Of course, living forever isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be for the murderous pair. It’s a teen coming-of-age comedy with a vampiric twist.īruce Willis, Meryl Streep, and Goldie Hawn starred in this satirical dark comedy that saw two women escalate their rivalry after discovering immortality. Rutger Hauer played the film’s big bad vampire, with Paul Reubens as his right-hand man. īefore the critically acclaimed TV series took the character and world in a darker, more dramatic direction, Buffy began as a lighthearted horror-comedy that leaned into the character’s valley girl persona. The sequel marked the feature debut by Fincher, who would only three years later return with one of the decade’s most brutal crime horror thrillers, Seven. Ripley ( Sigourney Weaver) finds herself battling the deadly xenomorphs once more after crash landing on a high-security prison planet.
Directed by Mick Garris, look for King, Clive Barker, Joe Dante, John Landis, and Tobe Hooper cameos.ĭavid Fincher delivered the franchise’s first polarizing entry with a shocking end for many fan-favorite characters. An incestuous pair of shapeshifting vampires target the virginal Tanya ( Madchen Amick) as their next meal, but she puts up a fight with the help of police and cats. Sleepwalkers marks the first feature film written by Stephen King yet not based on any of his pre-existing works.
It also unleashes a sadistic streak that results in a body count. Thanks to virtual reality experimentation, Jeff Fahey stars as the titular character, a simpleton rendered intelligent and telekinetic. The resulting feature makes for a peculiar time capsule of ’90s VFX. Very little of this Stephen King adaptation resembles its source material, so much so that the author sued to have his name removed. This sequel received a minuscule theatrical roll-out before its home release later in the year. So, he heads next door to summon demons once more, this time with the hope it’ll fix his domestic woes. In the five years since The Gate‘s events, his buddy Glen moved away, and Terry’s home life took a deeper nosedive. Louis Tripp reprised his role as Terry, this time as the movie’s lead. Surprise, the first straight horror release of the year belonged to Tibor Takács‘s follow-up to his 1987 gateway horror movie. Here’s a look back at 1992’s horror movie highlights. Beyond franchise sequels and emerging classics, 1992 seemed to embrace horror-comedies, and thrillers were all the rage.
But 1992 also delivered an all-time classic, a massive-scaled period epic that took home the highest-grossing horror prize for the year, plenty of Stephen King, and a few titles with an enduring grip on pop culture. Happy 30th anniversary to 1992’s Class of Horror Movies! Still early into a decade often ranked the worst for the genre, the year’s theatrical output strongly favored sequels to beloved ’80s favorites.
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