As you may have noticed, there's been a lot of changes at darkwebonline.com, the upshot of which is that we have lost our database, which contained over 8,000 entries of most of the horror, science fiction and fantasy films ever made, over 600 reviews (which we still have in word format) and data on all the films we have in stock. We have also lost our forum, which was intended to be a big part of our future plans, hosting the Hall of Fame polls and inductee profiles, as well as reviews with pictures, links, trailer videos and graphic images.

Darkwebonline.com was originally set up be a genre specific version of the IMDB, a complete database of horror, science fiction and fantasy film from 1911 (the first feature length films) to the present day. We wanted to sell as many of the films as possible to genre fans, both on collectable VHS and nice shiny DVDs, while entertaining readers with reviews, features, lists and profiles. We also wanted to offer a forum to fans to discuss film and comment on darkwebonline.

Unfortunately, in many ways, we became victims of our own success. Our web hosts decided that our database and forum were too big for them to host, so they had to be removed. For a while, it looked like the end but, with a bit of creative thinking, we realised we could still carry out many of our previous functions, using different means.

The biggest problem is that all our stock was listed on the database, and our reviews were on both the forum and the database, now both lost. However, recent changes on ebay have allowed us to list more stock than ever, so much of our items will be available on there. Not all of it is listed on ebay though, so if you're struggling to find what you want in our stock, you can submit a videotracker request and we'll check to see if we have it in stock. Even if we don't have it, we'll search for it for you, with no obligation to buy.

Regarding reviews, and indeed the loss of the database information, we are planning to turn a negative into a positive. It has been an ambition of ours for some time to draw a complete-as-possible chronological list of horror, sci-f and fantasy movies. This will become our History of Horror project. We will shortly transfer much of the data from the old database to webpages, which will include links to film reviews on webpages, which, much like our forum, will features pics, videos, and interactive features. Our current Reviews page will soon become a A-Z, if you'd prefer to browse that way, and the old Alternative Titles lists, which were "archived" when AKAs were added to our database, will be revived and incorporated into the project.

Other features have been affected too. Our top 100 lists, now incorporated into the Movie Accolades feature, originally linked to reviews held in the database. This is of course no longer possible, so the Top 100 lists will revert to webpage-based lists with links. Our Hall of Fame polls, formally held on the forum, will now be held elsewhere, possibly even on our Facebook page. 

We also had a section of our forum dedicated to promoting new films. This will now be incorporated into our planned "features" page, which will be revived after 10 years(!), so please feel free to send us your promotional materials at newfilm@darkwebonline.com. 

So obviously, we are going to be busy rebuilding our site over the never few months. We'll let you know via Twitter and Facebook of changes and updates, but in the meantime, enjoy what the site still has to offer, and help us stay afloat by buying from us on ebay or even donating via paypal at the bottom of our homepage! Thanks, and enjoy! - W.S. Sharpe