Unbeknownst to a lot of movie-goers, some well-known (and some infamous) flicks from the ’90s and beyond were adapted from Dark Horse Comics, a publisher that started up in 1986 as an alternative to DC and Marvel. Here are six of those films from the 1990s:

The Mask (1994)

From our review: “The Mask was one of the first cult movies I ever encountered that I knew well in advance had achieved that status. It came out while I was still in elementary school, and it got quoted ad nauseum by certain classmates (or so it seems looking back on it).”

Barb Wire (1996)

From our review: “Ultimately, Barb Wire is an unbelievably trite, boring, hypocritical, seriously flawed attempt at an action flick, based on a comic that wasn’t that good to begin with, and starring a pair of fake boobs with a bad actress attached to them.”

Timecop (1994)

From our review: “Minor quibbles aside, Timecop is actually rather famous in the Van Damme oeuvre for how good it is. I mean, it’s not Gone With the Wind good or even Gone in Sixty Seconds good, but JCVD actually delivered a pretty solid movie in Timecop.”

Tank Girl (1995)

From our review: “Tank Girl slaps you in the face from minute one to minute one hundred and four with edgy non-conformist attitude. Our spunky heroine (gleefully portrayed by Lori Petty) is part punkette, part war machine fetishist, and fashion icon.”

Virus (1999)

From our review: “It then whittles away the time by turning the entire crew into cyborgs, all of which look like rejects Star Trek’s Borg. The overflow from this project gets pretty gruesome as the boarders discover all the human body parts lined up like a conveyer belt, ready for assembly.”

Mystery Men (1999)

From our review: “The key point is that the characters always seem to be just about winking into the camera; they never take themselves or this silly plot too seriously, and it really ends up working.”