So I started watching Channel Zero with the fourth season, and I've loved it ever since. I grieve the notion that it's been cancelled. How can American Horror Story outlive something as genius as this show? I recently got the complete series boxed set in the mail, and I've been burning through it for a week, now.
The first season of this creepypasta-semi-adaptive show is about my first-ever creepypasta, Candle Cove. I read it on an app in my high school years, and loved the story so much that I then read it out-loud to my cousin. It's still an eerie story, to this day. Each season adapts these random, famous creepypasta horror stories from the internet into a six-episode season, always with a brand new cast.
This season was focused around a fellow named Mike Painter (a name from the original story, I'm proud to say) going to his childhood home area, after many years, and looking into a case of five child murders, back when he was a kid in the 80s. At the time of those murders, there was also a tv show for kids appearing on television, titled Candle Cove. When the murders stopped, so did the show. Most people don't remember it, unless they were the same age as mike. He begins to wonder whether there may be a correlation between the two.
The acting was fantastic, the writing and pacing were exceptional, and the music was beyond eerie. There's an atmosphere to every single season of this show, and it always looms over each episode. There's many twists and surprises. The genius with this show is the shortness of each season; they're so dense with so many details that matter, every second feels important.
There's so much to take in from this incredible show. I would argue it's also one of the most well-directed anything, ever. The camerawork is very good here, as is the cinematography, but it improves significantly in the second season.
I think my favorite element of this first season was the Candle Cove puppets that haunt Mike's past. When they are incorporated, they are horrifically stunning.
Again: check it out, if you tend to find yourself disappointed by most modern horror things. This show is incredible.
Kris Straub, the author of the original Candle Cove creepypasta story, should be very proud of what they've done with his tale.
The first season of this creepypasta-semi-adaptive show is about my first-ever creepypasta, Candle Cove. I read it on an app in my high school years, and loved the story so much that I then read it out-loud to my cousin. It's still an eerie story, to this day. Each season adapts these random, famous creepypasta horror stories from the internet into a six-episode season, always with a brand new cast.
This season was focused around a fellow named Mike Painter (a name from the original story, I'm proud to say) going to his childhood home area, after many years, and looking into a case of five child murders, back when he was a kid in the 80s. At the time of those murders, there was also a tv show for kids appearing on television, titled Candle Cove. When the murders stopped, so did the show. Most people don't remember it, unless they were the same age as mike. He begins to wonder whether there may be a correlation between the two.
The acting was fantastic, the writing and pacing were exceptional, and the music was beyond eerie. There's an atmosphere to every single season of this show, and it always looms over each episode. There's many twists and surprises. The genius with this show is the shortness of each season; they're so dense with so many details that matter, every second feels important.
There's so much to take in from this incredible show. I would argue it's also one of the most well-directed anything, ever. The camerawork is very good here, as is the cinematography, but it improves significantly in the second season.
I think my favorite element of this first season was the Candle Cove puppets that haunt Mike's past. When they are incorporated, they are horrifically stunning.
Again: check it out, if you tend to find yourself disappointed by most modern horror things. This show is incredible.
Kris Straub, the author of the original Candle Cove creepypasta story, should be very proud of what they've done with his tale.
