10 '90s Horror Movies You Probably Haven’t Seen

After a stellar run of low-budget horror hits through the '70s and '80s, George Romero went off the boil a bit in the '90s, directing only one feature film -- unsung Stephen King adaptation The Dark Half.

Thad Beaumont (Timothy Hutton) is the author of a series of violent and bloody pulp thrillers, but when he decides to kill-off his literary pseudonym in a staged ceremony, it leads to a string of murders matching those in his books. In something of a modern Jekyll & Hyde, Thad's alter-ego George Stark (also played by Hutton) comes to life and soon proves that he will do anything -- including going after Thad's wife and baby -- in order to live on in the real world.

A wild if overlong ride with enough budget to sell its leading double-act, The Dark Half fell prey to a poor run at the box office and a growing distaste through the '90s and early-'00s for the kind of horror that had made both King and Romero big names on the silver screen. Neither leveraging the fan-power to be called a cult hit nor the resurgence in the years since to become a sleeper hit, the film nonetheless endures in the smallest of circles.