The year of 1997 has some pretty awesome films and among those are horror films. It seems like every year we get more memorable horror films. But at the same time some pretty lame ones as well.

5-Star Ranking – Best of the Best

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4-Star Ranking – Top 10 Worthy

• Anaconda – It focuses on a documentary film crew in the Amazon rainforest that is captured by a snake hunter who is hunting down a giant, legendary green anaconda. Directed by Lui Llosa.
• Mimic – Three years ago, entomologist Dr. Susan Tyler genetically created an insect to kill cockroaches carrying a virulent disease. Now, the insects are out to destroy their only predator, mankind. Directed by Guillermo del Toro.

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3-Star Ranking – Good Entertainment

• Event Horizon – Set in 2047, it follows a crew of astronauts sent on a rescue mission after a missing spaceship, the Event Horizon, spontaneously appears in orbit around Neptune, only to discover that a sinister force has come back with it. Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson.
• Scream 2 – Scream 2 takes place two years after the first film and again follows the character of Sidney Prescott, and other survivors of the Woodsboro massacre, at the fictional Windsor College in Ohio, where they are targeted by a copycat killer using the guise of Ghostface. Directed by Wes Craven.
• The Relic – In the film, a detective and a biologist try to defeat a South American lizard-like monster which is on a killing spree in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. Directed by Peter Hyams.
• Trucks – It follows the story of a group of tourists and locals attacked by autonomous trucks and other inexplicable phenomena in a rural town. Directed by Chris Thomson.
• I Know What You Did Last Summer – The film centers on four young friends who are stalked by a hook-wielding killer one year after covering up a car accident in which they supposedly killed a man. Directed by Jim Gillespie.

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2-Star Ranking – Could’ve Been Better

• Alien Resurrection – Two centuries after her death, a powerful human/alien hybrid clone of Ellen Ripley aids a crew of space pirates in stopping the aliens from reaching Earth. Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
• Wishmaster – Its plot concerns a djinn, a wish-granting, evil genie who is released from a jewel and seeks to capture the soul of the woman who discovered him, thereby opening a portal and freeing his fellow djinn to inhabit and enslave the Earth. Directed by Robert Kurtzman.

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1-Star Ranking – Total Trash

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