# Are you anticipating the Horror Channel?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-anticipating-the-horror-channel/262049
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [August 29, 2004, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-anticipating-the-horror-channel/262049 "2004-08-29T03:40:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2004, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-anticipating-the-horror-channel/262049/1 "2004-08-29T03:40:14Z")
[http://www.horrorchannel.com/](http://www.horrorchannel.com/)
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.
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2004, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-anticipating-the-horror-channel/262049/2 "2004-08-29T03:48:55Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2004, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-anticipating-the-horror-channel/262049/3 "2004-08-29T03:54:32Z")
They have a banner that says the movies will be uncut.
This channel sounds cool.
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### Author:  [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2004, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-anticipating-the-horror-channel/262049/4 "2004-08-29T05:20:29Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2004, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-anticipating-the-horror-channel/262049/5 "2004-08-29T05:25:38Z")
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](http://imdb.com/title/tt0068622/) and [Sssssss](http://imdb.com/title/tt0070622/), two gloriously bad movies that will now have a greater chance to see the light of day once again, with such a channel.
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### Author:  [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2004, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-anticipating-the-horror-channel/262049/6 "2004-08-29T05:36:09Z")
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!!!
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### Author:  [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2004, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-anticipating-the-horror-channel/262049/7 "2004-08-29T05:37:54Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2004, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-anticipating-the-horror-channel/262049/8 "2004-08-29T06:14:55Z")
I thought we already had a [horror channel](http://www.foxnews.com/).
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### Author:  [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2004, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-anticipating-the-horror-channel/262049/9 "2004-08-29T19:16:04Z")
> [@lissener](#):
>
> 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](http://imdb.com/title/tt0068622/) and [Sssssss](http://imdb.com/title/tt0070622/), two gloriously bad movies that will now have a greater chance to see the light of day once again, with such a 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.
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### Author:  [@Theios](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Theios)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2004, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-anticipating-the-horror-channel/262049/10 "2004-08-29T19:39:42Z")
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!
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### Author:  [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2004, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-anticipating-the-horror-channel/262049/11 "2004-08-29T19:50:05Z")
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
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### Author:  [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2004, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-anticipating-the-horror-channel/262049/12 "2004-08-29T19:58:47Z")
Yes; if they ran it like TCM we’d have a great resource on our hands.
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### Author:  [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2004, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-anticipating-the-horror-channel/262049/13 "2004-08-29T20:05:57Z")
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.)
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### Author:  [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2004, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-anticipating-the-horror-channel/262049/14 "2004-08-29T20:13:29Z")
> [@The Scrivener](#):
>
> German Abstract Expressionism (Murnau, Lang, etc.)
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.
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### Author:  [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2004, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-anticipating-the-horror-channel/262049/15 "2004-08-29T20:13:31Z")
Up here in Canada we’ve had a horror channel ([Scream](http://www.screamtelevision.ca/)) 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](http://www.screamtelevision.ca/hosts.asp) 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.
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### Author:  [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2004, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-anticipating-the-horror-channel/262049/16 "2004-08-29T20:22:44Z")
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. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2004, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-anticipating-the-horror-channel/262049/17 "2004-08-30T02:45:25Z")
> [@DocCathode](#):
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> I didn’t think that much German Expressionism survived.
[Faust](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0016847/combined)
[Genuine](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0011221/combined)
[The Hands of Orlac](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0015202/combined)
[The Student of Prague](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0003419/combined) (1913) (granted, it’s not expressionist)
[The Student of Prague](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0017438/combined) (1926)
[Unheimliche Geschichten](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0010821/combined) (Weird Tales)
[Waxworks](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0014586/combined)
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### Author:  [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2004, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-anticipating-the-horror-channel/262049/18 "2004-08-30T02:46:35Z")
> [@Otto](#):
>
> I thought we already had a [horror channel](http://www.foxnews.com/).
😕
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2004, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-anticipating-the-horror-channel/262049/19 "2004-08-30T03:10:53Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2004, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-anticipating-the-horror-channel/262049/20 "2004-08-30T03:34:58Z")
> [@Otto](#):
>
> I thought we already had a [horror channel](http://www.foxnews.com/).
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**.
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