Overview Block Three

In Search of Darkness: 1995-1999

Directed by David Weiner and picking up where In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994 left off, our next installment dives enthusiastically into late ’90s Horror using the same format: spotlighting movies year-by-year with larger-context chapters in between covering everything from mainstream favourites to lesser-known straight-to-video classics.

Here are just a few of our favorite sections:

The Meta Movement Dissected - Our cast explores how self-referential horror reshaped the genre and defined the period, examining everything from the game-changing Scream to the snarky subversion of Bride of Chucky, and how horror's newfound self-awareness created a generation of fans who were finally in on the bloody joke.