Top Ten for 1990

I've written a thorough recap for 1990, but it's far too long to post right here, so let me now re-direct you to the full recap at 1990: THE YEAR IN HORROR.

_______________________________________________________________________

1990

Top 5

* * * * * * * * * *

1. The Witches

UK, USA / Nicolas Roeg / ★★★1/2

* * * * * * * * * *

2. Misery

USA / Rob Reiner / ★★★1/2

* * * * * * * * * *

3. The Exorcist III

USA / William Peter Blatty / ★★★1/2

* * * * * * * * * *

4. Magic Cop (Qu mo jing cha)

Hong Kong / Wei Tung / ★★★1/2

* * * * * * * * * *

5. Exit

Sweden / Stig Bergqvist, Martti Ekstrand, Jonas Odell, Lars Ohlson / ★★★1/2

_______________________________________________________________________

Rounding Out the Top 10:

6. Scarlet Scorpion, The (O Escorpião Escarlate) / Brazil / (Ivan Cardoso) / ★★★1/2

7. Hard to Die (Tower of Terror) / USA / Jim Wynorski / ★★★

8. Baby Blood (The Evil Within) / France / Alain Robak / ★★★
9. Tremors / USA / Ron Underwood / ★★★
10. Naked Obsession / USA / Dan Golden / ★★★

_______________________________________________________________________

Also seen:

- Alien Within, The / USA / Kenneth J. Hall, Ted Newsom and Fred Olen Ray / ★
- Arachnophobia / USA / Frank Marshall / ★★1/2
- Attack of the Killer Refrigerator / USA [short] / Michael Savino / ★1/2
- Bad Girls from Mars / USA / Fred Olen Ray / ★★★
- Bad Influence / USA / Curtis Hanson / ★★
- Basket Case 2 / USA / Frank Henenlotter / ★★1/2
- Bimbos B.C. / USA [SOV] / Todd Sheets / NO STARS!

- Blood Games / USA / Tanya Rosenberg / ★★1/2
- Bloodmoon / Australia / Alec Mills / ★★
- Blood Salvage / USA / Tucker Johnston / ★★★
- Brain Dead / USA / Adam Simon / ★★1/2
- Buried Alive / USA [TV] / Frank Darabont / ★★★
- Buried Alive / South Africa, USA / Gérard Kikoïne / ★1/2
- Business Trip to the Netherworld (Dao yin jian chu cha) / Hong Kong / Chen-Kuo Chao / ★★
- Channeler, The / USA / Grant Austin Waldman / ★1/2
- Chase from Beyond (Chin nin lui yiu) / Hong Kong / Patrick Yeung / ★★
- Child's Play 2 / USA / John Lafia / ★★1/2
- China Lake Murders, The / USA [TV] / Alan Metzger / ★★1/2
- Click: The Calendar Girl Killer / USA / Ross Hagen, John Stewart / ★
- Crash and Burn / USA / Charles Band / ★★
- Crawlers, The (Contamination .7) / Canada, Italy, USA / Fabrizio Laurenti / NO STARS!
- Chunk Blower / USA [short] / Jim Van Bebber / ★★1/2
- Curse of Kazuo Umezu, The (Umezu Kazuo no Noroi) / Japan [anime] / Naoko Omi / ★★★
- Darkman / USA / Sam Raimi / ★★1/2
- Dark Romances, Vol 1. Born Evil / USA / Mark Shepard / ★1/2
- Dark Side of the Moon, The / USA / D.J. Webster / ★★
- Dead Girls / USA / Dennis Devine / ★★1/2

- Demon Cop / USA / Hal Miles, Rocco Karega and Fred Olen Ray / SBIG
- Demon Wind / USA / Charles Philip Moore / ★★1/2
- Diabolical Vengeance (Vengaza diabolica) / Mexico / Francisco Guerrero / ★★
- Disturbed / USA / Charles Winkler / ★★
- Dozen Ways to Die!!, A / USA / Randall Hill / SBIG
- Dream a Little Evil / USA / Royce Mathew / ★1/2
- Edward Scissorhands / USA / Tim Burton / ★★★
- Evil Spirits / USA / Gary Graver / ★★
- Fatal Charm / USA / Fritz Kiersch / ★★

- Fatal Nightmare (El intruso; Pesadilla fatal) / Mexico / René Cardona III / ★1/2

- Fertilize the Blaspheming Bombshell (Mark of the Beast) / USA / Jeff Hathcock / ★1/2
- First Power, The / USA / Robert Resnikoff / ★★
- Forbidden Agreement (Perjanjian Terlarang) / Indonesia / B.Z. Kadaryono / ★1/2
- Frankenhooker / USA / Frank Henenlotter / ★★
- Gate II (The Gate 2: Trespassers) / Canada, USA / Tibor Takács / ★★2

- Gerorisuto / Japan [short] / Shozin Fukui) / ★1/2
- Ghost Story (De gui gu shi) / Taiwan / Chun-Yat Cheng / ★★★

- Gorgasm / USA / Hugh Gallagher / ★★
- Grave Robbers (Ladrones de tumbas) / Mexico / Rubén Galindo Jr. / ★★1/2
- Graveyard Shift / Japan, USA / Ralph S. Singleton / ★★
- Green Man, The / UK, USA [TV] / (Elijah Moshinsky / ★★1/2
- Gremlins 2: The New Batch / USA / Joe Dante / ★★★
- Guardian, The / USA / William Friedkin / ★★1/2
- Hardware / UK, USA / Richard Stanley / ★★1/2
- Haunted House Elf (Gui wu xiao jing) / Taiwan / Chi Lo / ★1/2
- Haunting Fear / USA / Fred Olen Ray / ★★
- Haunting of Morella, The / USA / Jim Wynorski / ★1/2
- Hell's Trap / Mexico / Pedro Galindo III / ★★1/2
- Hook of Woodland Heights, The / USA / Michael Savino / ★★
- Horror Hall of Fame, The / USA [doc] [TV] / Ron de Moraes / ★★★
- Horse, Woman and Dog (Uma to onna to inu) / Japan / Hisayasu Satô / ★★

- House of Pop 2, The (Baan phi pop 2) / Thailand / Saiyon Srisawat / ★★
- House of Pop 3, The (Baan phi pop 3) / Thailand / Saiyon Srisawat / ★
- I'm Dangerous Tonight / USA [TV] / Tobe Hooper / ★★1/2
- In the Cold of the Night / USA / Nico Mastorakis / ★★1/2

- It / Canada, USA [TV] / Tommy Lee Wallace / ★★1/2
- Kamillions (The Wingates) / USA / Mike B. Anderson / ★★1/2
- Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III / USA / Jeff Burr / ★★
- Linnea Quigley's Horror Workout / USA / Kenneth J. Hall / ★★1/2
- Lisa / USA / Gary Sherman / ★★
- Look Out, Officer! (Shi xiong zhuang gui) / Hong Kong / Sze Yu Lau / ★★
- Lord of the Flies / USA / Harry Hook / ★★1/2
- Lust of Corpse Oil (Tanha Nam Man Phrai) / Thailand / unknown / ★1/2
- Luther the Geek / USA / Carlton J. Albright / ★★1/2
- Maniac Cop 2 / USA / William Lustig / ★★★
- Mark of the Beast (Fertilize the Blaspheming Bombshell) / USA / Jeff Hathcock / ★1/2
- Meridian (Kiss of the Beast) / USA / Charles Band / ★★1/2
- Metamorphosis / Italy, USA / George Eastman / ★★
- Midnight Thunder (Guntur Tengah Malam) / Indonesia / Acok Rachman / ★★

- Midnight Women (Mujeres de medianoche) / Mexico / Christian González / ★★1/2

- Mirage / USA / Bill Crain / ★★
- Mirror Mirror / USA / Marina Sargenti / ★★

- Monster Heaven: Ghost Hero (Yôkai tengoku gôsuto hîrô) / Japan / Macoto Tezuka / ★★1/2

- Night Angel / USA / Dominique Othenin-Girard / ★★1/2
- Nightbreed / USA / Clive Barker / ★★★
- Nightmare Concert (A Cat in the Brain) / Italy / Lucio Fulci / ★★
- Nightmare on the 13th Floor / USA [TV] / Walter Grauman / ★★
- Night of the Dribbler / Canada / Jack Bravman / NO STARS!
- Night of the Living Dead / USA / Tom Savini / ★★1/2
- Outcast / Canada / Roman Buchok / ★★
- Overexposed / USA / Larry Brand / ★★1/2
- Pacific Heights / USA / John Schlesinger / ★★★
- Pale Blood / Hong Kong, USA / V.V. Dachin Hsu / ★★1/2
- Pit and the Pendulum, The / USA / Stuart Gordon / ★★★
- Playroom / USA / Manny Coto / ★1/2
- Pledge Night / USA / Paul Ziller / ★1/2
- Pop Is Strong Enough (Pop Phi Hian; Porb Phee Hien) / Thailand / Atklub / ★1/2

- Predator 2 / USA / Stephen Hopkins / ★★1/2
- Princess of the Night / USA [X] / Fred J. Lincoln / ★★

- Prom Night III: The Last Kiss / Canada / Ron Oliver and Peter R. Simpson / ★★
- Psycho IV: The Beginning / USA [TV] / Mick Garris / ★★
- Repossessed / USA / Bob Logan / ★★
- Ritual of Death, The / Brazil / Fauzi Mansur / ★★1/2
- Satan Place: A Soap Opera from Hell / USA / Scott Aschbrenner, Alfred Ramirez / ★★

- Savage Lust (Deadly Manor) / Spain, USA / José Ramón Larraz / ★★1/2
- Shakma / USA / Tom Logan and Hugh Parks / ★★1/2
- Shock Cinema Volume One / USA [documentary] / Robert Hayes / ★★
- Shock Cinema Volume Two / USA [documentary] / Robert Hayes / ★★
- Shreck / USA [SOV] / Don Adams, Harry James Picardi / ★★1/2
- Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation / USA / Brian Yuzna / ★★1/2
- Singapore Sling (Singapore sling: O anthropos pou agapise ena ptoma) / Greece / Nikos Nikolaidis / ★★1/2
- Slumber Party Massacre III / USA / Sally Mattison / ★★
- Sorority Girls and the Creature from Hell / USA / John McBrearty / ★
- Sorority House Massacre II (Nightie Nightmare) / USA / Jim Wynorski / ★★★
- Soultaker / USA / Michael Rissi / ★★
- Spirits / USA / Fred Olen Ray / ★1/2
- Spontaneous Combustion / USA / Tobe Hooper / ★1/2
- Spooky Family (Zhuo gui he jia huan) / Hong Kong / Yuet-Sang Chin / ★★1/2
- Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The / USA [SOV] / Michael Craig / ★★

- Streets / USA / Katt Shea / ★★★
- Suckling, The / USA / Francis Teri / ★★
- Sword for Truth (Shuranosuke Zanmaken-shi kama mon no otoko) / Japan [anime] / Osamu Dezaki / ★1/2

- Syngenor / USA / George Elanjian, Jr. / ★★1/2
- Tales from the Darkside: The Movie / USA / John Harrison / ★★★
- Torment / UK / Michael J. Murphy / ★★

- Troll 2 / Italy, USA / Claudio Fragasso / SBIG
- Two Evil Eyes (Due occhi diabolici) / Italy, USA /  Dario Argento, George A. Romero / ★★1/2

- Vampire Cop / USA / Donald Farmer / ★1/2
- Vampire Family, The (Family of Vampires; Semya vurdalakov) / Soviet Union / Gennadiy Klimov and Igor Shavlak / ★★1/2
- Violent Deaths (Muertes violentas) / Mexico / Miguel Marte / ★★

- Wanda Whips the Dragon Lady / USA [X] / Kenny Gibb / ★1/2

- Watchers II / USA / Thierry Notz / ★★

- Werewolf Hour, The (Chas oborotnya) / Soviet Union [TV] / Igor Shevchenko / ★★1/2

- Wheels of Terror / USA [TV] / Christopher Cain / ★★★
- Wicked Women / UK [documentary] / Robert Sidaway / ★1/2
- Willies, The / USA / Brian Peck / ★★1/2
- Witch Academy / USA / Fred Olen Ray / ★★
- Witchcraft II: The Temptress / USA / Mark Woods / ★1/2
- Woman's Tranformation (Wanita Jelmaan) / Indonesia / Sofyan Sharna / ★★1/2

_______________________________________________________________________

< Back to 1989