Every now and then people get the craving for a horror film. Maybe one they haven’t seen in ages or one they don’t have. Maybe it’s one they haven’t seen yet. If that’s the case, where would they go? Illegal movie sites are seriously cringe worthy with the possibility of worms, trojans, and even identity theft. Plus, it’s illegal to download movies. So where does that leave people?
Most of the time people search “watch free horror movies” or “stream free horror movies”. Some are illegal and others are out of business.
A better search string would be more like: “watch free full length horror movies online” or “free horror movies online without downloading”. However, that doesn’t always give people the best results; there are still some sketchy places that show up in that better search string. Listed below are some decent places to watch people’s “favorite scary movie” that are more trustworthy.
- YouTube: If you search “Horror Classic” you may find a place that will allow you to stream it for free. Some people have movies broken into a few posts which can get annoying but at least it’s watchable. Some watchable classic horror films on YouTube are: Carnival of Souls (1962), Night of the Living Dead and Nosferatu.
- Fright Pix: This site provides access to hundreds of free streamable horror films with picture quality ranging from good to fair (for the internet). They mostly have B films (meaning not mainstream/hasn’t made it to the “silver screens”) however people would be surprised how some B films are excellent and could really put some actual “A” films to shame. FrightPix surprisingly also has a large number of “sexy horror flicks” if people are into that. The downside – very similar to Channel 4’s On Demand (4oD) it has at least six commercial breaks but hey, that gives people time to grab another snack/drink or a toilet break!
- Popcorn Flix: This is a site similar to FrightPix; just a smaller version.
- Zumvo: This has a huge wealth of horror films. No site will have every single horror film that an individual could think of however, it has a very good library. It has contemporary movies such as “Dead Snow” (2009) and “Dawn of the Dead” (2004) but it also has some classics like the original “Psycho”. The good thing is there’s no commercial breaks. The bad: Some links to movies may be broken.
- OV Guide: This site provides 700 + horror films for free. Most tend to be B films and even some “World Cinema” horror films which is good – gives people some culture with their corn starch blood. The drawback: There’s commercial breaks and some advertisements.
- Crackle: This is a very small site with less than 50 horror films however they are some good ones like Candyman to Rec. The downside is again, there are commercial breaks but that’s about it.
- Hulu Plus: Although this is a service that people pay for, there are some really good horror B films on here that are free to customers. The only drawback is commerical breaks on an average of 20 minutes.
- B-Movies: This site has hundreds of classic horror films from the 1960s and 1970s – some in some need of TLC however this site will have those more “hard to find” films for free. This site is commercial free however, the quality of the films vary!
- Retrovision: This site provides 100 + classic black and white horror films such as the original House on Haunted Hill (more scary than the remake!) plus some more difficult ones to find like “The Driller Killer” (1979) all for free and it’s commercial free. The only drawbacks is that the quality varies and there can be some sound issues.
- PutLocker: This is in general for movies. This site is alright, quality and even links can be sketchy but they do have more recent films on it with no commercial breaks.
Grab the popcorn, turn off the lights, draw the curtains, and get to screaming.
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