Saturday, April 16, 2011

Many Horror Movies Online To Scare Everyone

By Adriana Noton


If you are fan of horror, the web is now the best source for these films, whether you are searching for major blockbusters or those ones that most video stores have not even heard of. Horror has always been a leading genre when it comes to independent movies, ever since they became part of popular culture in the Fifties. You can find these and other horror movies online on many video hosting sites.

Some of the first films ever made were horrors. Vampire films like the original Nosferatu are over a century old now, and this title and many other classics have become part of the public domain. There were many silent movie classic horrors, but when sound came to cinema, things changed, starting with the scream.

The genre continued to steadily grow until the Fifties when it suddenly exploded. Suddenly studios popped up all around the world dedicated specifically to making scary cinema. Legendary characters and creatures like the Wolfman, Frankenstein and Count Dracula were regular film subjects, and many of the classic horror movies online like these are easy to find.

Drive-Ins became very popular in America around this time, and so began an avalanche of B-movie titles, the most popular being science fiction or horror, or a combination of the two. These cult classics can be found across the net, and can make for a great night of entertainment.

In the Sixties it was the turn of many top directors to lead the genre. If you watch any of Alfred Hitchcock's horror movies online like Psycho or The Birds, you will see the work of a true master of the craft at work, and they normally won many awards. But it was also the decade that introduced George Romero to the world. Night Of The Living Dead, released in 1968, would influence an entire generation of filmmakers and fans alike.

Today zombies are big business. There have been major studio re-makes, video games, and even home-video fan versions. Fans loved them so much, that many of these home-videos are actually pretty good, and has even led to professional careers for many of the make-up artists, special effects artists and directors who made them.

Special effects and violence became a big part of the film genre in the Seventies, whether they were big productions, independent films and even with the fan-made ones. Low budget scary flicks like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre garnered cult status, as did the big studio releases like Jaws and the Exorcist.

It was a time that started the scary franchise, and sequel after sequel began to appear. Friday the Thirteenth, Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street are just three examples of series that had a number of follow-ons and spin-offs. More recently there has been a trend to remake a number of these movies too for a new audience. Other movies like When A Stranger Calls and Amityville Horror have also been re-produced lately.

The past two decades has seen scary productions come from all corners of the world, with many of the best coming from Asia, and Japan specifically. The web has brought all these productions one step closer, so if you are looking for a fright, get searching now.




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