Reply #30: The second half of the nineties also saw the return of

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slasher films to widespread popularity with Wes Craven's re-energizing "Scream" in 1996 and its sequel in 1997. Lesser films like 1997's "I Know What You Did Last Summer" were quick to capitalize on the trend.

That genre had become pretty jaded in the eighties and early nineties until those two films breathed new life into it and brought bigger audiences back into the theatres. It also probably didn't hurt that 1997 was the debut of Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a tv series, although it never quite lived up to the original 1992 feature film.