I don’t really know what the official status of FEARnet is as a cable network, I only know that I get it with the On Demand portion of my cable package and only recently have they been ramping up and becoming an actual genre force for cable where The Horror Channel originally intended to go. They’re not bad but their movie line up is still lacking in large places. This, however, is pretty good stuff.
The 66.6 Second Film Festival, hosted at their website by Powerman 5000 frontman (and Rob Zombie sibling) Spider, takes your favorite flicks (and some real horror movie dogs) and sums them up in 66.6 seconds. Already simplistic plots are oversimplified and the end result is often pretty funny, pretty much stripping bare just how crappy Friday the 13th Part 6 actually is. I’d give you a taste right here on the ol’ blog but it would seem that you can’t embed the player, so head over to their website and see all of them.
October 22, 2008 9:23 pm
Comcast owns FearNet. I wish it was better than it was but I’ll take whatever horror I can get once October is past and every other cable channel completely forgets about the genre. I have a friend who freelanced there for a bit and he said it’s a shame because they didn’t really have a clue what they were doing, but that was a year or two ago. From what I’ve read they’re also planning to start a FearNet-esque action movie channel.