The Witches
1990 · MovieA boy on holiday with his grandmother stumbles into a hotel conference room full of witches and overhears exactly the wrong thing.
Ranked by HorroRated · Updated October 19, 2026
Best Horror Movies of 1990
HorroRated has reviewed 11 horror movies released in 1990, ranked here best first. The Witches, Society and Night of the Living Dead (1990) lead the list.
Two Brian Yuzna films made the 1990 list: the Beverly Hills satire Society and Bride of Re-Animator, where Herbert West stitches together a bride. Nicolas Roeg's The Witches gave kids a gloriously gross nightmare, and makeup legend Tom Savini directed his own Night of the Living Dead.
1990 horror movies, best first
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PickSociety
1990 · MovieBill Whitney is a popular, wealthy Beverly Hills teenager who grows more uneasy about his family by the day. The more he looks, the more wrong things get.
Night of the Living Dead (1990)
1990 · MovieThe dead are rising and a group of survivors locks themselves in a farmhouse. Fear does as much damage as what's outside.
Bride of Re-Animator
1990 · MovieEight months after the first film, Herbert West and Dan Cain are field medics in a Peruvian civil war. Back in Arkham, West gets to work building a whole woman from spare parts.
Frankenhooker
1990 · MovieJeffrey Franken loses his fiancée Elizabeth to a horrific lawnmower accident and decides to bring her back. Since he only saved her head, he goes shopping for the rest.
Predator 2
1990 · MovieLos Angeles, 1997: the city is baking, and drug gangs are fighting open battles in the streets when an invisible hunter starts carving through both sides. One stubborn police lieutenant decides to take it personally.
Child's Play 2
1990 · MovieAndy Barclay is in foster care. Chucky has been rebuilt from salvaged material and knows exactly where Andy is.
The Exorcist III
1990 · MovieLieutenant Kinderman investigates a series of ritualistic murders that keep leading him somewhere he doesn't want to go.
Psycho IV: The Beginning
1990 · MovieNorman Bates calls into a late-night radio show to talk about mothers. He has a lot to say.
Brain Dead
1990 · MovieA neurosurgeon agrees to help a corporation access information locked in a paranoid patient's mind. The deeper he goes, the less certain he is about what he's actually experiencing.
Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III
1990 · MovieTwo travelers take the wrong road in rural Texas and end up in the territory of a larger, better-equipped version of the Sawyer family.
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1990 in Horror, by the Numbers
- Reviewed
- 11 films: 2 Legendary, 3 Highly Recommended, 3 Recommended, 2 Worth a Look and 1 If You're Curious
- Average score
- 3.3 of 5 tapes, against 3.3 across all 519 movies in the archive
- Leading subgenres
- Body Horror (4 films), Dark Comedy (3)
- HorroRated Picks
- The Witches and Society
- Directors with more than one film
- Brian Yuzna (Society and Bride of Re-Animator)
- Streaming in the US
- 3 of 11, 3 of them free, as of November 10, 2026
Ranked by HorroRated score, then Picks, then newest release. How the year lists work
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Frequently Asked Questions About 1990 Horror Movies
What is the best horror movie of 1990?
Two films from 1990 share HorroRated's top verdict, Legendary, and all are HorroRated Picks: The Witches and Society. They're tied, so the list shows the newest first, starting with The Witches.
Which directors have more than one 1990 film on this list?
Brian Yuzna, with Society and Bride of Re-Animator.
Which 1990 horror movies are part of a franchise?
Five of the 11 films come from franchises with a HorroRated watch-order guide, a bigger share than in most years: Predator 2, Child's Play 2, The Exorcist III, Psycho IV: The Beginning and Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III.