This video for me was a lifetime in the making. When I watched the “Blade” review by Redlettermedia, when Jay mentioned “90s cool” I had a lightbulb moment. There were so many of these movies that I grew up loving, that as Jay described it were all about “leather, sunglasses and techno”.

Digging deeper, I realized that while these films had so many unifying features, there was no genre to unify it. I mean, Blade and the Matrix are clearly so similar, but they’re not both “Cyberpunk” or “dark fantasy”. They’re something different.


I think “90s cool” as Jay called it is a perfect fit for this genre. It doesn’t mean they were released in the 90s. It’s moreso the version of “cool” that was created IN the 90s. I went back and made a list of every film I feel fits in this genre, and will present what I feel are the best movies it has to offer.

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The One, The Punisher (2004), Existenz, XXX, Resident Evil, Vampires, Tomb Raider, Hackers, Romeo Must Die, The Craft, Kiss of the Dragon (2001), The Replacements, Returner (2002), SWAT, Swordfish, Final Fantasy 7, Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines, Enter the Matrix (the Matrix games), Devil May Cry, Headhunter, Riddick, Metal Gear Solid, bloodrayne, Dark City, Resident Evil, Deux Ex, Fight Club, Doom, Oni, Perfect Dark, Fear Effect, bloodrayne, Postal 2, Shadow Man, red steel, Beyond Good and Evil, WWF: No Mercy, Dead or Alive, stranglehold, The Matrix, Ghostrider, Daredevil 2003, Underworld, X-Men 2000, Blade, The Boondock Saints, Pitch Black, The Chronicles of Riddick, Pitch Black, Bulletproof Monk, Spawn 1997, Desperado, Kill Bill Vol 1, Tomorrow Never Dies, Mortal Kombat 1995, Hellboy 2004, Face/off, Blade 1997, The Crow, Highlander, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, I Robot, Constantine 2005, Equilibrium 2002, Ultraviolet,