Comcast To Launch Horror Network

Techies, get ready to be scared out of your wits.

On Halloween, Comcast Corp., in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment and Lionsgate, will unveil a horror-movie network called FearNet. Fans will be able to watch movies through Comcast’s video-on-demand service and on the Web at FearNet.com, where they can blog about, search and tag the spooky flicks. Cell phone users will get free ringtones and wallpaper and eventually be able to watch video clips.

“FearNet shows how broadband Internet interplays with video on demand,” said Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, in an interview with The Associated Press. “We’ll see more of that blurring of the line between TV and the computer.”

Sony and Lionsgate, the independent studio behind Oscar-winner “Crash,” will contribute their storehouse of 1,000 horror movies. [Source: AP via Forbes]

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