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The former, directed by Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick, blurred the lines between fiction and reality, so much so that audiences were genuinely concerned for the well-being of the protagonists who were seemingly victimized by the eponymous Blair Witch.

Night Shyamalan’s masterpiece, The Sixth Sense. It also spawned a couple of sequels, as well as an American adaptation starring the Americanized “Samara,” The Ring (not quite as terrifying as the Japanese original).Ī year later, a pair of vastly different films closed out the century: The Blair Witch Project, with its dizzying, shaky-camera storytelling, and M. Hideo Nakata’s Ringu burst onto the scene in 1998 and introduced the world to the long-haired Sadako, while also making a lot of people turn away from their television screens as they slept at night. But if you’re looking to educate yourself (or you just enjoy a good scare), here are a few titles you might have heard of, and why they’re household names.Īs the 20 th century drew to a close, a few horror films at the time were so groundbreaking that they easily top lists of many to this day. They may have evolved and created sub-genres over the decades, but the sheer excitement of a house haunted by spirits or a serial killer chasing down his latest victim is enough to get people to pay good money just so they can watch and scream their hearts out in a cinema with fellow fans.Įven within the genre, there are so many subgenres of horror movies that it’s hard to keep track. Horror movies have never really gone out of style.

Can’t sleep? These movies will make sure you don’t sleep peacefully for a very long time.