I conjure the name of Castle simply because they have chosen three (fake) films to show during their all-night fundraiser that all appear to help from the 1950s/1960s and all have some sort of gimmick. While most of these are well-known within horror-loving circles, one such applicable film that doesn’t get nearly enough love is Popcorn.ĭirected by Porky’s trilogy star Mark Herrier and an uncredited Alan Ormsby ( Deranged), Popcorn follows a group of film students who decide to put on a William Castle-style horror movie marathon to raise money for their film program and hopefully fund some of their student projects as well. Both Wes Craven’s New Nightmare and John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness tapped into this obsession with self-examination, as did Fred Dekker’s The Monster Squad years earlier. Naturally the postmodernist tendencies kicked into high-gear after Wes Craven’s Scream was released in late 1996, but the desire of filmmakers in the genre to examine the past was already well under way by then. The early ‘90s (and late ‘80s) saw quite a few self-reflective horror films come along. Starring Jill Schoelen, Tom Villard, Dee Wallace Stone, Derek Rydall, Tony Roberts, Malcolm Danare, Kelly Jo Minter, and Ray Walston
Produced by Ashok Amritraj, Howard Hurst, Torben Johnke, Sophie Hurst, and Bob Clark (uncredited) Screenplay by Mitchell Smith & Tod Hackett Let the mayhem begin!ĭirected by Mark Herrier & Alan Ormsby (uncredited) Stone cold classics will be tackled in this column from time to time, but its main purpose will be to seek out lesser-known and/or less-loved titles that I think deserve more attention and respect from fans. The purpose of Exhumed & Exonerated: The ‘90s Horror Project, is to refute those accusations by highlighting numerous gems from the decade.
Not only that, but ‘90s horror tends to be written off as a whole, beyond a handful of undisputed classics. More often than not, however, the 1990s are labeled as the worst decade for the genre. Horror fans love to loft on high the output of the ‘30s & ‘40s, the ‘70s & ‘80s, and the more recent decades. Every decade has its ups and downs when it comes to cinema, no matter the genre.
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