Channel Zero (2016 series)
Summary
- Candle Cove (2016) - A child psychologist returns to his small town home to investigate the mysterious disappearance of his twin brother and a slew of other children in the 1980s, and how it is connected to a bizarre local children's television show that aired at the same time.
- The No-End House (2017) - A young woman visits the No-End House, a bizarre house of horrors that consists of a series of increasingly disturbing rooms. When she returns home, Margot realizes everything has changed.
Details
- Release Date: 2016-present
- Country/Language: US, English
- Genres/Technical: Drama, Horror, Mystery, urban legend and creepypasta
- Setting: 1980s and Modern USA
- Runtime: (generally formatted for a 1-hour US commercial television slot)
- Starring: Abigail Pniowsky, Keenan Lehmann, Amy Forsyth
- Creator: Nick Antosca
- Producer/Production Co: Universal Cable Productions
- View Trailer: (2016), (2017)
- Film Website: (link)
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- IMDB Page: (link)
Ratings
MPAA Ratings
- Rated: (not rated) (perhaps equivalent to a TV-PG for Violence, and occasional mild Profanity and Adult Content)
Tentacle Ratings
A rough measure of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:
- Ss___ (One and a Half Tentacles: Barely Lovecraftian; vaguely similar in tone)
The first season had at least a few elements of paranoid cosmic horror. The "creepypasta" genre the series anthologizes is, arguably, a modern descendant of the sort of weird pulp horror that Lovecraft helped to create, and in general "creepypasta" borrows and updates a lot of the conventions of pulp horror into a modern, mobile-technology-driven, typically suburban middle-class setting.
Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.
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Synopsis (SPOILERS)
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- Candle Cove (2016) - A child psychologist returns to his small town home to investigate the mysterious disappearance of his twin brother and a slew of other children in the 1980s, and how it is connected to a bizarre local children's television show that aired at the same time.
- The No-End House (2017) - A young woman visits the No-End House, a bizarre house of horrors that consists of a series of increasingly disturbing rooms. When she returns home, Margot realizes everything has changed.
Notes
Comments, Trivia, Dedication
- film: the premise of the Channel Zero: No-End House 2017 season appears to be a variation on that from the (not very Lovecraftian) 2012 film Toad Road (perhaps they were based on the same urban legend/creepypasta?)
Associated Mythos Elements
- TO DO
- location: Dreamlands
- race: "Tooth Monster", bizarre puppets, and other assorted and off-beat monsters
Keeper Notes
- The investigators are called in to investigate a series of bizarre crimes involving children claiming to be acting under the influence of sinister "invisible friends" and a disturbing "children's" television program that doesn't seem to exist which plays over the static of a television station that isn't even on the air.
