They Live

Dawn of the Dead

After Dark

John Carpenter's remark of The Thing

Anything by David Croneburg(SIC)...greatest ever Canadian horror maker.

I agree with you though, just about any late 90s horror movie is either slock, or dependant on special effects to get scare points...they suck like weasels


Oh also get

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, really...check it out and figure out if you really do see the violence

A Clockwork Orange

Alien....Aliens was a scifi, Alien is defiantly a horror movie disguised as a scifi