The best horror branded content is not that easy to find. You are apt to begin searching obvious domain names, like horror.net. This is another example, of what could be called a websites chain of horror branded content. The sites that comprise the chain are:
- horror.net
- buried.com
- samhain.com
- hauntedhouses.com
- horrormovies.com
The last time I checked this site looked broken on several browsers. The aggregation system doesn’t have any flexibility for serious horror curating. It seems that the internet horror community didn’t adopt it because of the obtuse and lacking-features design.
This promotes a random frame of mind that preconditions one to accept whatever is given. Seriously, what were the designers thinking when they did this? It reflects on the content, very old, non-updated things. At the time of this writing, the last entries were from seven years and eleven months prior.
A great idea badly executed. Naysayers will say it’s just a museum now. But let’s see it for what it’s worth. I’m sure that going through the mass of these portals would be a field day for curators.
But before, let me explain what I think are some examples of where the idea of creating a Horror supernode was badly executed:
1.The site has a lot of links in the sidebars, in the right one it has horror categories, and in the left one are the website’s features. I would have streamlined the categories in any other way instead of making a secondary menu in the page.
2.A great percentage of pages are starved for content. A blatant example is the Advertise Here section. No explanation or sales energy at all in it, just a mystery-deal email address to contact them. Seriously, what is with the secrecy? Why should I waste time and give my email address for something that should be correctly advertised on the site?
3.Probably the worst example of bad aggregation, that sticks out like a summer boil, is the section of Free Horror Fonts. I would have posted all the fonts in a single page. Not like they did, creating a page for each letter of the alphabet. Especially considering that each of those pages has 0 in the way of content, just a squalid micro-copy each, and a list of fonts for that particular letter.
4.The horror movie reviews section is completely dysfunctional. There is no content at all. The same for the horror fiction reviews section. Maybe they moved that content to any of the other websites in the chain?
Horror.net’s Directory to find Best Horror Branded Content
The most valuable section of this website is the directory of horror websites. I tested some of the links that horror.net promotes, some are dead, but some took me to horror bloggers and such, sites still being updated that seem interesting.
I guess if your intention is learning about horror, its age makes it valuable due to the entries being so old. If the horror things they link to are still up, that does mean something.
What makes this feature of the site very valuable for horror fans and horror workers alike is the fact that it’s focused on horror.
If you need to find something very especific, you don’t need to input add the word horror to your search phrase, and that makes the search much more to the point than if you were searching for the item in any generalist search engine.
Beware of the Random Site Feature!
If you click on the Random Site feature of horror.net, you might be thrown back to an Angelfire time-capsule, vaguely related to horror, website that looks it was created with Netscape Navigator’s HTLM editor in 1997. That, if you’re lucky. Most probably you’ll be thrown to a site domain parking page, product of the site’s contemporary non-existence.
Horror.net’s Brands
Below, a list of the associated site that constitute horror.net horror branded content chain.
Buried.com
- Horror Movies Database (12555 movies)
- Horror Movies Reviews (4900+ reviews)
- Horror Fiction Reviews (1000+ reviews)
- Horror Interviews (300+ items)
- Horror Editorials
- Horror Conventions
- Classic Horror Films: links to Horror.net’s tribute sites
Buried.com Tribute Sites:
The ultimate low-effort thing to do in the search for the best horror branded content would be to use the brand of others to crate websites, without bringing nothing new to the table. These are the sites I am talking about:
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- The Evil Dead
- Friday the 13th
- Halloween
- A Nightmare on Elm Street
- The Living Dead
Samhain.com
Halloween search directory. Sixteen sections with links to more than 1000 sites. The sections seem to cover almost everything related to Halloween. From the history of the holiday to even Halloween cooking or safety.
HauntedHouses.net
Haunted houses directory. Currently broken.
Horrormovies.org / Brimstone Pit
Horror movies database. Has a basic initial-based organization. Still, it also allows searching horror movies with its search function. It can be a broad search or narrowed down by title, plot, actor, director, producer, writer, composer, or keyword.
Should be horror.net considered among the best horror branded content chains? Hardly, the idea is there, but it looks like it was implemented in 2006 and then let to rot without improvements, actualizations and the adding of new features. If you want to become really disgusted by this chain, look in horror.net the What's Cool page, and you will see that this chain was more of a self-serving affair.
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