Comcast caters to horror fans
Slasher film fans hold onto your heads, Comcast has created a Web site and video-on-demand channel that caters to fans of horror films.
The site called FearNet.com launched appropriately on Tuesday??Halloween. There's no question the horror genre is hot with Hollywood blockbuster movies such as "Saw III" topping box office sales.
FearNet offers movie titles and other content from Sony and Lionsgate on the Internet as well as through its video-on-demand service. The list of movies includes famous slasher titles such as "Halloween" and classic scary movies, such as "Carrie", as well as suspense thrillers like "Jagged Edge".
Registered users or "victims", as FearNet calls them, are also able to buy or rent movies on the site and download them onto their computers using the video download service Guba. Titles range in price from $0.99 to $9.99. They can also buy ringtones and wall papers for their mobile phones. FearNet also has developed a user community that allows fans to chat in open forums, create Web pages and post pictures. Eventually, they'll allow fans to post their own short videos.
Marguerite Reardon has been a CNET News reporter since 2004, covering cell phone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate, as well as the ongoing consolidation of the phone companies. E-mail Maggie.
