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Now that we’re nearly 20 years removed and the dust has settled on the 1990s, the decade long believed to be a wasteland for horror movies is finally being reconsidered for the number of really good films it actually did produce. Because there weren’t as many horror movies being released as in the 1980s and because the genre wasn’t part of the cultural conversation the way it previously had been, critics and audiences didn’t know what to make of a number of titles as they slowly dripped out over the course of the decade. That led to some unfairly negative reviews and disappointing box office results as horror movies were given a bad name, until they began finding their audiences on home video just a few years later. This is great news, because it means that Tales from the Hood is finally getting its due as one...

Ryan Dunn's sudden death early Monday shocked Jackass fans. Here are five other TV stars whose lives were abruptly ended in car crashes: 1. Justin Mentell: Best known for playing a young lawyer during the early days of Boston Legal, the actor had returned to his native Midwest to work on art and music when he was killed in a single-car accident in 2010. He was 27. 2. Lamont Bentley: In 2005, the Moesha favorite—he played Brandy's friend-turned-boyfriend Hakeem on the 1990s comedy—was on his way home from a Los Angeles movie screening when his car careened off the freeway. The actor was 31. 3. Ernie Kovacs: On a rainy night in 1962, the influential comic was 42, and in...