tim Blake Nelson, and Janeane Garofalo. Kilmer plays the role of John Holmes, a famous pornographic film star and suspected accomplice in four grisly murders committed in an apartment on Wonderland Avenue, in the Laurel"
"stepfather's murder, Christopher Wayne Pritchard told the police that he and his friends had mapped the steam tunnels of North Carolina State University for the purposes of incorporating them into their ""Dungeons & Dragons"" role-playing. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67279730/james-dallas-egbert/photo James Dallas Egbert III James Dallas Egbert III (October 29, 1962 – August 16, 1980) was a student at Michigan State University who disappeared from his dormitory room on August 15, 1979. The disappearance was widely reported in the press, and his participation in the fantasy role-playing game ""Dungeons & Dragons"" was seized upon by press and investigators alike as being potentially related to"
"Home Video. The DVD was reissued in Superbit on February 12, 2002 by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment. Arlington Road Arlington Road is a 1999 American drama mystery thriller film which tells the story of a widowed George Washington University professor who suspects his new neighbors are involved in terrorism and becomes obsessed with foiling their terrorist plot. The film was heavily inspired by the paranoid culture of the 1990s concerning the right-wing militia movement, Ruby Ridge, the Waco siege and Oklahoma City Bombing. The film stars Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack, and Hope Davis and is directed by Mark"
"became lost, and in some cases died of hypothermia or other causes. The legends had risen due to newspaper reports concerning the disappearance of a Michigan State University student named James Dallas Egbert III. Egbert had played ""Dungeons & Dragons"" and did in fact go into the steam tunnels of his school, but with the intent of committing suicide. When his attempt on his life failed, he hid at various friends' houses for several weeks. During this time the private investigator hired by Egbert's parents to find him speculated in the press that perhaps Egbert had gone into the steam"
"Pray for Morning Pray for Morning is a 2006 horror/thriller movie directed and written by Cartney Wearn. In 1984, a group of five high schoolers had broken into an abandoned hotel, as was tradition after graduation. They were all gruesomely murdered. At the insistence of one set of parents, the police brought in a psychic, as they could find no leads. The psychic said that the murderer was still in the hotel. The police searched but found no one. The psychic died in her sleep that night. The search was never continued, the murderer never found. 20 years later, six"
"Paradise Lost 2: Revelations Paradise Lost 2: Revelations is a 2000 American documentary film directed and produced by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, and the sequel to their 1996 film """", about the trials of the West Memphis Three, three teenage boys accused of the May 1993 murders and sexual mutilation of three prepubescent boys as a part of an alleged satanic ritual in West Memphis, Arkansas. ""Revelations"" takes place five years after the events depicted in the first film, as Damien Echols, one of the West Memphis Three, who were all recognized guilty of the murders in 1994, appeals"
"Screams of a Winter Night Screams of a Winter Night is a 1979 American anthology horror film directed by James L. Wilson and starring Matt Borel, Gil Glasgow, and Mary Agen Cox. Its plot focuses on a group of college students staying in a cabin who tell various scary stories to one another. A group of college students are spending a weekend away at a remote cabin. To pass the time, they decide to tell scary stories to one another. The first story focuses on a couple being terrorized by a Bigfoot-like creature while in the woods. The second story"
"2003, ""Entertainment Weekly"" ranked the film #17 on their list of ""The Top 50 Cult Films"", third on their list of the 50 Best High School Movies, 10th on their ""Funniest Movies of the Past 25 Years"" list, and ranked it #6 on their ""The Cult 25: The Essential Left-Field Movie Hits Since '83"" list. In October 2004, three of Linklater's former classmates from Huntsville High School, whose surnames are Wooderson, Slater, and Floyd, filed a defamation lawsuit against Linklater, claiming to be the basis for the similarly named characters on the film. The lawsuit was filed in New Mexico"
"Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills is a 1996 American documentary film directed, produced and edited by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky about the trials of the West Memphis Three, three teenage boys accused of the May 1993 murders and sexual mutilation of three prepubescent boys as a part of an alleged satanic ritual in West Memphis, Arkansas. The film uses the music of Metallica instead of an original soundtrack, marking the first time that the band authorized their music to be used in a film. It was"
"later earned status as a cult film. In a flashback, horror author Franklin ""Frankie"" Scarlatti tells a story on the way to his hometown, Willowpoint Falls. On Halloween 1962, Frankie, then 9 years old, is tricked by school jokesters Donald and Louie, leaving Frankie locked in the school's cloakroom after the last school bell has rung. Trapped well after dark, he witnesses the ghostly scene of a brutal attack of a red-haired little girl. Suddenly, he is attacked and strangled by a dark figure. Losing consciousness, he again sees the girl, and she mysteriously asks for his help to find"
"the United States and is consequently little-known among horror film fans, but has attained a cult following over the years. It was released in VHS format in the 1990s, and released on DVD by Code Red Releasing in April 2012. Jenny, Marty, and Chrissy are spending their New Year's Eve on a snowmobiling trip in the Rocky Mountains. After talking with a storekeeper at a ski shop, the three decide to go riding before dark, but end up caught in a blizzard. Looming before them is a seemingly abandoned hotel at the top of the snow trail, isolated from tourists"
"""ReelTalk.com"" called the film, ""a flat, one-note ripoff"" and criticizing its lack of scares. Urban Legends: Bloody Mary Urban Legends: Bloody Mary is a 2005 American supernatural slasher horror film directed by Mary Lambert and starring Kate Mara, Robert Vito, Tina Lifford and Ed Marinaro. Released direct-to-video on July 19, 2005, it is the third and final installment in the ""Urban Legend"" film series, but it moves further away from the original film and abandons the slasher element of the preceding films in favor of a supernatural element. In 1969, three high school footballers tried to drug and kidnap their"
"Girl Missing Girl Missing is a 1933 American pre-Code mystery film starring Glenda Farrell, Ben Lyon and Mary Brian. It was directed by Robert Florey and released by Warner Bros. on March 4, 1933. Two women stranded in Palm Beach become involved in the case of a new bride who goes missing on her wedding night. Kay Curtis (Glenda Farrell) and June Dale (Mary Brian) are two showgirls living in the Palm Beach hotel. When June refuses one of her wealthy male friend's sexual advances, he chooses to let June and Kay pay for their own hotel bills. They decide"
"true life story of Rameck Hunt, Sampson Davis, and George Jenkins, who made a pact in their inner-city high-school in Newark, New Jersey, to find a way to go to college and then medical school. The documentary follows the three doctors as they navigate the minefields of their community work, struggling with exhausting shifts at the hospital, and wrestle with their own painful childhood memories while they spread the word to inspire other inner-city children to stay out of gangs and use education to escape from their urban streets. The narrator of the film, 12-year-old Malique Bazemore, is a Newark"
"cult hit of the DV era.” In 2018 the ""B-Movie Mania Show"" rediscovered a DVD version of the film at a ""Dollar Tree"" store for 99 cents and build an entire show around the film praising it as a hidden B-movie gem from the early digital era of American film. Co-director Tom Seymour affectionately referred to this film and his two other features as the ""Backyard Trilogy"" consisting of three films, Everything Moves Alone, Land of College Prophets and London Betty. The three feature length films all involve backyard thieves or in this case superheroes that all dwell in suburban"
"Marshall alumnus. In October 2008, a federal judge dismissed the lawsuit in a summary judgment in favor of Warner Bros. Marshall University: Ashes to Glory Marshall University: Ashes to Glory is a 2000 documentary film about the November 14, 1970 Marshall University plane crash that killed 75 people (including 37 members of the Thundering Herd football team, most of its coaching staff, and a number of school officials and Huntingtonians), and the efforts of new head coach Jack Lengyel and the coaching staff (which included members of the previous staff), to rebuild the team and help heal the city of"
""""" would take a different path. ""Paradise Lost"" chronicles the 1993 murders of three 8-year-old boys, Stephen Branch, Christopher Byers, and Michael Moore in rural Arkansas, and argues that the fear and panic of satanism, along with questionable police work, led to the arrests and convictions of three teenagers, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Miskelley for the murders, otherwise known as the West Memphis Three. Since its 1996 premier on HBO, the film has helped fuel interest and support for the convicted men. Some believe the three were convicted more for their choices in fashion and music than for"
"Entertainment. The most recent home video release for the film was in 1999, released on both VHS as well as a double billing DVD paired with Lommel's ""The Boogeyman"" (1980). In November 1683 in Devonsville, Massachusetts, three womenJessica Morley, Mary Pratt, and Rebecca Carsonare kidnapped by the townsfolk based on accusations of witchcraft. Jessica is disemboweled by hogs, and Mary is killed with a breaking wheel. Rebecca, the last to die, is burned at the stake. After Rebecca's execution, her apparition appears in the sky and a thunderstorm begins. 300 years later, Dr. Warley investigates the witches' purported curse on"
"Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain Samhain, or Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain, is a 2003 Canadian horror film, starring Bobbie Phillips, Richard Grieco, and pornographic actor legends Ginger Lynn Allen, Chasey Lain, Taylor Hayes, and Jenna Jameson. The plot concerns a group of American students camping in Ireland, and studying the legends of the Druids, who are attacked by deformed mutant cannibals from the backwoods. The film was originally produced in 2002–2003, in a longer version with more blood humor and nudity, titled simply ""Samhain"", but languished until 2005–2006, when it was shortened, retitled ""Evil Breed: The Legend"
"Dark Heritage Dark Heritage (UK: ""Dark Heritage: The Final Descendant"") is a 1989 American horror film produced and directed by David McCormick. It is an unofficial adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft's short story ""The Lurking Fear"" and the first of three film adaptations of H.P Lovecraft's short story. Following a violent storm, a small campsite in the Southern states is found littered with mutilated bodies. Journalist Clint Harrison investigates and learns of a family called the Dansens who kept a terrible secret. Resolving to get to the bottom of things, Harrison and his buddies decide to spend the night in"
"Houck. The film's producer, Mark Lovell, was a real estate agent with no background in filmmaking. It was distributed by Dimension Pictures. Screams of a Winter Night Screams of a Winter Night is a 1979 American anthology horror film directed by James L. Wilson and starring Matt Borel, Gil Glasgow, and Mary Agen Cox. Its plot focuses on a group of college students staying in a cabin who tell various scary stories to one another. A group of college students are spending a weekend away at a remote cabin. To pass the time, they decide to tell scary stories to"
"Disappearance (2002 film) Disappearance is a 2002 television film that first aired on TBS and later was released on DVD. While driving through New Mexico, the Henley family – Jim, his wife Patty, their daughter Kate, son Matt, along with Matt's friend Ethan – discover the whereabouts of Weaver, a ghost town, and decide to take a detour to it to take pictures. Stopping at a diner in the neighboring town of Two Wells, the family asks about Weaver but the patrons, all seeming dazed, claim not to have heard of the town, although a gas station attendant warns Jim"