Saturday, April 16, 2011

Many Horror Movies Online To Give You Goose Bumps

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.

While there were the occasional scary movies in the thirties and forties, it was during the 1950's that they really took, with many studios popping up making horror films only. During this time there many film legends like Bela Lugosi, Vincent Price and Peter Cushing who became famous in tales of the monsters and creatures like Frankenstein, the Wolfman and Dracula.

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.

Horror became serious business in the sixties and a master of the craft was Alfred Hitchcock. You can find many of Hitchcock's horror movies online like The Birds and Psycho. And it was another fright movie master in the late sixties who would influence a generation, George Romero, with his zombie film, Night Of The Living Dead.

There are hundreds of zombie horror movies online, from the big studio productions right down to films made by the fans. This is a genre with such dedicated fans that many have gone out and produced their own movies. There are even a few top directors, and special effects gurus who started out like this.

In the Seventies scary movies began to dominate all the markets, whether they were award-winning studio films like Jaws and The Exorcist, or independent gore films like Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

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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