As YouTube, Netflix, and Hulu continue to raise the bar for online entertainment focusing on quality web shows, the horror genre seems to have tagged along for the ride. AMC featured" Everything Dies", their web version of their wildly popular TV series The Walking Dead during Season 2. Fearnet has continued to grow their fan base offering various horror web series on their website.
Horror X is a new network completely focused on horror series entertainment featuring new shows like Inzombnia as well as pictorials of up and coming horror filmmakers. YouTube also a formidable slew of horror web series with shows like Left for Dead and Bite Me which have fueled tremendous viral interest on YouTube. Netflix also put its horror hat in the ring with their horror web series Splatter. Hulu has yet to feature a horror web show but of course, it's inevitable as the content and demand for horror web series content continues to amass a following.The growth of web series productions can be attributed to the lackluster efforts from the TV networks in bringing horror genre entertainment forward. The ghost and vampire genres have seen some life on TV in a watered down sense, but hardly the level of horror the fan base really demands. Twilight gave way to soap opera fashioned series like The Vampire Diaries and Teen Wolf but the focal point of those series is definitely the soap opera arcs of the characters rather than the horror aspects. Of course, the point of those twists on the genre is the fact they are targeting a female demographic. Horror has primarily male demographic which up until web series, has not been catered to in TV programming.
The Walking Dead has been the TV series to be the most truthful to horror fans as it delicately balances drama and gore, translating into a draw for bi-gender demographic. Their delving into the bloody aspects of horror has reaped the benefits of being the highest rated cable series ever. Maybe more networks will follow, but as of now, the chunk of real horror is found online. And considering the limitations of censorship on TV it would be doubtful a TV program could ever go the lengths a web series could capitalize on without the claws of the FCC stifling good horror. But as the internet and cable TV become more integrated and interactive in the future, the bland mass branding of mainstream entertainment will have boundary-less horror web series' networks to contend with.
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