I think it’s about time. There are channels for everything else. The anticipated on air date in halloween this year. I do hope it makes it.
I also hope my cable provider carries it.
Me too! There used to be a FAQ on the site that said they’ll even show the flicks uncut and unedited, but I don’t see that anymore. Hope that’s still true.
They have a banner that says the movies will be uncut.
This channel sounds cool.
Uncut would be great, but I don’t think I like the idea. I love horror movies, but this seems like a further narrowing of a target market, which means it becomes less likely that you’ll find something on television that isn’t exactly what you expected. I, personally, discovered a lot of great movies not because I sought them out, but because I said, “Oh, what the hell,” and watched them anyway.
Sorry, that makes no sense to me. How many hundreds of thousands of movies are out there? The more movie channels you have, the more likely some of those great non-recent movies will be available again. I personally can’t wait to see Gargoyles and Sssssss, two gloriously bad movies that will now have a greater chance to see the light of day once again, with such a channel.
Sci-Fi Channel used to be classic & new SciFi & classic horror. then it added some new sci-fi-ish horror & dropped classic horror & a lot of classic sci-fi in favor of its own stuff.
I love the idea of a Horror Channel & hopes it keeps a good proportion between classic & new.
I want one weekly silent!!!
The first thing it airs SHOULD be the 1910 Edison FRANKENSTEIN. It should be to the Horror Channel what “Video Killed the Radio Star” was to MTV.
I thought we already had a horror channel.
OTTOMH
“Nunh a tyah, nunh a tyah.”
and
“A winged one! A breeder!”
It’s times like these that I wish I could afford cable.
SemiHijack
Zacherle (nee Roland of Shock Theatre) just got his own comic book. It’s a classic EC horror anthology. Ah, Zacherle he’s like a nice undead uncle.
I hope it makes it. I’ve always said that I’d pay decent coin for cable if they’d only offer me a 24x7 channel dedicated to each of the following themes…
Horror (the cheeser, the better)
Kung-Fu (cheese score points here too)
War movies
Westerns
I know that Starz has a Western channel, and The History Channel almost counts as a war channel. But damnit, I needs me some cheesy Horror and Kung-Fu!
I hope they’ll be eclectic in their programming, exploring the full variety of horror films, past and present, domestic and international. Here’s a few thematic blocks I’d like to see:
German Abstract Expressionism (Murnau, Lang, etc.)
Latin American Horror
Atom-Age Creatures Month (by week: U.S., British, Japanese, and miscellaneous)
Soviet/Iron Curtain
Japanese Film & Anime
Ciao, Ciao! ('60’s, 70’s Italian Horror)
Classic Vampires
Modern (or Postmodern) Vampires (Martyn, Love at First Bite, etc.)
Haunted Houses
Beyond Haunted Houses (ex.: Alien; Ghost Ship)
Horror and Revenge (ex.: The Virgin Spring)
Sex = Death (teen slashers in which only the virgins survive)
Anthology Horror Weekend (ex: Trilogy of Terror; Cat’s Eye)
Six Days of 666
Apocalypse
Alien Invasions
Historical Epochs: up to the Dark Ages; Middle Ages/Renaissance; Age of Exploration; 18th Century; 1960’s Counterculture & Hippies, etc.
Alternative History (Hitler’s Brain, The Boys From Brazil, etc.)
Twisted DNA: human/non-human fusion
Psychos
Subversion From Within (in which something is taking over minds or bodies)
Don’t Go There (strangers fall victim to murderous village or group)
Under Siege (village or town assaulted from without)
Bela Lugosi
William Castle
Roger Corman
British Invasion (featuring Peter Cushing/Christopher Lee/Ingrid Pitt)
Master of the Uncanny: Roman Polanski
Yes; if they ran it like TCM we’d have a great resource on our hands.
A few more:
Version 2.0 – original film, followed by a remake (or two)
School’s a Killer (horror set in schools, boarding schools, universities)
Mother Nature (eco-terror: flora and fauna turning against humanity and global warming scenarios)
Cannibalism
It Really Happened (documentaries on stuff like the Donner Party, and Amazon primitiveness in Keep the River On Your Right – although both of these examples deal with cannibalism, but I digress.)
I didn’t think that much German Expressionism survived. OTTOMH
Cabinet Of Caligari
Der Golem (there were several remakes of this by various German Expressionists)
Nosferatu
What I’d like to see
Progressions- little blocks that trace how a character, image, or legend evolved in films. As you mentioned, the cinematic vampire has gone from classical, to modern, to post modern.
Up here in Canada we’ve had a horror channel (Scream) for nigh-on two years.
It’s pretty damn good, but it didn’t take it long to betray its format. In what universe is Robocop horror (or even suspense or thriller)? Or worse - HIGHLANDER, which they’re playing next week. Good movies, both, but SF/Fantasy Action does not count as Horror/Suspense/Thriller. Ray Bradbury Theater is an equally ‘huh?’ choice (although at least a couple episodes count) - most of the series at least consistantly have on-format trappings, though, at least.
Still, there’s only a few missteps like those, and it shows a lot of great (and not so great) horror/suspense flicks I’d have never seen, and some more famous ones I enjoy seeing. And Jane Meikle is one of my favourite on-air hosts (The Nancy character, in particular) on any channel.
If The Horror Channel can catch the same sort of flavour as the good parts of Scream, while avoiding the missteps, you’ll have a damn good channel on your hands, there.
Lang’s M, about a pedophile serial killer, starring Peter Lorre. I’m no expert, but I bet there’s quite a few obscure films still preserved, and not all by the Big Two names, either. 
Faust
Genuine
The Hands of Orlac
The Student of Prague (1913) (granted, it’s not expressionist)
The Student of Prague (1926)
Unheimliche Geschichten (Weird Tales)
Waxworks
The channel will garner enough interest to be picked up by nearly every major cable/satellite provider. It will become wildly popular. It will be taken over by network progamming weasels who will destroy its essence.
This will spawn several dozen “Man, the Horror Channel really sucks ass” Pit threads.
Only when they’re interviewing a defense attorney.
I had no idea there was gonna be a Horror Channel. Knowing my suck-ass cable company (Incontinent Communications) I may have to start re-programming my sat…er, I may hve to renew my satellite subscription. Thanks for the info, Reeder.