Why This Site Exists
Because the web used to be fun — weird, personal, made by people who just loved something and wanted to share it. This little shrine is an attempt to bring a piece of that back.
Remember when a website was someone’s passion project instead of a feed engineered to keep you scrolling? When you’d stumble onto a fan page at 1 a.m. — hand-built, a little janky, glowing with obvious love — and leave by clicking a webring link to the next strange corner of the internet?
That web still matters. The Living Dead Archive is built in that spirit: a single film, celebrated properly, on a page that exists to delight a human being — not to harvest one.
- People first. This page is made for visitors, not advertisers or algorithms.
- Fun over funnels. No pop-ups, no “sign up to continue,” no dark patterns. Just a movie, a flickering CRT, and a guestbook.
- No tracking, no ads. We don’t follow you around. (See our privacy policy — it’s refreshingly short.)
- Culture should be shared. This film belongs to everyone now, and so it should be freely watchable by everyone.
- Own what you love. Streaming is renting — licenses vanish, films get edited or deleted. We champion physical media and the boutique labels keeping film preservation alive, because the only way to truly own a movie is to hold it in your hands.
- The independent web is worth saving. Small, weird, hand-made sites are the soul of the internet. We’d like more of them.
This site is a member of The Old Web Project — a small, growing webring of independent, lovingly-made sites trying to revive the spirit of the early web: people making things for the joy of it, and linking to each other instead of competing for clicks.
Hop the ring. Get lost on purpose. Find something a human made.