Main Task Research: Horror films through the decades: The 90's

By the time the 90's came around the Slasher genre was in it's twilight, mounds of corpses and jets of blood and gore didn't faze people anymore. The 90's saw the birth of the sophisticated horror. There can be gore but the sophisticated horror looks more at how a killer's mind works, the psychology side of things. What scares people is the psychological cat and mouse game happening perhaps between the villain and the viewer or the villain and another character. The 90's saw the evolution of the thriller genre. Below is a  clip from 1991 classic "The silence of the lambs".

                           
However in 1996 Wes Craven (creator of A Nightmare On Elm Street and Friday the 13th) came up with one of the greatest films of the 90's; Scream. Not only did Scream use the more sophisticated way to chill viewers with the plot line but it also mixed in the guts and gore of an 80's slasher and even the dress code for an 80's movie serial killer (an unorthodox costume with a scary mask or disfigurement to hide their true face). The teen horror genre was back!