From: manowarkills@NOSPAMnetscape.net

On 10/7/2019 9:37 AM, Simon T wrote:

Bit of a nostalgic post. But, as per the subject heading, the House of Horrors was essentially one of those old style fan sites, in which the webmaster reviewed and recommended his favourite cult films.

I had to take a look at it using the Way back Machine and it does look
vaguely familiar.

Lately, I usually visit Kitley's Krypt as he covers local to me events.
His most recent post is a glowing review of Argento's autobiography.

http://www.kitleyskrypt.com/


Andrew

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From: manowarkills@NOSPAMnetscape.net

On 10/7/2019 1:59 PM, the dog from that film you saw wrote:

you did however inspire me to look at an old forum i once used

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/mhvf/index.php

how sad! - over a year since the last post in european cult cinema.

I thought they had closed their doors years ago!


Andrew

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From: burke.dennings@cunting.hun

the dog from that film you saw <dsb@REMOVETHISBITbtinternet.com> wrote:

you did however inspire me to look at an old forum i once used https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/mhvf/index.php
how sad! - over a year since the last post in european cult cinema.

There were too many daft fucking rules on that site.

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From: burke.dennings@cunting.hun

Andrew <manowarkills@NOSPAMnetscape.net> wrote:

His most recent post is a glowing review of Argento's autobiography.

I thought it was SHIT.

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From: dsb@REMOVETHISBITbtinternet.com

On 07/10/2019 15:37, Simon T wrote:

Bit of a nostalgic post. But, as per the subject heading, the House of Horrors was essentially one of those old style fan sites, in which the webmaster reviewed and recommended his favourite cult films.

can't say i ever heard of it.

you did however inspire me to look at an old forum i once used

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/mhvf/index.php

how sad! - over a year since the last post in european cult cinema.

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From: darkangel5@DONTEMAILMEbtinternet.com

Bit of a nostalgic post. But, as per the subject heading, the House of
Horrors was essentially one of those old style fan sites, in which the webmaster reviewed and recommended his favourite cult films.

For many years it was probably the most popular horror website on the
internet and indeed was one of the inspirations for my own.

I believe it's webmaster, a chap named John Wheatman I believe, used to frequent these parts back in the late 90s when Usenet was still a big thing.

However, these old style fan pages, started going out of style in the
early 2000s as horror fans became more interested in reviews of upcoming
films and disc releases. And sites like Bloody Disgusting and Arrow in
the Head became the go-to websites.

It seems some effort was made to modernise House of Horrors in 2005, by changing the opening page into a news section for upcoming films and
reviews, which ran for a further 10 years. Although, the old part of the
site seemed very neglected. Graphics were missing, having not been
re-uploaded after changing servers and it contained many broken links.

The final update seemed to have been in 2015 and then became a ghost site.

Then last year (2018) something strange happened, the site appeared to
have been given a makeover. No new articles, but more proffesional
looking, however the main page also contained links to Bollywood movies.

Now, visiting www.houseofhorrors.com just takes you to a load of links
to Bollywood films. Seems he let the domain expire, and whoever snatched
it up copied the site and suck a load of dodgy movie links on there,
before ditching the old site entirely. Indeed a similar thing happened
to the old Cabinet of Dr Casey website which was the oldest horror
website on the net.

So, another one bites the dust.

I often wonder how much longer I should keep my website going, but as
long as promo companies keep sending me free stuff to review I'll hang
on to it for now.

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Best Wishes
Simon (Dark Angel)
http://www.realmofhorror.co.uk

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From: darkangel5@DONTEMAILMEbtinternet.com

On 07/10/2019 19:59, the dog from that film you saw wrote:

can't say i ever heard of it.

you did however inspire me to look at an old forum i once used

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/mhvf/index.php

how sad! - over a year since the last post in european cult cinema.

Used to be a string of good websites in the late 90s and early 00s

House of Horrors, Losman's Lair of Horror, Mortado's Page of Filth, Pit
of Horror, Diabolical Dominion.

Oldest was Cabinet of Dr Casey.

One of my personal faves was a site on Geocities (remember that host?)
called Michelle's website, who reviewed a lot of horror films and was
another site that inspired me to start my own.

All gone now.

Sex Gore Mutants, which is a UK site, is still online but hasn't been
updated in a year. Only other website from back then thats still going
is Hysteria (or Hysteria-Lives as it's now called), run by our friend Mr Karsewell.

--
Best Wishes
Simon (Dark Angel)
http://www.realmofhorror.co.uk



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From: amosnomore@hotmail.com

On 2019-10-08 14:19:54 +0000, Andrew said:

On 10/7/2019 5:34 PM, Dr Walpurgis wrote:

Andrew <manowarkills@NOSPAMnetscape.net> wrote:

His most recent post is a glowing review of Argento's autobiography.

I thought it was SHIT.

Do you care to elaborate?

He'll probably just put an E on the end.

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From: manowarkills@NOSPAMnetscape.net

On 10/7/2019 5:34 PM, Dr Walpurgis wrote:

Andrew <manowarkills@NOSPAMnetscape.net> wrote:

His most recent post is a glowing review of Argento's autobiography.

I thought it was SHIT.

Do you care to elaborate?



Andrew

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From: burke.dennings@cunting.hun

The White Lady <me@privacy.net> wrote:

His most recent post is a glowing review of Argento's autobiography.

I thought it was SHIT.

Aw, and you were so excited about it. What a SHAME.

I was reminded of that episode of ALAN PARTRIDGE (“needless to say, I had
the last laugh” and “I don’t think anecdotes are your forte”).

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From: me@privacy.net

Dr Walpurgis <burke.dennings@cunting.hun> wrote in news:qngeii$lnd$1 @drwalpurgis.motzarella.org:

Andrew <manowarkills@NOSPAMnetscape.net> wrote:

His most recent post is a glowing review of Argento's autobiography.

I thought it was SHIT.

Aw, and you were so excited about it. What a SHAME.

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