They are so great. Movies like this, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Single White Female and others. Anyone care to list more for me?
He asked me to forcibly insert the lifeline exercise card into my anus! Donnie Darko
I'm totally with you. Didn't think anybody else would think the same. They were such brilliant ways to pass a night or rainy day. You're right. I think it's because it was when the serial killer genre hit it's peak. Cinema went serial killer crazy, and I've always regarded serial killers (especially the intellectual killers post 'Silence of the Lambs') as a particularly chilling, realistic breed of cinematic evil. The plots were simple but those nineties thrillers really focused on bringing plausible human evil into ordinary households.
Somewhere down the line, with movies trying to become to intrictae for their own good, that magic was lost. Again, well spotted.