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Last week, we looked back on the 15 essential sci-fi movies of 1999—a year that brought us The Matrix and the long-awaited return of Star Wars in The Phantom Menace. But horror came a close second that year, led by multiple Oscar nominee The Sixth Sense and indie sensation The Blair Witch Project, among many others.