For over a century now, people have been producing horror films intended to shock, disgust, and terrify their audiences, and, recently, online stories have spread with the intention of inciting fear as well. To the lovers of all things petrifying, this new site is exciting, and it can only bring delight for them to hear that some of the more popular tales are being produced as television shows.

On October 11^th, 2016, writer, showrunner, and executive producer, Nick Antosca, released the premiere of the first season of Channel Zero, entitled Candle Cove, on SyFy. The show is based off a fairly popular online story, about a disturbing TV show that many people had watched as kids, only to reveal that the show never existed at all and each of the people who saw it had seemingly sat in front of a static-filled screen each day.

Candle Cove has a gripping plot that focuses on Mike Painter, a child psychologist with a mysterious past. The story begins with Mike’s return to his hometown, Iron Hill, Ohio; the town he abandoned thirty years previous after an unknown killer murdered five children, one of whom was his twin brother, Eddie. Unfortunately, it seems that the past is doomed to repeat itself, as kids go missing, only to reappear with violent tendencies and knowledge of a TV show called Candle Cove. Mike struggles to find the source of this show, certain that it is behind the murders and disappearances, while also connecting with his childhood friend, Jessica Yolen, the only one who seems to be willing to listen to Mike’s theories. Things go from bad to worse when Mike’s ten-year-old daughter, Lily, arrives in Iron Hill, possessed by the ghost of his twin brother and holding a suspicious amount of information about what is happening. This breathtaking tale reaches a stunning conclusion when Mike confronts the creator of Candle Cove, completing this narrative with a shocking gamble over a body, a life, and a card game.

Channel Zero returned on September 20^th, 2017, with the first episode of its second season, No-End House, and it appears to be living up to the high standards set by the previous season. No-End House is based on an online story about a supernatural haunted house with a series of rooms that progressively get more frightening the farther you go.

This season is centered on a group of four friends who decide to brave the infamous No-End House in the hopes of gaining a prize upon reaching the final room. They soon discover that this house is not what it seems, encountering personal and disturbing horrors in each room, but the friends, Margot, Jules, J.D., and Seth, struggle to push through, only to become separated and forced to face their own fears. Soon, they all decide to leave the house, unable to cope with what they have seen. Unfortunately, the House is not ready to let them go, and they wind up in a pocket dimension that mirrors the real world. Returning home does not seem to be the only decision, and, when the friends split up, the focus of the show turns to Margot, as she fights to hold onto what is real when she encounters a copy of her father, who committed suicide last year. In a startling revelation, Margot and Jules discover that all of the copies in the false world feed off the memories of those who knew them, draining them of their lives, and the Father is no exception. Suspiciously, Seth seems to already possess this knowledge, avoiding the copies with ease, and J.D. never gets the chance to find out, as he is killed and replaced by his copy. Dylan, a previous survivor of the House, lands in this false world as well, searching for his missing wife and eventually forming an alliance with the group in their attempts to return to the real world, hopefully without any of the copies following them. Little do the girls know, their group has already been infiltrated by the enemy.