"A Slice of Decent, Properly Scary TV"
Presumably aping the format of AMERICAN HORROR STORY, where every series will feature a different, serialised story, season one of Creepypasta-inspired CHANNEL ZERO arrives on UK Blu-ray and DVD courtesy of Second Sight.
Child psychologist Mike Painter (Paul Schneider) returns to the home of his birth where, in 1988, his twin brother vanished amidst a number of disappearances of children of similar age. He becomes increasingly convinced that the occurrences were linked to an obscure children's television show called Candle Cove.
Child psychologist Mike Painter (Paul Schneider) returns to the home of his birth where, in 1988, his twin brother vanished amidst a number of disappearances of children of similar age. He becomes increasingly convinced that the occurrences were linked to an obscure children's television show called Candle Cove.
Candle Cove was broadcast only once, was impossible to record, and, we are told, made it onto TV 'under regular broadcast frequencies' in a VIDEODROME kind of way. Now it seems Candle Cove is being broadcast again but only children are seeing it, and disappearing again.
Meanwhile, Mike has problems of his own, and may well be a more unreliable narrator / leading character than we've realised. It turns out he's only just been released from a psychiatric ward, and the bizarre opening bit to episode one makes you wonder from the off how much of what he claims is just inside his own head.
Starting off with a very Stephen King feel and quickly coming up with stuff that would scare the likes of Ramsey Campbell, CHANNEL ZERO is a far more accomplished, intriguing, and downright scary television series than AMERICAN HORROR STORY. That thing depicted on the DVD cover at the top there is made entirely of children's teeth, which it eats, and there are plenty of other nasties in here to give you some delicious, TV-inspired nightmares as well.
Second Sight's two disc set has all six episodes from Season One, plus deleted scenes and an interview with series creator Nick Antosca.
For those unfamiliar with the concept, 'Creepypasta' is essentially abbreviated slang for 'creepy copy and paste' and describes a collection of scary stories and images put up on the internet and intended to be shared and developed by others without the constrictions of copyright. CHANNEL ZERO: CANDLE COVE has done a fine job of adapting this particular Creepypasta idea to television. It has met with generally good to excellent reviews and has done well enough that the second season, NO END HOUSE is being broadcast right now. It's all well worth catching up with if you fancy some scary TV.
CHANNEL ZERO: CANDLE COVE is out on Blu-ray and DVD from Second Sight on Monday 30th October 2017
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