The MoFos Top 100 of the 90s Countdown - Redux

Yeah, it all felt very overblown. I had absolutely no fear leading to it. Of course the AI craze doesn’t faze me either. I’m probably just too dumb to be scared of computers. I guess time will tell, but I’m old as dirt so I won’t be here for the dawn of the machine takeover I’m sure.

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Rodent, it doesn't come up for me.

Wow really?!?!

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90's Redux Seen: 18/34
My List 2/25
#12 The Crow
One Pointer: The Polar Bear King

Blair Witch Project was my one pointer. It came out when I was 12 and my parents wouldn’t let me see it, but the hype alone caused loss of sleep and nightmares, so probably good call on their part. Finally saw it in my ‘20s and it scared the shit out of me, again losing sleep. It seems pretty divisive on who finds it scary or not and I get it. But its impact on horror going forward is huge.

I watched Beauty and the Beast a lot as a kid but haven’t seen it since my childhood. It was part of that big Disney resurgence from that time, alongside the likes of Aladdin and The Little Mermaid. I wonder how well they hold up now, I’m guessing pretty well. Anyone with kids pass these movies down? I bet they still work on new generations.

I'm a big horror fan but I prefer violent horror as opposed to what Blair Witch has to offer. However the one time I saw it when it came out was an effective movie going experience. My wife and I were driving to a vacation destination when we decided to stop halfway in some creepy hick town in the middle of nowhere. We went to see Blair Witch at their creepy old cinema and at least for that one night it worked. A fond memory and I plan on leaving it that way.

There are plenty of animated films that I like but Beauty and the Beast ain't one of them.

That's like saying Titanic and Speed 2 are the same movie because of the (potential) high body count.

the film from my ballot i thought had the best chance of making it i had blair witch at #10. was too young to catch it in theatre at the time but i certainly remember the hype and even just watching it at home its still incredibly effective. the best example of found footage horror other than Noroi which perfected the style.


i only saw beauty and the beast once in my early 20's which was not the time in my life i was gonna be open to disney films. i'd be a lot more open to it now i'm sure.

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I rewatched Blair Witch a year and a half ago for the 50th Birthday Horrorthon and was floored by how good it really is. I have included a very condensed version of my review...

"There just aren’t that many movies that can scare me any more. Turns out this is one of them.
I remember when I saw it in the theater, I was already a somewhat seasoned Horror fan, and I could not sleep that night, couldn't even turn out the lights. And here I was sitting in my own living room, watching it for the first time in maybe a dozen years, experiencing something I haven't in years: chills running up my spine...
This movie hit because it's extremely well-made, lightning in a bottle, and that's all there is to it... It’s taut, almost propulsive.
...this movie paints a chilling picture of what real witchcraft might look like and maybe that’s why it gets to me so much. That and how very real the terror feels like it feels to the characters.
...Ebert, in his practically effusive praise of the film, was right, the actors really carry this. the almost mumble-core realism of the acting really, really sells the whole thing.
...I was more on edge after this movie than after any Horror movie I've seen in years, even though I've seen it twice or thrice before. This movie often gets shade and I'll never understand why. Some upstart independent filmmakers got a very little money and some improv actors together and made a film that's scary as hell and took the World by storm. It is not this film's fault, everything that came after it. This movie works, period."

In short, The Blair Witch Project is almost magic and is an independent cinematic achievement to be celebrated and to be savored by people who like to be scared.

Blair Witch I'm not a horror fan, not at all. But when I seen Blair Witch it worked and worked well as it was psychological and not a blood fest. It was a fresh approach that didn't feel like something churned out by a movie making machine aka Hollywood. I live in a rural area surrounded by trees and woods and the movie crept me out for a day or two. Glad it made the countdown, but I have no desire to watch it again as the second time around it might not be as effective for me.

Beauty and the Beast, I'm also not an animation fan. I do like like some Studio Ghibli films and even some of the older Pixar but Disney films, meh.

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The Blair Witch Project is overrated garbage. Let's make an amateur horror movie where nothing happens and shoot it on a shitty camera from the cameraman's perspective so everyone applauds it as "groundbreaking" and "realistic" when we actually put in the least possible amount of effort. It's no mystery why nobody talks about any the director's other movies.

There are paranormal investigation videos where equally as little shit happens.

There are urban exploration videos that are more watchable than this.

There are vlogs that are more terrifying.

I would rather watch Cloverfield. It does not get bonus points from me for being the first in a shitty trend, and it wasn't even the first.


Beauty and the Beast on the other hand was my #26, just barely missing my list.

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Beauty and the Beast was my #3! I'm actually shocked it didn't rate higher. So many people my age know all the songs by heart.

Perfectly animated and wonderfully performed. The movie is so iconic. And Belle is the Disney Princess i grew up wanting to marry. Hubba Hubba!
Granted, 'falling in love with your captor' has not aged well, but it's still dear to my heart.

Blair Witch was my #27, just missing my list. It gets a lot of flack for starting a genre that overstayed its welcome, but people forget that it's a subtle and brilliant horror/suspense movie, that knows that the scariest things are what you can't see.

Seen: 17/24
List: 3/25

I don't know if I'm older than dirt. Let's just say I can remember when Kennedy was assassinated.

And, actually, the AI stuff does scare me. Not the stuff in the news. Again, that's just click-bait stirring a pot that's only half full. There is far more sinister, and deeper, scarier s---- being worked on by hackers, billionaires, and governments (from your own, to rogue states) that you don't hear about. That's the stuff that could tear our reality apart by the seams.

OH, yeah, this thread is about movies of the 90s. Pretty sure The Matrix is in our future. I mean, the future of this thread, of course.

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I'm going to try and remember your post for whenever we redo the 1980s countdown and this movie makes it:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087803/


It's relevant.

Like I said in my review, what's more ludicrous for me is that they're infiltrating a group of surfers, so they pick the one guy that doesn't know how to surf. I mean, wasn't there just one surfer dude in the FBI? or couldn't they have trained him before so he wouldn't seem that out of place?

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Regardless of our thoughts on Beauty and the Beast as a whole, can we all agree that Gaston is the most loveable Disney chauvinist? Gaston is the best and the rest are all drips.

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Anyway, I love Beauty and the Beast and I thought about it, but it doesn't really crack my Disney Top 5, and I have other 90s Disney favorites above it. Still, it's gorgeously animated and I love the story.

The Blair Witch Project, on the other hand, that's my jam. Saw that in theaters and, even though I don't think I ever believed it, I was all into it. I was a Boy Scout when I was a teen, so having a film about three teenagers getting lost in the woods was something that appealed to me. Moreover, I think it's a perfect example of how movies can take advantage of external factors, like marketing and the Internet, to create a whole different animal out of it. Here's an excerpt of what I wrote last time I rewatched it (and here's the whole review link):

Anyway, it's amazing, it's my favorite found footage film, and it would probably make my Top 10 Horror film list. Here, I had it at #9.


SEEN: 13/24
MY BALLOT: 3/25

My sibling Amber always said she could tell how good something new really was by two factors:


1. How many gifs it had on Tumblr.


2. How much porn their was of it online.

I'm not above clicking a URL. Good stuff! Best breakdown I've seen of how similar they are yet. It would be interesting to know if The Lost Boys inspired Point Break as well because you could substitute surfing for vampirism.

Point Break is spectacularly entertaining and ridiculous in a good way, but didn't make my ballot. It would probably make a ballot of 50, though.