![]() ![]() ![]() It made $21 million at the box office on a $12 million budget. Stir of Echoes came out one month later, but it didn’t matter too much. The Sixth Sense also managed to overshadow another little ghost story. Not only did the Sixth Sense deliver at the box office and provided some good jump scares. That is great and with Scream and the Sixth Sense, the 2000s looked to be a great decade for horror…it was. It brought so many to the theater grossing over $670 million worldwide. The Sixth Sense was a massive success and huge for the genre. Probably one of, if not the biggest horror film of 1999 sometimes is arguably not a horror film. Unfortunately movies like A Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th were far in the rear view at this point. It was a great year for horror and to he a horror fan. We saw one of the early found footage films in the gritty and raw The Blair Witch Project, along with some kind of end of the world Satanic Panic type of films, The Ninth Gate, End of Days and Stigmata. A couple remakes of classics like House on Haunted Hill (1959) and The Haunting (1963), which both had remakes in 1999, only one of them was good. But 1999 saw a wave of different kind of horror, not only the teen slasher craze, but a return to ghost stories. Sure movies like Scream (1996) and I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) helped usher on a wave of teen slasher movies that no doubt revived a suffering genre. Believe it or not, 1999 was a pretty big year in horror.
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