Best Horror movies of 1990s that are oscar winners or nominees

Sleepy Hollow(1999)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitations of 3 people with the culprit being the legendary apparition, the Headless Horseman.



Shadow of the Vampire(2000)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 74

The filming of Nosferatu (1922) is hampered by the fact that its star Max Schreck is taking the role of a vampire far more seriously than seems humanly possible.



The Cell(2000)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 61

An FBI agent persuades a social worker, who is adept with a new experimental technology, to enter the mind of a comatose serial killer in order to learn where he has hidden his latest kidnap victim.



Hollow Man(2000)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 49

Scientists discover how to make people invisible, but their test subject becomes an insane killer who stalks them.



Flatliners(1990)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 51

Five medical students experiment on "near death" experiences that involve past tragedies until the dark consequences begin to jeopardize their lives.



Death Becomes Her(1992)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 26

When a woman learns of an immortality treatment, she sees it as a way to outdo her long-time rival.



Mary Shelley's Frankenstein(1994)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 24

When the brilliant, but unorthodox scientist, Dr. Victor Frankenstein, rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes, and later swears revenge.



Beloved(1998)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 29

Based on the book by Toni Morrison, in which a slave is visited by the spirit of her deceased daughter.