Most people, whether they admit it or not, love nothing better than to curl up in their living room in front of the TV and watch a good horror movie. Who hasn’t looked forward to Halloween so they could call their friends over, pop a huge bowl of popcorn and just sit back and enjoy a Horror film festival. Yet, suprisingly enough enough if you ask most people their favorite Horror movie, it isn’t always the big budget productions that make the list, it’s the movies that cost reletively little to make but made such an impact that it has found it’s place in movie history. 

Suprisingly enough if you look back through the years at some of the more classic Horror movies, you’ll find that these movies, at the time, were considered to be B list movies and were shot with a very small budget. Some of these movies were even shot with small movie cameras, or what we consider now to be pocket camcorders. Movies such as Halloween and Friday the 13th have become legendary, yet at the time of their releases they were considered B list and were filmed with a very small budget.

When many people consider the idea of filming a movie they believe that they need a big, expensive camera. This is not always true, many of the newer movies have adopted a trend of filming from a first person perspective using persoanl or pocket camcorders. These movies have done relatively well because because the story they were working from was an excellent one and using a pocket camcorder actually added to the atmosphere of the piece. Movies such as Blair Witch Project, Diary of the Dead and even the recent Quarantine, were all filmed using a smaller camera such as a pocket camcorder.