Meanwhile, the chills keep coming. Next week is the Dennis Quaid thriller SwitchBack. In November, Sigourney Weaver and Winona Ryder get slimy in Alien Resurrection; December has Scream 2 and An American Werewolf in Paris; and early '98 brings Deep Rising (think Titanic: The Scary Version), as well as Phantoms, about mysterious forces wiping out a town, and Nightwatch, a morgue romp starring Ewan McGregor.

No one's predicting how long Hollywood's new creep-athon will last. Williamson thinks an end is inevitable: "There'll probably be a bunch of bad movies that'll kill [the genre] again." But as any good fright-fest fan knows, you can never keep a good killer down.

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Box Office Body Count

SCREAM: Earned $103 million

THE RELIC: Opened at No. 1 in January with $9.1 million

ANACONDA: No. 1 for two weeks in April. Total: $65.6 million.

KISS THE GIRLS: No. 1 for two weeks in October. Has earned $39.2 million.

I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER: Opened at No. 1 with $15.8 million

Originally posted Oct 31, 1997 Published in issue #403 Oct 31, 1997 Order article reprints
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