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Channel Zero
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Channel Zero is a SyFy original horror anthology series. Channel Zero presents six-episode seasons that are each based on a creepypasta.The first such season began airing in October of 2016 with the creepypasta Candle Cove as its basis. In Channel Zero's version of the story, famous child psychologist Mike Painter begins having nightmares about a show he watched on television as a child. The show had a brief run of only two months, but these two months also saw a series of bizarre and disturbing events befall the young Mike which culminated in the abduction and murder of his brother and several other local children. Seeking answers, he returns to his hometown of Iron Hill only to discover that the show he remembers, Candle Cove, has returned to the airwaves and a new generation of children are seeing it for the first time...The second season, based on the creepypasta "The No-End House", began airing in September 2017. Margot Sleator, a young woman still dealing with the recent death of her father, and a group of her friends attend the No-End House, a roving "art exhibit" containing bizarre and frightening imagery within its rooms. And as Margot and her friends will soon discover, there is so much more to the No-End House than a mere haunted house exhibit.The third season, based on Kerry Hammond’s "Search and Rescue Woods" creepypasta tale, the Butcher’s Block installment tells the story of a young woman named Alice Woods, who moves to a new city and learns about a series of disappearances that may be connected to a baffling rumor about mysterious staircases in the city’s worst neighborhoods. With help from her sister Zoe, she discovers that something is preying on the city’s residents. It began airing in early 2018.The fourth season, based on the story "I Found a Hidden Door in my cellar, and I think I made a huge mistake," began airing in late 2018. The Dream Door installment follows Tom Hodgson and his wife, Jillian, seemingly happy newlyweds who hide dark secrets from one another. When one of them discovers a hidden door in the basement of their new home, they unleash a dark force that threatens their marriage - and their lives.Season One stars Paul Schneider, Fiona Shaw, Luisa D'Oliveira, Natalie Brown, Shaun Benson, Luca Villacis, Abigail Pniowsky and Marina Stephenson Kerr.Season Two stars Amy Forsyth, Aisha Dee, Jeff Ward, Seamus Patterson, Sebastian Pigott, Jess Salgueiro, Melanie Nicholls-King and John Carroll Lynch.Season Three stars Olivia Luccardi, Holland Roden, Rutger Hauer, Brandon Scott and Krisha FairchildSeason Four stars Brandon Scott, Maria Sten, Barbara Crampton, Steven Robertson, and Steven Weber.On January 16 2019, the show was officially cancelled after four seasons and 24 episodes.Not to be confused with the owner of Canadian television stations and specialty services. | |
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A Form You Are Comfortable With | |
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A Form You Are Comfortable With: Implied to be this with Jawbone, as while that's his name in the television show, Eddie and his nightmare appearances refer to him as "Skin-Taker". This is confirmed in the finale, when his true form is shown in Eddie's realm, and Eddie says that "Skin-Taker" is his real name. | |
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Fair Cop | |
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Fair Cop: Officer Welch. | |
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Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl | |
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Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: One form that Alice's schizophrenia takes is a woman with long hair clad entirely in black, who walks on all fours. | |
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The Call Knows Where You Live | |
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The Call Knows Where You Live: Margot and Jules first become aware of the House by the mysterious videos that it sends to their phones. | |
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Misanthrope Supreme | |
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Misanthrope Supreme: Seth is a self-described misanthrope, and goes on a rant in his last scene about how disgusted he is with humans and their memories, so he lures them into the No-End House to strip them away. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: The season is filled with it. Special mention goes to the scene where Ian helps Jill destroy Pretzel Jack. He holds her hand tightly and tells Jillian to "crush" Pretzel Jack, which leaves her panting for breath and results in Pretzel Jack exploding into a cloud of white liquid. Which takes on a sinister form when Ian's powers are manifested alongside a very clear sadistic murderous streak and a possessive desire for Jill. A lot of screaming is involved along with a very disturbing affinity for decidedly phallic electric saws. | |
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Heel–Face Door-Slam | |
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Heel–Face Door-Slam: Chief Vanczyk, after an implied My God, What Have I Done? moment, tries to make up for almost killing his son by saving him and Louise from Aldous. Despite this, Officer Luke still shoots him after he tries to get him to leave Garrett. | |
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Genre Shift | |
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Genre Shift: Starts out as a straight horror/slasher. It almost becomes a superhero show by the end, with a significant subplot about Jill learning to control her powers and a final showdown between the good guys and a similarly powered bad guy. | |
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Religion of Evil | |
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Religion of Evil: The Peaches are hinted to be part of one, given how their patriarch is described as a "fundamentalist religious nut" and Nathan's off-handed remark about human sacrifices. Turns out they worship the "Pestilent God," who demands a sacrifice of a child ever now and then as the Peaches' "rent." | |
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Sibling Rivalry | |
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Sibling Rivalry: Aldous has a fairly one-sided one with Robert. It doesn't help that he appears to be The Unfavorite. | |
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Daddy's Girl | |
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Daddy's Girl: While Margot and her mother seem to get on fine, it is made very clear that the bond she and her father shared was very deep and very special. | |
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The Blank | |
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The Blank: Jawbone/Skin-Taker looks like a faceless humanoid in a pirate suit when it appears in the real world. | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Margot and Jules have this vibe, although it's implied that they have drifted apart somewhat in the wake of Margot's father's death. | |
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Papa Wolf | |
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Papa Wolf: Both the Police Chief and Mike are this way when Katie goes missing. Mike, despite being scared on seeing a strange figure in the woods, faces it to save Katie and get her to safety. | |
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Bloodier and Gorier | |
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Bloodier and Gorier: This season has cannibalism, self mutilation, evisceration and lobotomy. Bon appétit! | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy: Alpha JD believes himself to be the kind of creature that slays the person he is based on and then takes over his life. This dooms him, because his purpose was supposed to be to Mind Rape his creator. He literally cannot live without the real JD and begins to deteriorate almost as soon as the latter is gone. | |
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Adaptational Villainy | |
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Adaptational Villainy: Candle Cove itself. The show in the original Creepypasta was just creepy and mysterious without causing harm to anyone apart from nightmares. In Channel Zero Mike theorizes correctly that Candle Cove appears on television around the same time child murders happen. | |
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Taxidermy Is Creepy | |
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Taxidermy Is Creepy: Played with. Louise's taxidermy hobby is creepy, and she tends to talk to the animals she's preserving while sewing them up and posing them, but she's ultimately not a bad person, just an eccentric one. | |
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The Tooth Hurts | |
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The Tooth Hurts: Abducted children have their teeth extracted and seemingly absorbed into the Tooth Child. Episode 3 shows they removed the teeth themselves under mind control as a "toll" for "entering Candle Cove" (via suicide). In Episode 5, Mike starts growing an extra tooth (the only way to tell him and Eddie apart) as a prelude to becoming Eddie's avatar. To try and stop this, he rips the tooth out with pliers. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: The Butcher's Block neighborhood is totally run down, there's no money for schools or mental health, there's crazy homeless people everywhere... oh yeah, and there's a group of inhuman cannibals hiding in a nearby park which abducts and kills people. | |
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Good Is Not Soft | |
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Good Is Not Soft: Pretty much all of Luke's family and co-workers mistake his unwillingness to accept injustice as being "overly sensitive", and tell him he needs to get over it. By the end, he's killed multiple members of the Peach family, survived a Slashed Throat, and shot his own father when it was made clear that he would rather save his own skin and let the Peaches keep preying on people than fight them. | |
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I'm a Humanitarian | |
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I'm a Humanitarian: The Peach family and associates. | |
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Not Brainwashed | |
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Not Brainwashed: Mike assumed his brother Eddie who killed the children was acting under the evil force of Candle Cove. In episode 5, it's revealed Eddie was not possessed; he really is the evil force of Candle Cove. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: The bootlegging tunnels under the town which Louise's basement has an entrance to, is used in the finale to escape from the attacking Peaches. | |
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Adaptation Expansion | |
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Adaptation Expansion: The premise of the show, taking notoriously brief internet short stories and expanding them into several hours' worth of television. | |
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In Medias Res | |
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In Medias Res: Mike sleepwalks, meaning he sometimes doesn't remember how he got where he is. | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: Jill's psychiatrist suggests that the space behind the door could just be a wine cellar. In the original story, the couple originally used the basement as a wine cellar, before discovering the hidden door while trying to renovate it. | |
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Shoot the Shaggy Dog | |
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Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Dylan's mission to rescue Lacey from the No-End House ends up getting them both killed. | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Vanessa, the new-age spa therapist, who uses a hidden camera to spy on her client Tom and fantasize about him. She gets a quick dispatch at the hands of the monster. Applies even more strongly to Ian, who at first seems slightly eccentric, but earnest nevertheless in his desire to help. Then it's revealed that he is secretly Jillian's half-brother and is obsessed with her to the point of using mass murder to get her into his possession. | |
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Offing the Offspring | |
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Offing the Offspring: With little hesitation, Frances Booth allowed Eddie to kill her son. Mike has a vision where he kills his daughter Lilly with a pirate hook. Marla smothers an unconscious Mike in the last episode. However she did it with his consent in order to prevent Eddie from coming back. | |
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Disappeared Dad | |
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Disappeared Dad: Margot's father, John, is deceased as the story begins and she is struggling with the loss. Episode 2 confirms that Jules' father is also gone, although the reason is not explained. | |
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Ax-Crazy | |
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Ax-Crazy: Robert Peach is gleefully crazy and openly cannibalistic. | |
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Cursed with Awesome | |
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Cursed with Awesome: Jillian's power starts off as a curse, since she can't control it and it manifests as a murderous clown that kills people she's angry at. Later on, she's able to manifest a heroic Pretzel Jack to defend her and fight off Tall Boy. | |
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Ominous Visual Glitch | |
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Ominous Visual Glitch: The brief snippets we see of Candle Cove frequently experience "channel overlap" type interference with much less benign imagery. This may have an added creep factor for older viewers who experienced the days of analogue television broadcasting. For those who missed them: when atmospheric conditions are right, broadcasts from far away or on neighboring channels can create strange "overlay" effects on a weak signal as the two images partially combine. Annoying when a ghostly soap opera invades The Price Is Right; disturbing when a surgery scene from a medical drama intrudes on Sesame Street. | |
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Angsty Surviving Twin | |
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Angsty Surviving Twin: Mike Painter, whose twin brother Eddie disappeared in 1988. As it turns out, Eddie was possessed by Candle Cove... so Mike had to kill him. | |
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Adapted Out | |
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Adapted Out: Janice, the (non-puppet) girl from the show is the only Candle Cove character not to appear or be mentioned. That being said, at the end of episode 5, Mike's daughter Lily appears inside the show, perhaps as Shout-Out to the fact that Janice was the only human character on Candle Cove in the original story. | |
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Villainous Incest | |
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Villainous Incest: Ian is implied to have these feelings for Jillian well before he just comes right out and says it. And then he tries to make a Tom proxy to have sex with her. And then they discover that he's made at least one Jill proxy and, well, it's not in good condition... | |
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Murder the Hypotenuse | |
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Murder the Hypotenuse: Ian's plan for Tom. | |
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Face Death with Dignity | |
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Face Death with Dignity: Joseph Peach is resigned to his fate when the Pestilent God destroys him and his family. | |
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The Man Behind the Man | |
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The Man Behind the Man: The first half of the series work to set up Mrs. Booth as the Big Bad. Then it is revealed that Mrs. Booth is actually serving the disembodied Eddie as his Dragon and working to provide him with a new physical body. | |
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Mundane Solution | |
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Mundane Solution: When Mike encounters a ghoulish figure in the woods slashing its arm with a knife sends it running. | |
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NoKillLikeOverKill | |
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No Kill like Overkill: Pretzel Jack keeps stabbing Jason well after it's clear he's already dead. | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle: When Pretzel Jack takes on Tall Boy, the latter gets in one missed swing before getting eviscerated. | |
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Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_3d699462 | |
Channel Zero / int_40cbee83 | type |
Wretched Hive | |
Channel Zero / int_40cbee83 | comment |
Wretched Hive: Butcher's Block, the area around the Peach meat-packing plant, is completely without infrastructure and Alice is warned not to go there alone for good reason. | |
Channel Zero / int_40cbee83 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_40cbee83 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_40cbee83 | |
Channel Zero / int_40cc0c7e | type |
Bittersweet Ending | |
Channel Zero / int_40cc0c7e | comment |
Bittersweet Ending: Lighter than previous installments of Channel Zero, but still not perfect. The Peach family's reign of terror is over. Louise, Luke, Izzy, and Zoe have formed a happy, loving family unit and we see Zoe successfully managing her illness with medication. But Alice is mentally broken by her experience and institutionalized alongside her mother. Also both the Pestilent God and the Meat Servant, and possibly other ancillary members of the Peach family are still out there. | |
Channel Zero / int_40cc0c7e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_40cc0c7e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_40cc0c7e | |
Channel Zero / int_4127eb1 | type |
Shut Up, Hannibal! | |
Channel Zero / int_4127eb1 | comment |
Shut Up, Hannibal!: In the third episode, Luke deals with Robert's taunting of him and his dismissal of the people he's killed by shooting him, repeatedly. Luke does it again to his own father, with a gun no less. After being belittled by his pop for most of his life and nearly being killed by him via Slashed Throat, Luke shoots his father after he tries to get him to leave Garrett rather than face the Peaches. | |
Channel Zero / int_4127eb1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_4127eb1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_4127eb1 | |
Channel Zero / int_41d5f145 | type |
Fluffy the Terrible | |
Channel Zero / int_41d5f145 | comment |
Fluffy the Terrible: The monster of this season is known as "Pretzel Jack". Justified, given that he was named by Jillian when she was a child. | |
Channel Zero / int_41d5f145 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_41d5f145 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_41d5f145 | |
Channel Zero / int_443b78cd | type |
Tranquil Fury | |
Channel Zero / int_443b78cd | comment |
Tranquil Fury: Marla seems entirely too calm when Mike confesses to Eddie's murder. Only when Mike tries to hold on to her does her temper explode and she slashes at him with a knife. | |
Channel Zero / int_443b78cd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_443b78cd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_443b78cd | |
Channel Zero / int_45398e01 | type |
Psycho Knife Nut | |
Channel Zero / int_45398e01 | comment |
Psycho Knife Nut: Seems to be a common trait in the Peach family. Both Robert and Zoe carry a small, ornate switchblade which they do their dirty work with. | |
Channel Zero / int_45398e01 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_45398e01 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_45398e01 | |
Channel Zero / int_474e3977 | type |
You Have Failed Me | |
Channel Zero / int_474e3977 | comment |
You Have Failed Me: The Pestilent God rewards the Peaches for their failure with nothing less than explosive decompression. | |
Channel Zero / int_474e3977 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_474e3977 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_474e3977 | |
Channel Zero / int_47929816 | type |
Lights Off, Somebody Dies | |
Channel Zero / int_47929816 | comment |
Lights Off, Somebody Dies: Just when it seems like Room 2 can't get weirder, the lights go out a second time and not only has the room's inhabitant vanished, but so has the man he was standing next to, leaving only a smear of blood on the floor that leads into a crack at the bottom of the wall. Emulated, although sans any actual murder, in Room 1, where eerily-accurate busts of the young people who've entered the House are set on plinths. The lights go out, then come on again to reveal that all but one (that resembles a girl who immediately chickens out and retreats outside) suddenly appear cracked open, with disturbing red-and-black hands pulling them into pieces. | |
Channel Zero / int_47929816 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_47929816 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_47929816 | |
Channel Zero / int_49f20c6a | type |
Gory Discretion Shot | |
Channel Zero / int_49f20c6a | comment |
Gory Discretion Shot: Both Nathan's death and Robert Peach's decapitation are only shown through Louise's reaction. | |
Channel Zero / int_49f20c6a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_49f20c6a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_49f20c6a | |
Channel Zero / int_4a41c3dc | type |
Invisible to Adults | |
Channel Zero / int_4a41c3dc | comment |
Invisible to Adults: Candle Cove's entire M.O. This creates a Mind Screw for Mike, who remembers it from when he was a child. | |
Channel Zero / int_4a41c3dc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_4a41c3dc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_4a41c3dc | |
Channel Zero / int_4aa98555 | type |
Evil All Along | |
Channel Zero / int_4aa98555 | comment |
Evil All Along: Seth, who has been maintaining his existence in the House by supplying it with a steady stream of victims, up to and including Margot. | |
Channel Zero / int_4aa98555 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_4aa98555 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_4aa98555 | |
Channel Zero / int_4ae690ca | type |
Laughing Mad | |
Channel Zero / int_4ae690ca | comment |
Laughing Mad: Margot suffers from a recurring nightmare about a madman who hides behind a mirror where cackling at her insanely. Guess what's waiting for her in Room 3 of the House... | |
Channel Zero / int_4ae690ca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_4ae690ca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_4ae690ca | |
Channel Zero / int_4d1ac25b | type |
Villains Want Mercy | |
Channel Zero / int_4d1ac25b | comment |
Villains Want Mercy: In the end, Seth tearfully begs Margot not to feed him to the cannibal copies of his family. | |
Channel Zero / int_4d1ac25b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_4d1ac25b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_4d1ac25b | |
Channel Zero / int_4dc13d51 | type |
Grand Romantic Gesture | |
Channel Zero / int_4dc13d51 | comment |
Grand Romantic Gesture: A twisted example. Ian tries to win over Jill by showing her the corpse of her father, who abandoned her as a child. Played much straighter right afterwards, when Ian takes the blame for every murder that's happened so far, when all clues pointed to Jill. | |
Channel Zero / int_4dc13d51 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_4dc13d51 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_4dc13d51 | |
Channel Zero / int_4e7c4536 | type |
Wham Line | |
Channel Zero / int_4e7c4536 | comment |
Wham Line: "Falling apart already?" outs Seth as another monster. | |
Channel Zero / int_4e7c4536 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_4e7c4536 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_4e7c4536 | |
Channel Zero / int_4e7f703c | type |
Wham Shot | |
Channel Zero / int_4e7f703c | comment |
Wham Shot: Episode 3: Eddie mind-controlling Gene into suicide. Episode 5: Mike seeing his daughter on the TV, in Candle Cove. | |
Channel Zero / int_4e7f703c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_4e7f703c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_4e7f703c | |
Channel Zero / int_504a1991 | type |
Body Horror | |
Channel Zero / int_504a1991 | comment |
Body Horror: When the power works, it really, really works. But if the summoner gets even the slightest thing wrong, they'll get a horrific, half-formed version of the creature that they wanted which dies in agony shortly after emerging from its door. This is most tragically seen with the limbless, disfigured infant that Jillian and Tom accidentally create while trying to conceive a baby. | |
Channel Zero / int_504a1991 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_504a1991 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_504a1991 | |
Channel Zero / int_51567188 | type |
Cast from Hit Points | |
Channel Zero / int_51567188 | comment |
Cast from Hit Points: Ian's use of the power leaves him in agony and physically incapacitated, and requires him to ingest massive amounts of calories just so he can barely stay standing. Curiously, Jill does not seem to have this weakness, but then again is not seen using her abilities as indiscriminately as Ian. | |
Channel Zero / int_51567188 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_51567188 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_51567188 | |
Channel Zero / int_51c28ba3 | type |
Non-Action Big Bad | |
Channel Zero / int_51c28ba3 | comment |
Non-Action Big Bad: This season's final villain never gets into combat and probably wouldn't last long if they tried. Instead they rely on proxies to do their dirty work. | |
Channel Zero / int_51c28ba3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_51c28ba3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_51c28ba3 | |
Channel Zero / int_5313c266 | type |
Bookends | |
Channel Zero / int_5313c266 | comment |
Book Ends: The first episode begins and ends with Mike getting a phone call from a mysterious child, asking him to come home. | |
Channel Zero / int_5313c266 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_5313c266 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_5313c266 | |
Channel Zero / int_537dd8fe | type |
Affably Evil | |
Channel Zero / int_537dd8fe | comment |
Affably Evil: The Meat Servant and the Gardener are weird and frightening at best, and their association with the Peaches and the Pestilent God make them shady characters for sure. But they're pleasant enough to actually be around and are the only inhabitants of the Summer House world that are never seen actively harming anyone or even having any interest in doing so. | |
Channel Zero / int_537dd8fe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_537dd8fe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_537dd8fe | |
Channel Zero / int_53f5119f | type |
The Dragon | |
Channel Zero / int_53f5119f | comment |
The Dragon: Mrs. Booth. | |
Channel Zero / int_53f5119f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_53f5119f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_53f5119f | |
Channel Zero / int_5692bfd9 | type |
Human Notepad | |
Channel Zero / int_5692bfd9 | comment |
Human Notepad: The woman introduced at the beginning of the first episode, named Lacey, has carved the words "This isn't real" into the skin of her forearm, as if to remind herself... Unfortunately, it doesn't do her any good, as her fake husband catches up to her and burns it off with his lighter. Dylan has done the same thing. | |
Channel Zero / int_5692bfd9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_5692bfd9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_5692bfd9 | |
Channel Zero / int_581f6468 | type |
Hero of Another Story | |
Channel Zero / int_581f6468 | comment |
Hero of Another Story: Dylan, who has escaped from the House once before, although his wife, Lacey, did not, and has been trying to locate it and her again, up until the moment he meets Margot and her friends. | |
Channel Zero / int_581f6468 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_581f6468 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_581f6468 | |
Channel Zero / int_586624e5 | type |
Genius Loci | |
Channel Zero / int_586624e5 | comment |
Genius Loci: Seth believes that the house is a living organism which draws sustenance through its memory-stealing creations. | |
Channel Zero / int_586624e5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_586624e5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_586624e5 | |
Channel Zero / int_598513bb | type |
Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling | |
Channel Zero / int_598513bb | comment |
Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Initially the season starts off with Alice being the responsible sister and Zoe being the troubled sister. However, as the series progresses, their roles begin to reverse, as Alice willingly joins the Peaches, while Zoe fights back. | |
Channel Zero / int_598513bb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_598513bb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_598513bb | |
Channel Zero / int_59907e4f | type |
Police Are Useless | |
Channel Zero / int_59907e4f | comment |
Police Are Useless: Lampshaded by Ian who tauntingly points out that police would not be able to hold someone who can summon monsters at will. He's right. | |
Channel Zero / int_59907e4f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_59907e4f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_59907e4f | |
Channel Zero / int_5a3b8032 | type |
The Un-Reveal | |
Channel Zero / int_5a3b8032 | comment |
The Unreveal: Perhaps the biggest mystery of the season is just what the creature feeding off Jules actually is. We don't find out. When she confronts it in the finale she wonders that it might be a "psychological tumor" but ultimately decides it doesn't matter what it is. | |
Channel Zero / int_5a3b8032 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_5a3b8032 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_5a3b8032 | |
Channel Zero / int_5b565147 | type |
Meaningful Background Event | |
Channel Zero / int_5b565147 | comment |
Meaningful Background Event: Margot and the others only meet Dylan as they prepare to enter the House. When the masked man appears in the second room, Dylan can be seen in the background, drawing a knife and readying himself for a fight, implying that he either knows or believes the place to be far more than a mere haunted house attraction. Turns out he does; Dylan escaped the house once, and is back to rescue Lacey. | |
Channel Zero / int_5b565147 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_5b565147 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_5b565147 | |
Channel Zero / int_5c5ac0e2 | type |
Really 700 Years Old | |
Channel Zero / int_5c5ac0e2 | comment |
Really 700 Years Old: The Peaches have someone avoided aging in the 60-plus years since they disappeared. | |
Channel Zero / int_5c5ac0e2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_5c5ac0e2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_5c5ac0e2 | |
Channel Zero / int_5caef4ca | type |
Chainsaw Good | |
Channel Zero / int_5caef4ca | comment |
Chainsaw Good: Louise uses what can only be described as a chainsaw-hedge trimmer to cut Robert Peach's head off. | |
Channel Zero / int_5caef4ca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_5caef4ca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_5caef4ca | |
Channel Zero / int_5d5cc3fd | type |
Through the Eyes of Madness | |
Channel Zero / int_5d5cc3fd | comment |
Through the Eyes of Madness: We see the events of the show largely through the eyes of its protagonist, Mike Painter, whom we come to learn has recently suffered a psychotic break and required admittance to a mental health facility. This casts doubt upon the reality of much of what he is seeing. | |
Channel Zero / int_5d5cc3fd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_5d5cc3fd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_5d5cc3fd | |
Channel Zero / int_5fcb9ad1 | type |
Time Skip | |
Channel Zero / int_5fcb9ad1 | comment |
Time Skip: A year passes between the fifth episode and the sixth. | |
Channel Zero / int_5fcb9ad1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_5fcb9ad1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_5fcb9ad1 | |
Channel Zero / int_5fcedca | type |
Big Eater | |
Channel Zero / int_5fcedca | comment |
Big Eater: Ian's use of the power leaves him constantly, ravenously hungry, which he sates with huge fast food meals. The scene where he devours a pile of cheeseburgers borders on Horror Hunger. | |
Channel Zero / int_5fcedca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_5fcedca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_5fcedca | |
Channel Zero / int_605cf3f | type |
Something Only They Would Say | |
Channel Zero / int_605cf3f | comment |
Something Only They Would Say: Averted. When Dylan initially runs into "Lacey", she describes the night they met perfectly — but it's not her. The real Lacey doesn't remember him at all. | |
Channel Zero / int_605cf3f | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_605cf3f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_605cf3f | |
Channel Zero / int_617f0563 | type |
Heel–Face Turn | |
Channel Zero / int_617f0563 | comment |
Heel–Face Turn: Happens to John over the course of the Time Skip, coming to detest the damage being done to Margot and willing to do whatever it takes to stop it. | |
Channel Zero / int_617f0563 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_617f0563 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_617f0563 | |
Channel Zero / int_62434fe2 | type |
Sanity Slippage | |
Channel Zero / int_62434fe2 | comment |
Sanity Slippage: Alice, as the series goes along. | |
Channel Zero / int_62434fe2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_62434fe2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_62434fe2 | |
Channel Zero / int_64070096 | type |
Cowardly Lion | |
Channel Zero / int_64070096 | comment |
Cowardly Lion: Despite being scared on seeing the mysterious figure in the woods, Mike still plunges ahead and faces it to save Katie. | |
Channel Zero / int_64070096 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_64070096 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_64070096 | |
Channel Zero / int_6439de78 | type |
Heroic Sacrifice | |
Channel Zero / int_6439de78 | comment |
Heroic Sacrifice: Mike lets Eddie drag him into Eddie's World, then keeps him distracted from full Grand Theft Me long enough for their mother to Mercy Kill his body, trapping both of the twins there forever. | |
Channel Zero / int_6439de78 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_6439de78 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_6439de78 | |
Channel Zero / int_648fe274 | type |
But for Me, It Was Tuesday | |
Channel Zero / int_648fe274 | comment |
But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Robert doesn't bother to remember the names of the people he's killed, saying that they "don't matter". He seems to have picked this up from his father, whose response when asked if he remembers Louise's brother is a mocking "What did he taste like?" | |
Channel Zero / int_648fe274 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_648fe274 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_648fe274 | |
Channel Zero / int_659ef759 | type |
Implacable Man | |
Channel Zero / int_659ef759 | comment |
Implacable Man: Robert Peach gets shot multiple times and stabbed with a shovel before finally dying for good via chainsaw-hedgetrimmer decapitation. | |
Channel Zero / int_659ef759 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_659ef759 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_659ef759 | |
Channel Zero / int_664bc28f | type |
British Brevity | |
Channel Zero / int_664bc28f | comment |
British Brevity: The show is American, but 6-episode seasons would fit right in across the pond. | |
Channel Zero / int_664bc28f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_664bc28f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_664bc28f | |
Channel Zero / int_6a1c2a6 | type |
Cosmic Horror Story | |
Channel Zero / int_6a1c2a6 | comment |
Cosmic Horror Story: Whatever the House is and wherever it came from, the fact that it contains its own universe pushes the narrative in this direction. | |
Channel Zero / int_6a1c2a6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_6a1c2a6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_6a1c2a6 | |
Channel Zero / int_6b2b3b59 | type |
The Reveal | |
Channel Zero / int_6b2b3b59 | comment |
The Reveal: Several episodes, as the mythology is built up: Episode 2: Mike killed Eddie. Episode 3: The above was because Eddie was possessed by Candle Cove and killing other kids. Also, Mrs. Booth is leading the latest generation of possessed kids. Episode 5: The above was because Booth had a seizure decades ago, and Eddie used his psychic powers to stop it. | |
Channel Zero / int_6b2b3b59 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_6b2b3b59 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_6b2b3b59 | |
Channel Zero / int_6d089995 | type |
The Shrink | |
Channel Zero / int_6d089995 | comment |
The Shrink: Jill's psychiatrist is a Type 2 — he genuinely wants to help her, but fails to realize that the problems she's dealing with aren't just in her head. | |
Channel Zero / int_6d089995 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_6d089995 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_6d089995 | |
Channel Zero / int_6d332aea | type |
Driven to Suicide | |
Channel Zero / int_6d332aea | comment |
Driven to Suicide: In episode 2 we learn that John's death by allergic reaction was no accident. After discovering his allergy to the pills he deliberately took a massive dose that he knew would kill him. In episode 5, it's further explained that he tried to make it look like an accident, so his wife and daughter would be able to claim his life insurance and avoid their financial troubles. | |
Channel Zero / int_6d332aea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_6d332aea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_6d332aea | |
Channel Zero / int_6de71c57 | type |
Disc-One Final Boss | |
Channel Zero / int_6de71c57 | comment |
Disc-One Final Boss: With Ian's help, Jill is able to destroy Pretzel Jack by the fourth episode, but then it is revealed that Ian is the true villain. | |
Channel Zero / int_6de71c57 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_6de71c57 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_6de71c57 | |
Channel Zero / int_6edc54d5 | type |
Here We Go Again! | |
Channel Zero / int_6edc54d5 | comment |
Here We Go Again!: The final scene of the season has Tom and Jill's infant daughter creating her own door. | |
Channel Zero / int_6edc54d5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_6edc54d5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_6edc54d5 | |
Channel Zero / int_6f572188 | type |
Another Dimension | |
Channel Zero / int_6f572188 | comment |
The Peaches live in an Another Dimension of a bizarre "summer home" where it's always daytime, the plants grow human flesh, and the main house is always off in the distance, no matter how far you walk. | |
Channel Zero / int_6f572188 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_6f572188 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_6f572188 | |
Channel Zero / int_6f619fab | type |
Let's Split Up, Gang! | |
Channel Zero / int_6f619fab | comment |
Let's Split Up, Gang!: Enforced by the House itself, when access to the next room is provided by a revolving door with a "One At A Time" sign above it. When Margot goes through it, she's alone in a hallway of her own, and a projected image implies Jules is likewise in a location that's just for her. | |
Channel Zero / int_6f619fab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_6f619fab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_6f619fab | |
Channel Zero / int_6fbe85e6 | type |
Adaptation Personality Change | |
Channel Zero / int_6fbe85e6 | comment |
Adaptation Personality Change: mike_painter65 was a Nice Guy with a touch of nostalgia, who was communicating with users on a forum. Dr. Mike Painter is a troubled psychiatrist with Survivor's Guilt, who has suffered a psychotic break and is convinced that Candle Cove is hurting people in his hometown. | |
Channel Zero / int_6fbe85e6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_6fbe85e6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_6fbe85e6 | |
Channel Zero / int_704d7e91 | type |
No Ontological Inertia | |
Channel Zero / int_704d7e91 | comment |
No Ontological Inertia: When Ian dies, his creations and their doors fade out of existence almost immediately. | |
Channel Zero / int_704d7e91 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_704d7e91 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_704d7e91 | |
Channel Zero / int_71456526 | type |
VictoriousChildhoodFriend | |
Channel Zero / int_71456526 | comment |
Victorious Childhood Friend: Tom and Jillian Hodgson were friends in childhood and start the season happily married. | |
Channel Zero / int_71456526 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_71456526 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_71456526 | |
Channel Zero / int_72246a54 | type |
Game Face | |
Channel Zero / int_72246a54 | comment |
Joseph Peach starts experiencing this when agitated, causing his Game Face to peak through. | |
Channel Zero / int_72246a54 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_72246a54 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_72246a54 | |
Channel Zero / int_7276d0de | type |
Mugging the Monster | |
Channel Zero / int_7276d0de | comment |
Mugging the Monster: Robert's cellmate, who tries to intimidate him prior to getting eaten, and the pushy bill collector who attempts to menace Alice before suffering the same fate. | |
Channel Zero / int_7276d0de | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_7276d0de | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_7276d0de | |
Channel Zero / int_72856b70 | type |
Godzilla Threshold | |
Channel Zero / int_72856b70 | comment |
Godzilla Threshold: Jill spends most of the series going through hell trying to stop Pretzel Jack's rampage, only to be forced to conjure him again in order to stop Ian and his small army of summoned creatures. | |
Channel Zero / int_72856b70 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_72856b70 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_72856b70 | |
Channel Zero / int_72d31973 | type |
Surreal Horror | |
Channel Zero / int_72d31973 | comment |
Surreal Horror: Oh yes. Only escalates as Alice's mental state deteriorates. Special mention to Joseph Peach's "Butcher" form, perhaps the oddest and most terrifying monster in the series thus far. | |
Channel Zero / int_72d31973 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_72d31973 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_72d31973 | |
Channel Zero / int_73418f96 | type |
Psychic-Assisted Suicide | |
Channel Zero / int_73418f96 | comment |
Psychic-Assisted Suicide: Eddie is shown to be able to inflict this on other kids after being possessed by Candle Cove. | |
Channel Zero / int_73418f96 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_73418f96 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_73418f96 | |
Channel Zero / int_7464705c | type |
Arc Words | |
Channel Zero / int_7464705c | comment |
In episode 2, "You have to go inside". Not the line itself, but the fact that it's said by Mike's daughter, showing that Candle Cove's influence isn't limited to the town and its residents. | |
Channel Zero / int_7464705c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_7464705c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_7464705c | |
Channel Zero / int_780a078e | type |
Self-Made Orphan | |
Channel Zero / int_780a078e | comment |
Self-Made Orphan: Ian kills his own father and the way he angrily describes his mother as "too trusting" implies he might have killed her too. | |
Channel Zero / int_780a078e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_780a078e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_780a078e | |
Channel Zero / int_786d6cf6 | type |
You Wouldn't Shoot Me | |
Channel Zero / int_786d6cf6 | comment |
You Wouldn't Shoot Me: In episode 4: a kid correctly guess that Jessica won't shoot him even in self-defense. | |
Channel Zero / int_786d6cf6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_786d6cf6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_786d6cf6 | |
Channel Zero / int_78d103c3 | type |
Exposition of Immortality | |
Channel Zero / int_78d103c3 | comment |
Exposition of Immortality: Alice is looking at her landlady's collected history of the town and sees a picture of the disappeared Peach family, whose patriarch Joseph looks exactly like the man she just met the previous night, despite the fact that he'd be 130 years old by this point. | |
Channel Zero / int_78d103c3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_78d103c3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_78d103c3 | |
Channel Zero / int_7ad0e492 | type |
Imaginary Friend | |
Channel Zero / int_7ad0e492 | comment |
Imaginary Friend: The creature beyond the door was Jill's childhood "protector." And is less imaginary than she thought. | |
Channel Zero / int_7ad0e492 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_7ad0e492 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_7ad0e492 | |
Channel Zero / int_7c862b8a | type |
Chronic Backstabbing Disorder | |
Channel Zero / int_7c862b8a | comment |
Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Oh boy, Chief Vanczyk. First, he makes a deal with the Peaches to become head of the police department and tries to kill his son when he catches on to what the Peaches are doing. Then, when he realizes he failed to kill him, he shoots and kills three of the Peaches who were hunting his son down. | |
Channel Zero / int_7c862b8a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_7c862b8a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_7c862b8a | |
Channel Zero / int_7d89315b | type |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
Channel Zero / int_7d89315b | comment |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: John tears into Jules with one the second he's alone with her. It confirms that Jules abandoned Margot when things were at the worst because Margot's grief made her feel uncomfortable. | |
Channel Zero / int_7d89315b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_7d89315b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_7d89315b | |
Channel Zero / int_7e577db | type |
Slashed Throat | |
Channel Zero / int_7e577db | comment |
Slashed Throat: Poor Nathan... Happens again to Officer Luke Vanczyk, at the hands of his father, no less. | |
Channel Zero / int_7e577db | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_7e577db | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_7e577db | |
Channel Zero / int_8015df5d | type |
Reverse Whodunnit | |
Channel Zero / int_8015df5d | comment |
Reverse Whodunnit: We learn in the second episode that Mrs. Booth is connected to Candle Cove, but the main characters are clueless for several more episodes. | |
Channel Zero / int_8015df5d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_8015df5d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_8015df5d | |
Channel Zero / int_82982bcb | type |
Evil Doppelgänger | |
Channel Zero / int_82982bcb | comment |
Evil Doppelgänger: Ian makes one of Tom to try and trick Jill into having sex with him. | |
Channel Zero / int_82982bcb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_82982bcb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_82982bcb | |
Channel Zero / int_851dda8f | type |
Humanoid Abomination | |
Channel Zero / int_851dda8f | comment |
Humanoid Abomination: Pretzel Jack. Tall Boy, the Crayon Crew, and the baby that Tom and Jill "conceive" also count. | |
Channel Zero / int_851dda8f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_851dda8f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_851dda8f | |
Channel Zero / int_863fa679 | type |
What Happened to the Mouse? | |
Channel Zero / int_863fa679 | comment |
What Happened to the Mouse?: Jill is horrified to discover Ian based the dog he made for her on one of her favorite childhood toys, and this isn't helped by finding several other copies of the dog devouring her father's corpse. But what actually becomes of her dog isn't revealed. Presumably, it faded from existence with Ian's other creations upon his death, but this is never confirmed. | |
Channel Zero / int_863fa679 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_863fa679 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_863fa679 | |
Channel Zero / int_875615dd | type |
Truth in Television | |
Channel Zero / int_875615dd | comment |
Truth in Television: Most people who are admitted into psych wards are in more danger of others hurting them than vice-versa, as shown when Mike gets kidnapped by several of his former friends after he confesses to killing Eddie. Mike in addition to killing Eddie has harmed himself under Candle Cove's influence, which was part of his psychotic break. | |
Channel Zero / int_875615dd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_875615dd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_875615dd | |
Channel Zero / int_8797239c | type |
Bait-and-Switch | |
Channel Zero / int_8797239c | comment |
Bait-and-Switch: Mrs. Booth's continued insistence that Daphne drink her cocoa implies it's either drugged or poisoned. And then Booth comes up behind and slits her throat instead. | |
Channel Zero / int_8797239c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_8797239c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_8797239c | |
Channel Zero / int_89b8822f | type |
Go Mad from the Revelation | |
Channel Zero / int_89b8822f | comment |
Go Mad from the Revelation: Alice literally stares too long into the abyss as embodied by the Pestilent God and pays this as the price. | |
Channel Zero / int_89b8822f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_89b8822f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_89b8822f | |
Channel Zero / int_8a4988bb | type |
Mind Rape | |
Channel Zero / int_8a4988bb | comment |
Mind Rape: How the inhabitants of the House feed. They cause their creators' memories to manifest physically, which they then devour in a gruesome fashion. | |
Channel Zero / int_8a4988bb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_8a4988bb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_8a4988bb | |
Channel Zero / int_8b68d9a7 | type |
Stalker with a Crush | |
Channel Zero / int_8b68d9a7 | comment |
Stalker with a Crush: Averted with Tom who appears to be harassing a woman he once had an affair with. As it turns out he just wants a chance to be a parent to the son he believes he fathered with her. Played straight with Ian. | |
Channel Zero / int_8b68d9a7 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_8b68d9a7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_8b68d9a7 | |
Channel Zero / int_8ba9512b | type |
Our Zombies Are Different | |
Channel Zero / int_8ba9512b | comment |
Our Zombies Are Different: Denizens of the house that have been deprived of their only food source quickly devolve into rotting, mindless monsters who will attack anything that moves in the hope of sustenance. | |
Channel Zero / int_8ba9512b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_8ba9512b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_8ba9512b | |
Channel Zero / int_8d042d3e | type |
Abstract Eater | |
Channel Zero / int_8d042d3e | comment |
Abstract Eater: The creations of the No-End House eat the memories of the real people trapped within it. | |
Channel Zero / int_8d042d3e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_8d042d3e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_8d042d3e | |
Channel Zero / int_8ed5c6e4 | type |
Asshole Victim | |
Channel Zero / int_8ed5c6e4 | comment |
Asshole Victim: The obnoxious student loan guy gets his throat chewed out by Alice in the final episode. | |
Channel Zero / int_8ed5c6e4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_8ed5c6e4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_8ed5c6e4 | |
Channel Zero / int_8f7e610d | type |
Autocannibalism | |
Channel Zero / int_8f7e610d | comment |
Autocannibalism: Zoe, in order to get around her new-found Horror Hunger. | |
Channel Zero / int_8f7e610d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_8f7e610d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_8f7e610d | |
Channel Zero / int_90d44f44 | type |
Karmic Death | |
Channel Zero / int_90d44f44 | comment |
Karmic Death: Alpha JD, after disposing of the original JD's body through cremation, is burned alive after being found out by Dylan | |
Channel Zero / int_90d44f44 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_90d44f44 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_90d44f44 | |
Channel Zero / int_90e31482 | type |
Laser-Guided Karma | |
Channel Zero / int_90e31482 | comment |
Laser-Guided Karma: Alice sells out to the Peaches in exchange for a cure to her burgeoning insanity. After the Peaches are defeated, the Pestilent God breaks her mind. | |
Channel Zero / int_90e31482 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_90e31482 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_90e31482 | |
Channel Zero / int_932da128 | type |
Monster Clown | |
Channel Zero / int_932da128 | comment |
Monster Clown: Jill based Pretzel Jack off of a circus contortionist, and he certainly looks distinctly clown-ish. He becomes a rare heroic example of this trope after Jill properly gains control over him. | |
Channel Zero / int_932da128 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_932da128 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_932da128 | |
Channel Zero / int_95b7c400 | type |
Faux Affably Evil | |
Channel Zero / int_95b7c400 | comment |
Faux Affably Evil: After the Peaches induct Zoe into the family, they remain unfailingly polite to her. Despite this, they're quite forceful in trying to get her to eat human flesh. | |
Channel Zero / int_95b7c400 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_95b7c400 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_95b7c400 | |
Channel Zero / int_96d1b224 | type |
Little People Are Surreal | |
Channel Zero / int_96d1b224 | comment |
Little People Are Surreal: A robed dwarf kills people in the park with a meat tenderizer. And it turns out that there are several more also employed by the Peaches. | |
Channel Zero / int_96d1b224 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_96d1b224 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_96d1b224 | |
Channel Zero / int_970c790a | type |
Big Bad | |
Channel Zero / int_970c790a | comment |
Big Bad: Joseph Peach takes this role for the first two thirds of the season. Then it is revealed that he is really The Dragon of the Pestilent God, who is the true ruler of the Upstairs world. | |
Channel Zero / int_970c790a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_970c790a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_970c790a | |
Channel Zero / int_97d575f9 | type |
Guardian Entity | |
Channel Zero / int_97d575f9 | comment |
Guardian Entity: Pretzel Jack is one for Jill, as she created him to protect her, and he only attacks people who make her upset. Ian also has one in the form of Tall Boy. | |
Channel Zero / int_97d575f9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_97d575f9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_97d575f9 | |
Channel Zero / int_99db72ee | type |
Immune to Bullets | |
Channel Zero / int_99db72ee | comment |
Immune to Bullets: A common trait in the Peach family, but special mention goes to Butcher!Joseph who, unlike his relatives, doesn't even flinch when someone unloads a full magazine into him. | |
Channel Zero / int_99db72ee | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_99db72ee | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_99db72ee | |
Channel Zero / int_9a3b7208 | type |
The Needs of the Many | |
Channel Zero / int_9a3b7208 | comment |
The Needs of the Many: Mike killed his brother to save the other kids in Iron Hill. | |
Channel Zero / int_9a3b7208 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_9a3b7208 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_9a3b7208 | |
Channel Zero / int_9a5ae2a2 | type |
More Teeth than the Osmond Family | |
Channel Zero / int_9a5ae2a2 | comment |
More Teeth than the Osmond Family: A particularly disturbing variant with the Tooth Child, who seems to be made solely out of human teeth. | |
Channel Zero / int_9a5ae2a2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_9a5ae2a2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_9a5ae2a2 | |
Channel Zero / int_9ab3da1a | type |
Evil Mentor | |
Channel Zero / int_9ab3da1a | comment |
Evil Mentor: Ian to Jill. He teaches her how to control her powers, but it's only really a way of prying Jill away from Tom. | |
Channel Zero / int_9ab3da1a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_9ab3da1a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_9ab3da1a | |
Channel Zero / int_9ae0ead1 | type |
Villains Out Shopping | |
Channel Zero / int_9ae0ead1 | comment |
Villains Out Shopping: In between preying on the poor and innocent, the Peaches (and the Meat-Servant) are shown playing chess and generally spending quality time together. | |
Channel Zero / int_9ae0ead1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_9ae0ead1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_9ae0ead1 | |
Channel Zero / int_9b045a08 | type |
Wendigo | |
Channel Zero / int_9b045a08 | comment |
Wendigo: The Pestilent God seems to be a cosmic horror twist on this, complete with a penchant for turning people into ravenous cannibals, a skeletal face and deer antlers | |
Channel Zero / int_9b045a08 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_9b045a08 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_9b045a08 | |
Channel Zero / int_9b06e314 | type |
Greater-Scope Villain | |
Channel Zero / int_9b06e314 | comment |
Greater-Scope Villain: The Peaches are only lackeys for the Pestilent God. | |
Channel Zero / int_9b06e314 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_9b06e314 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_9b06e314 | |
Channel Zero / int_9ba53911 | type |
Stranger in a Familiar Land | |
Channel Zero / int_9ba53911 | comment |
Stranger in a Familiar Land: Mike's friends and even his own mother all act awkward around him upon his return to town, even before he becomes a suspect in the kidnapping of a child. | |
Channel Zero / int_9ba53911 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_9ba53911 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_9ba53911 | |
Channel Zero / int_9bcd82c0 | type |
Took a Level in Badass | |
Channel Zero / int_9bcd82c0 | comment |
Took a Level in Badass: Luke. He grew from an overly sensitive boy to an indifferent, lackadaisical police officer. By the end of the series, however, he is a stone cold bad ass, responsible for taking down Robert Peach, Smart Mouth, and his own corrupt, villainous father. | |
Channel Zero / int_9bcd82c0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_9bcd82c0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_9bcd82c0 | |
Channel Zero / int_9bee1a7f | type |
Eldritch Location | |
Channel Zero / int_9bee1a7f | comment |
Eldritch Location: The park. People tend to disappear there and see strange things, such as staircases that appear out of nowhere. The Peaches live in an Another Dimension of a bizarre "summer home" where it's always daytime, the plants grow human flesh, and the main house is always off in the distance, no matter how far you walk. | |
Channel Zero / int_9bee1a7f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_9bee1a7f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_9bee1a7f | |
Channel Zero / int_9c1f758a | type |
Kill It with Fire | |
Channel Zero / int_9c1f758a | comment |
Kill It with Fire: Whatever Joseph Peach's factory workers found in his abandoned house, their response was to burn it down. | |
Channel Zero / int_9c1f758a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_9c1f758a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_9c1f758a | |
Channel Zero / int_9cdb5ec5 | type |
Genre Anthology | |
Channel Zero / int_9cdb5ec5 | comment |
Genre Anthology: Each season tells a self-contained Horror story. | |
Channel Zero / int_9cdb5ec5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_9cdb5ec5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_9cdb5ec5 | |
Channel Zero / int_9d12bbc1 | type |
Foreshadowing | |
Channel Zero / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: Margot's mention of a recurring nightmare turns out to be very relevant. | |
Channel Zero / int_9d12bbc1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_9d12bbc1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_9d12bbc1 | |
Channel Zero / int_9dd2cbc2 | type |
CloudCuckooLander | |
Channel Zero / int_9dd2cbc2 | comment |
Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Most of the characters, at least to some degree, but the so-called "Scissor-Lady" takes the cake. She wanders around Butcher's Block, cheerfully warning newcomers about the crime rates and asking random strangers for scissors "so that she can cut off her bandages." At other times, she hangs around junkyards, finding abandoned dolls and cutting off their "bandages." The Peaches' riddle-loving "gardener" is also one of these. | |
Channel Zero / int_9dd2cbc2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_9dd2cbc2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_9dd2cbc2 | |
Channel Zero / int_9e86e227 | type |
The End... Or Is It? | |
Channel Zero / int_9e86e227 | comment |
The End... Or Is It?: The last event to happen in the series chronologically is Candle Cove showing itself to Lily, and Mike turning off the TV for her in ghost form - this despite that the whole resolution of the series was ensuring that Eddie - and by extension Mike - could no longer affect the real world. Showing that at least Mike *definitely* can casts this into doubt, and having Candle Cove reappear casts whether or not Eddie can influence the world into doubt too - the only other explanation is that he wasn't actually behind the show in the first place, no matter what the psychotic Frances Booth believes. Another possible interpretation is that Eddie is still able to influence the real world exactly as he did before, but now there's Mike with him, who may be able to use that same exact power to thwart his brother's efforts. It's probably possible because, as Eddie himself pointed out during the card game, Mike is able to draw power from the place they are both locked in exactly as Eddie. | |
Channel Zero / int_9e86e227 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_9e86e227 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_9e86e227 | |
Channel Zero / int_9fbe06a5 | type |
Badass in a Nice Suit | |
Channel Zero / int_9fbe06a5 | comment |
Badass in a Nice Suit: Robert Peach sports a nice, navy-blue three piece for most of the show. | |
Channel Zero / int_9fbe06a5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_9fbe06a5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_9fbe06a5 | |
Channel Zero / int_a0c7f4e9 | type |
Abandoned Hospital | |
Channel Zero / int_a0c7f4e9 | comment |
Abandoned Hospital: The bulk of the action in episode three takes place in a hospital that is closing due to lack of money, making it this for all intents and purposes. | |
Channel Zero / int_a0c7f4e9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_a0c7f4e9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_a0c7f4e9 | |
Channel Zero / int_a19e2ff0 | type |
Little Dead Riding Hood | |
Channel Zero / int_a19e2ff0 | comment |
Little Dead Riding Hood: Izzie wears a red hooded coat and she disappears along with her mother. In a possible Shout-Out to Don't Look Now, a monster child is Mistaken from Behind for her by Zoe. | |
Channel Zero / int_a19e2ff0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_a19e2ff0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_a19e2ff0 | |
Channel Zero / int_a25b0db9 | type |
Murderous Mannequin | |
Channel Zero / int_a25b0db9 | comment |
Murderous Mannequin: Mike's dream at the beginning, as the film crew of the man interviewing him turn out to be mannequins and dummies. | |
Channel Zero / int_a25b0db9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_a25b0db9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_a25b0db9 | |
Channel Zero / int_a2b38d3b | type |
Eye Scream | |
Channel Zero / int_a2b38d3b | comment |
Eye Scream: Bill Hope dies by having his eyes graphically gouged out of his skull. | |
Channel Zero / int_a2b38d3b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_a2b38d3b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_a2b38d3b | |
Channel Zero / int_a2b998a0 | type |
Wouldn't Hurt a Child | |
Channel Zero / int_a2b998a0 | comment |
Wouldn't Hurt a Child: The fact Jessica won't do this, even in self-defense, leads to her messy murder at the hands of the latest generation of Candle Cove affected children. | |
Channel Zero / int_a2b998a0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_a2b998a0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_a2b998a0 | |
Channel Zero / int_a32a1881 | type |
Supporting Leader | |
Channel Zero / int_a32a1881 | comment |
Supporting Leader: Acting Sheriff Amy. She's in charge of the town's response, figures out who is behind the murders, manages to avoid killing any of the kids under the effects of the TV show, and ultimately kills The Dragon, all while defying numerous horror tropes and somehow avoiding dying despite constantly going off by herself into dangerous situations. | |
Channel Zero / int_a32a1881 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_a32a1881 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_a32a1881 | |
Channel Zero / int_a4c37cbe | type |
Mood Whiplash | |
Channel Zero / int_a4c37cbe | comment |
Mood Whiplash: First, Jason and Jill get into a heated argument. Then, Pretzel Jack invades Jason's home and brutally murders him with a knife. Then, when he notices that Jill is upset, he tries to cheer her up with a short circus act, complete with jazz hands. | |
Channel Zero / int_a4c37cbe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_a4c37cbe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_a4c37cbe | |
Channel Zero / int_a5a3ae2b | type |
Orifice Invasion | |
Channel Zero / int_a5a3ae2b | comment |
Orifice Invasion: Eddie, as the Tooth Child, seems to do this with Mike to bring him into Candle Cove as a precursor for a full Grand Theft Me. | |
Channel Zero / int_a5a3ae2b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_a5a3ae2b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_a5a3ae2b | |
Channel Zero / int_a5fb0d24 | type |
Healing Factor | |
Channel Zero / int_a5fb0d24 | comment |
Healing Factor: It takes a lot of damage to slow Pretzel Jack down, but he can recover from it by resting for a few hours. | |
Channel Zero / int_a5fb0d24 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_a5fb0d24 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_a5fb0d24 | |
Channel Zero / int_a6123b72 | type |
Enfant Terrible | |
Channel Zero / int_a6123b72 | comment |
Enfant Terrible: Ian is heavily implied to have used his powers against bullies and animals when he was a kid. | |
Channel Zero / int_a6123b72 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_a6123b72 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_a6123b72 | |
Channel Zero / int_a70223 | type |
Karma Houdini | |
Channel Zero / int_a70223 | comment |
Karma Houdini: Other than being cheated out of its "offering", absolutely nothing bad happens to the Pestilent God. | |
Channel Zero / int_a70223 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_a70223 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_a70223 | |
Channel Zero / int_a7382a73 | type |
Imagine Spot | |
Channel Zero / int_a7382a73 | comment |
Imagine Spot: A dark one in the second episode, where Zoe imagines eating Louise's cat. | |
Channel Zero / int_a7382a73 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_a7382a73 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_a7382a73 | |
Channel Zero / int_a7b324e | type |
Handicapped Badass | |
Channel Zero / int_a7b324e | comment |
Handicapped Badass: Margot and Seth try to take down John using the same medication that killed Margot's father. This leaves him blinded and barely able to breathe, yet still more than a physical match for both of them. | |
Channel Zero / int_a7b324e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_a7b324e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_a7b324e | |
Channel Zero / int_a7f551dc | type |
Imagination-Based Superpower | |
Channel Zero / int_a7f551dc | comment |
Imagination-Based Superpower: What the dream doors essentially are. Anyone who can use them are able to bring creations from their imaginations into the real world. Jill and Ian can use them, and the ending implies that the ability has also been passed down to Jill’s child. | |
Channel Zero / int_a7f551dc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_a7f551dc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_a7f551dc | |
Channel Zero / int_a8c1433e | type |
Dead Star Walking | |
Channel Zero / int_a8c1433e | comment |
Dead Star Walking: Unlike in previous season's, this season's advertised special guest star - Steven Weber - has his character offed before the end of the third episode. Ditto with horror-star Barbara Crampton, who is set up as a major character but gets fatally attacked in the second episode, ultimately dying before the title card of the third. | |
Channel Zero / int_a8c1433e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_a8c1433e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_a8c1433e | |
Channel Zero / int_a939d96a | type |
Adults Are Useless | |
Channel Zero / int_a939d96a | comment |
Adults Are Useless: Margot's mother travels frequently for her job and departs on an extended business trip just as the story begins. | |
Channel Zero / int_a939d96a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_a939d96a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_a939d96a | |
Channel Zero / int_aba8065b | type |
Fatal Flaw | |
Channel Zero / int_aba8065b | comment |
Fatal Flaw: Alice's paranoia over inheriting her mother's schizophrenia ultimately results in her abandoning her family and joining the Peaches to become a cannibal in exchange for a cure. So great is her desire for a real family that she chooses to warn the Peaches of Zoe's plan to rescue Izzy and escape the realm at the top of the staircase. | |
Channel Zero / int_aba8065b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_aba8065b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_aba8065b | |
Channel Zero / int_abc60c5d | type |
Harmful to Minors | |
Channel Zero / int_abc60c5d | comment |
Harmful to Minors: Ian's brutal murders of the two police officers happens in front of a school bus full of children. | |
Channel Zero / int_abc60c5d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_abc60c5d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_abc60c5d | |
Channel Zero / int_abd29ad8 | type |
No-Sell | |
Channel Zero / int_abd29ad8 | comment |
No-Sell: Pretzel Jack is able to shrug off multiple point-blank gunshot wounds. ditto with Tall Boy. | |
Channel Zero / int_abd29ad8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_abd29ad8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_abd29ad8 | |
Channel Zero / int_ac09dc0f | type |
Alas, Poor Villain | |
Channel Zero / int_ac09dc0f | comment |
Alas, Poor Villain: In a scene that's surprisingly played very straight, Joseph takes a moment to mourn the deaths of Robert, Aldous and two of his children. He takes off his hat and sheds a few soundless tears, before offering a handkerchief to Smart Mouth. | |
Channel Zero / int_ac09dc0f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_ac09dc0f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_ac09dc0f | |
Channel Zero / int_ac2094ca | type |
Red Shirt | |
Channel Zero / int_ac2094ca | comment |
Red Shirt: When Joseph ventures into the Pestilent God's domain, one of his dwarf servants joins him at the last minute. Guess which one doesn't survive. | |
Channel Zero / int_ac2094ca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_ac2094ca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_ac2094ca | |
Channel Zero / int_ac36578e | type |
Or Was It a Dream? | |
Channel Zero / int_ac36578e | comment |
Or Was It a Dream?: The show eschews catapult nightmares and the like so that it is not always clear when Mike's dreams begin or end, casting ambiguity on many of the events we see. | |
Channel Zero / int_ac36578e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_ac36578e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_ac36578e | |
Channel Zero / int_acecb17d | type |
Chekhov's Skill | |
Channel Zero / int_acecb17d | comment |
Chekhov's Skill: Louise's taxidermy hobby turns into a literal lifesaver when it comes time to perform emergency surgery. | |
Channel Zero / int_acecb17d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_acecb17d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_acecb17d | |
Channel Zero / int_af3ea0e3 | type |
Face–Heel Turn | |
Channel Zero / int_af3ea0e3 | comment |
Face–Heel Turn: Alice takes Joseph's offer and willingly joins the family. | |
Channel Zero / int_af3ea0e3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_af3ea0e3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_af3ea0e3 | |
Channel Zero / int_b1a3ce24 | type |
Horned Humanoid | |
Channel Zero / int_b1a3ce24 | comment |
Horned Humanoid: The Pestilent God has a set of impressive antlers. | |
Channel Zero / int_b1a3ce24 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_b1a3ce24 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_b1a3ce24 | |
Channel Zero / int_b2441a13 | type |
Static Stun Gun | |
Channel Zero / int_b2441a13 | comment |
Static Stun Gun: Robert uses one at one point against the Scissor-lady. | |
Channel Zero / int_b2441a13 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_b2441a13 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_b2441a13 | |
Channel Zero / int_b39d5719 | type |
Sadist | |
Channel Zero / int_b39d5719 | comment |
Sadist: The Big Bad prolongs his violent murders far past what it would take to just kill his victims. There's a lot of screaming. | |
Channel Zero / int_b39d5719 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_b39d5719 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_b39d5719 | |
Channel Zero / int_b3bdf232 | type |
Alien Geometries | |
Channel Zero / int_b3bdf232 | comment |
Alien Geometries: The door in the basement leads to a massive sub-level that should jut into the neighbor's cellar, but doesn't. The dream doors, all with chambers behind them, show up in more and more ridiculous locations until they start appearing on the front door of Tom's house and on a window | |
Channel Zero / int_b3bdf232 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_b3bdf232 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_b3bdf232 | |
Channel Zero / int_b50504d | type |
Creepily Long Arms | |
Channel Zero / int_b50504d | comment |
Creepily Long Arms: One manifestation of Alice's schizophrenia is bizarrely proportioned, with long, bony arms, legs and hands. | |
Channel Zero / int_b50504d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_b50504d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_b50504d | |
Channel Zero / int_b58b4e3c | type |
Too Dumb to Live | |
Channel Zero / int_b58b4e3c | comment |
Too Dumb to Live: After seeing Pretzel Jack — whom he's been told has been running around killing people — climb in through his office window, Jill's psychiatrist's response is to get indignant and demand Pretzel Jack leave. Pretzel Jack responds by crushing his head. Averted with the rest of the cast. Pretzel Jack certainly doesn’t have it easy in the “murderous entity” department. | |
Channel Zero / int_b58b4e3c | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_b58b4e3c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_b58b4e3c | |
Channel Zero / int_b901ef97 | type |
Forgotten Fallen Friend | |
Channel Zero / int_b901ef97 | comment |
Forgotten Fallen Friend: Zigzagged. After escaping the House, Jules and Margot make absolutely no mention of the death of their lifelong friend JD, let alone what they'll tell his family and the authorities about his disappearance. Jules, however, does experience a brief hallucination of him, indicating that he is weighing heavily on her mind. And, of course, they've both literally forgotten a lot about their friendship with him after being fed on by the house, which can't be helping. | |
Channel Zero / int_b901ef97 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_b901ef97 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_b901ef97 | |
Channel Zero / int_b9f6cc0a | type |
The Bluebeard | |
Channel Zero / int_b9f6cc0a | comment |
The Bluebeard: Seth with a collection of "hollow" girlfriends. When they are discovered, he says he is not a serial killer but a serial monogamist. Margot retorts that they are not mutually exclusive. There is Laser-Guided Karma for this in the end, since they all seem to be waiting passively to claim his husk when his family is through with him. | |
Channel Zero / int_b9f6cc0a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_b9f6cc0a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_b9f6cc0a | |
Channel Zero / int_ba0ff694 | type |
You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me! | |
Channel Zero / int_ba0ff694 | comment |
You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Said by Tom when Ian, who had just been arrested for multiple murders shows up again at his front door. | |
Channel Zero / int_ba0ff694 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_ba0ff694 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_ba0ff694 | |
Channel Zero / int_bc00493f | type |
Precision F-Strike | |
Channel Zero / int_bc00493f | comment |
Precision F-Strike: Joseph Peach's last words to the Pestilent God: | |
Channel Zero / int_bc00493f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_bc00493f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_bc00493f | |
Channel Zero / int_bf698238 | type |
When All You Have Is a Hammer… | |
Channel Zero / int_bf698238 | comment |
When All You Have Is a Hammer…: Verging on Guile Hero. The protagonist is a renowned child psychologist, and despite always being in the wrong place at the wrong time and visibly suffering from a recent psychotic break, he acts like it. Mike deals with almost every situation by taking on a quiet, nonthreatening demeanor. He usually gets what he wants. | |
Channel Zero / int_bf698238 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_bf698238 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_bf698238 | |
Channel Zero / int_c1b2c63f | type |
Dull Surprise | |
Channel Zero / int_c1b2c63f | comment |
Dull Surprise: With the exception of his girlfriend, Tamara, who stumbles out the exit door in shell-shocked horror, no one seems overly disturbed by the apparent murder of a fellow guest. Justified in that the protagonists believe those involved to be actors employed by the attraction and that it is all fake. JD even scoffs at it as the house trying too hard to be edgy. | |
Channel Zero / int_c1b2c63f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_c1b2c63f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_c1b2c63f | |
Channel Zero / int_c2393191 | type |
Show Within a Show | |
Channel Zero / int_c2393191 | comment |
Show Within a Show: Candle Cove, of course. | |
Channel Zero / int_c2393191 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_c2393191 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_c2393191 | |
Channel Zero / int_c24c1556 | type |
Dramatic Chase Opening | |
Channel Zero / int_c24c1556 | comment |
Dramatic Chase Opening: The first episode of the season depicts a frightened woman named Lacey stumbling toward the No-End House with a determined man in hot pursuit. | |
Channel Zero / int_c24c1556 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_c24c1556 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_c24c1556 | |
Channel Zero / int_c2f7db18 | type |
Alien Blood | |
Channel Zero / int_c2f7db18 | comment |
Alien Blood: Pretzel Jack has a white ooze in place of blood. As do all of Ian's creations. | |
Channel Zero / int_c2f7db18 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_c2f7db18 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_c2f7db18 | |
Channel Zero / int_c324a7d | type |
Cannibal Clan | |
Channel Zero / int_c324a7d | comment |
Cannibal Clan: The Peaches | |
Channel Zero / int_c324a7d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_c324a7d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_c324a7d | |
Channel Zero / int_c349d36a | type |
BoomHEADSHOT | |
Channel Zero / int_c349d36a | comment |
Boom Head Shot: Dylan disposes of Lacey's double this way. | |
Channel Zero / int_c349d36a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_c349d36a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_c349d36a | |
Channel Zero / int_c3585f4a | type |
Boom, Headshot! | |
Channel Zero / int_c3585f4a | comment |
Boom, Headshot!: Robert Peach, courtesy of Officer Luke Vanczyk. It doesn't seem to bother him that much. | |
Channel Zero / int_c3585f4a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_c3585f4a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_c3585f4a | |
Channel Zero / int_c378ba5f | type |
Sealed Evil in a Duel | |
Channel Zero / int_c378ba5f | comment |
Sealed Evil in a Duel: In the end Eddie can continue to try to reach out to children through Candle Cove, but Mike can stop him. Given this is after their bodies are both dead it seems a state of affairs that might continue indefinitely. | |
Channel Zero / int_c378ba5f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_c378ba5f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_c378ba5f | |
Channel Zero / int_c40c8b74 | type |
And Starring | |
Channel Zero / int_c40c8b74 | comment |
And Starring: John Carroll Lynch, who portrays the father of the protagonist. | |
Channel Zero / int_c40c8b74 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_c40c8b74 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_c40c8b74 | |
Channel Zero / int_c4db6423 | type |
Yank the Dog's Chain | |
Channel Zero / int_c4db6423 | comment |
Yank the Dog's Chain: In Episode One: Mike came home, chased "Jawbone" away with a knife, rescued the missing girl, learned the Awful Truth about his childhood watching Candle Cove, and left with his sanity (mostly) intact. Naturally, his hotel room gets a phone call, taunting him that the game has just begun. | |
Channel Zero / int_c4db6423 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_c4db6423 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_c4db6423 | |
Channel Zero / int_c6102eb0 | type |
Grand Theft Me | |
Channel Zero / int_c6102eb0 | comment |
There turns out to be a reason for this — it's really Eddie's spirit hoping to pull Grand Theft Me on Mike. | |
Channel Zero / int_c6102eb0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_c6102eb0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_c6102eb0 | |
Channel Zero / int_c66cb5a9 | type |
Human Sacrifice | |
Channel Zero / int_c66cb5a9 | comment |
Human Sacrifice: Nathan mentions rumors about the Peaches doing this. They're true, with the family occasionally handing over children to the Pestilent God as "rent". | |
Channel Zero / int_c66cb5a9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_c66cb5a9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_c66cb5a9 | |
Channel Zero / int_c691d3f4 | type |
Offscreen Teleportation | |
Channel Zero / int_c691d3f4 | comment |
Offscreen Teleportation: Mike himself, who finds himself in wildly disconnected locations around Iron Hill after losing track of himself. | |
Channel Zero / int_c691d3f4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_c691d3f4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_c691d3f4 | |
Channel Zero / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
Channel Zero / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: The first episode uses the theme music from Cannibal Holocaust. The show's creators explicitly cite Dario Argento films as one of the season's influences; reflecting this, multiple shots throughout the season reference Argento's ''Suspiria'' Joseph Peach's "Butcher" form is very reminiscent of the bar scene in Twin Peaks, another explicitly cited influence. | |
Channel Zero / int_c75df49a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_c75df49a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_c75df49a | |
Channel Zero / int_c8f98eb5 | type |
Ontological Mystery | |
Channel Zero / int_c8f98eb5 | comment |
Ontological Mystery: From the point of view of the new John and JD their story is this. They come into existence with all of the original's memories up to that point, but are aware of not having personally experienced them. Beyond that, they must gradually figure out what they are and why they exist. | |
Channel Zero / int_c8f98eb5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_c8f98eb5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_c8f98eb5 | |
Channel Zero / int_ca87e3ec | type |
No Name Given | |
Channel Zero / int_ca87e3ec | comment |
No Name Given: The Pestilent God is never actually referred to as the "Pestilent God" by the Peaches, who merely refer to it as "our God". Its (presumed) name is derived from an alternate title of the episode it's introduced ("The Red Door"). | |
Channel Zero / int_ca87e3ec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero / int_ca87e3ec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Channel Zero / int_ca87e3ec | |
Channel Zero / int_ccc73c34 | type |
Spooky Painting | |
Channel Zero / int_ccc73c34 | comment |
Spooky Painting: Butcher's Block is lousy with creepy graffiti murals depicting "the Butcher." The parlor where the Peaches play chess contains a copy of Fuseli's ''The Nightmare'' | |
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Channel Zero / int_cf7b362 | type |
Horror Hunger | |
Channel Zero / int_cf7b362 | comment |
Horror Hunger: Zoe, after her "operation." She gets around it by eating her own leg. Alice develops one after her own operation. She's far less reluctant than her sister to indulge it. | |
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Channel Zero / int_d08595d3 | type |
Broken Bird | |
Channel Zero / int_d08595d3 | comment |
Broken Bird: Alice. At some indeterminate point in the past, her mother suffered a mental breakdown and stabbed her sister in the abdomen. She later learned that her mother's condition was hereditary, and that both she and her sister had a chance of getting it as well. Later, her sister suffered a breakdown as well, tearing up her neighbors flower bed and screaming that she didn't know who her own sister was. This all turned her into a Stepford Smiler, terrified that she would suffer a breakdown as well. | |
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1.0 | |
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Channel Zero / int_d17d7135 | type |
Death by Genre Savviness | |
Channel Zero / int_d17d7135 | comment |
Death by Genre Savviness: In the story told at the beginning of the pilot. The girl who hears a sound in the bushes and goes off to investigate, calling "hello," ends up unharmed, while her friend, who gets the hell out of there at the first sign of creepiness, is attacked and killed by the dwarf. | |
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Death by Childbirth | |
Channel Zero / int_d29a6629 | comment |
Death by Childbirth: Heavily implied to have been Edie's fate; when we last see her, the Peaches have failed to deliver the child to the Pestilent God and a stream of blood and viscera is coming out during delivery. | |
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Schmuck Bait | |
Channel Zero / int_d2c0e2ed | comment |
Schmuck Bait: The No-End House's entire MO. It has built up a legend for itself as the ultimate haunted house attraction, luring victims to it with cryptic videos and sheer word-of-mouth. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
Channel Zero / int_d397657d | comment |
Hoist by His Own Petard: Ian is accidentally slain by a berserk and partially blinded Tall Boy, one of his creations. | |
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Morally Ambiguous Doctorate | |
Channel Zero / int_d3aad64a | comment |
Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Subverted; Mike doesn't do any questionable medical tasks while he's suspected of murder. | |
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Hypocrite | |
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Hypocrite: Ian basically and jealously accuses Jillian of liking Tom because of an Electra complex. This after he's openly admitted to pursuing her (despite being her brother) and dedicated a lot of energy into trying to Murder the Hypotenuse. | |
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It Has Only Just Begun | |
Channel Zero / int_d5b06fbb | comment |
It Has Only Just Begun: Uttered almost word for word at the end of the first episode. | |
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Channel Zero / int_db33bc7e | type |
Ludicrous Gibs | |
Channel Zero / int_db33bc7e | comment |
Ludicrous Gibs: The Pestilent God metes this punishment out on those who displease him. | |
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Malevolent Masked Men | |
Channel Zero / int_db88b941 | comment |
Malevolent Masked Men: In Room 2 the participants are menaced by an entity in a bizarre-looking mask. He returned for JD's version of Room 5. | |
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TheSixthRanger | |
Channel Zero / int_dbe013f | comment |
The Sixth Ranger: Scissor Lady in the finale. On the Peaches' side, they get Alice, also in the finale. | |
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1.0 | |
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Channel Zero / int_dc057cf3 | type |
Adaptation Name Change | |
Channel Zero / int_dc057cf3 | comment |
Adaptation Name Change: The user mike_painter65 becomes child psychologist Mike Painter. Back and forth in-universe. In the original story, the skeleton character is "The Skin-Taker." In the show, the character is referred to as "Jawbone." However, the brainwashed children and his appearances in the characters' nightmares still refer to him as "The Skin-Taker," so apparently the Show Within a Show went with A Form You Are Comfortable With. This is confirmed when we meet him in Eddie's realm in the finale. | |
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The Scapegoat | |
Channel Zero / int_dc8ba6d5 | comment |
The Scapegoat: Ian voluntarily takes the blame for Jason's, Vanessa's, and Dr. Carnacki's murders. | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure | |
Channel Zero / int_dca70c44 | comment |
Reasonable Authority Figure: Acting Sheriff Amy, who somehow manages to avoid falling prey to the usual horror tropes and manages to ultimately kill The Dragon. | |
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Channel Zero / int_dcbe8a6e | type |
Chekhov's Gunman | |
Channel Zero / int_dcbe8a6e | comment |
Chekhov's Gunman: The Scissor Lady ends up saving Izzy from the Peaches at the last minute, thwarting their plans and dooming them. | |
Channel Zero / int_dcbe8a6e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Channel Zero / int_dcbe8a6e | |
Channel Zero / int_dd95a27b | type |
I Never Told You My Name | |
Channel Zero / int_dd95a27b | comment |
I Never Told You My Name: It's a Wham Line when Jill talks to her neighbor and only refers to a "contortionist clown" before he says, "Pretzel Jack killed your friend." | |
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1.0 | |
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Channel Zero / int_df410b77 | type |
Decoy Protagonist | |
Channel Zero / int_df410b77 | comment |
Decoy Protagonist: It takes a while, but Zoe emerges as the true hero of the story while her sister Alice, who had all the makings of a steadfast champion, gives in to evil. | |
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Channel Zero / int_df41acb | type |
Casual Danger Dialogue | |
Channel Zero / int_df41acb | comment |
Casual Danger Dialogue: Tom and Ian tend to talk to each other very calmly despite the circumstances they're in. | |
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Channel Zero / int_e0040f41 | type |
Start of Darkness | |
Channel Zero / int_e0040f41 | comment |
Start of Darkness: For Joseph Peach and his family, it was his daughters being murdered, which led him to make a pact with the Pestilent God, receiving protection and immortality in exchange for child sacrifices. | |
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Channel Zero / int_e19e68 | type |
Cruel Mercy | |
Channel Zero / int_e19e68 | comment |
Cruel Mercy: The Pestilent God opts to break Alice's mind rather than explode her along with the Peaches. | |
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Channel Zero / int_e1acc872 | type |
From Nobody to Nightmare | |
Channel Zero / int_e1acc872 | comment |
From Nobody to Nightmare: Mike didn't anticipate that his brother would become an entity that would take revenge on their bullies. | |
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Channel Zero / int_e35bc0f7 | type |
Tragic Monster | |
Channel Zero / int_e35bc0f7 | comment |
Tragic Monster: John from the house is portrayed with a great degree of sympathy. His acts of villainy come from his insatiable hunger rather than malice. He also pulls a Heel–Face Turn and helps save Margot in the end. Most of the sympathy also comes from a brilliant performance by John Carroll Lynch. | |
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Channel Zero / int_e431c24c | type |
Not Quite Dead | |
Channel Zero / int_e431c24c | comment |
Not Quite Dead: Robert Peach, after suffering multiple gunshot wounds (including one on his head), manages to get up from the basement floor and ambush Luke and Louise. | |
Channel Zero / int_e431c24c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Channel Zero / int_e4fc9fbc | type |
A Glitch in the Matrix | |
Channel Zero / int_e4fc9fbc | comment |
A Glitch in the Matrix: While the food at the Peaches' table generally looks appetizing, occasional glimpses of what they're actually eating peak through from time to time. Joseph Peach starts experiencing this when agitated, causing his Game Face to peak through. | |
Channel Zero / int_e4fc9fbc | featureApplicability |
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Channel Zero / int_e502e268 | type |
Family Theme Naming | |
Channel Zero / int_e502e268 | comment |
Family Theme Naming: Sisters Alice and Zoe have initials from opposite ends of the alphabet. | |
Channel Zero / int_e502e268 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Channel Zero / int_e502e268 | |
Channel Zero / int_e567510d | type |
Determinator | |
Channel Zero / int_e567510d | comment |
Determinator: Both Pretzel Jack and Tall Boy absolutely do not stop pursuing or attacking a target until it is dead. | |
Channel Zero / int_e567510d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Channel Zero / int_e567510d | |
Channel Zero / int_e57c714d | type |
Insane Equals Violent | |
Channel Zero / int_e57c714d | comment |
Insane Equals Violent: Somewhat played straight with Scissors Lady and Alice's mother, who both attack Zoe with a pair of broken scissors and a razor blade, respectively. In Alice's mother's case, she manages to stab Zoe several times. Generally averted with Zoe, whose psychosis only really manifests as non-violent outbursts, and inverted with Alice, whose fear of mental illness ultimately drives her to commit greater acts of destruction than either her sister or her mother. | |
Channel Zero / int_e57c714d | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
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Channel Zero / int_e7b0229a | type |
Laser-Guided Amnesia | |
Channel Zero / int_e7b0229a | comment |
Laser-Guided Amnesia: The House has the ability to do this to people. The girl Alpha JD makes out is implied to have no memory of who she is, and Lacey doesn't remember Dylan. | |
Channel Zero / int_e7b0229a | featureApplicability |
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Channel Zero / int_eb251937 | type |
Dirty Cop | |
Channel Zero / int_eb251937 | comment |
Dirty Cop: Luke's dad made a deal with the Peaches while they were still alive. He unsuccessfully tries to murder his son to keep the truth hidden. | |
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Channel Zero / int_eb81c601 | type |
Big Damn Heroes | |
Channel Zero / int_eb81c601 | comment |
Big Damn Heroes: Luke when he saves Scissor Lady from Smart Mouth in the finale. | |
Channel Zero / int_eb81c601 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Channel Zero / int_eb8f64a6 | type |
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished | |
Channel Zero / int_eb8f64a6 | comment |
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Mike during the search for Katie manages to find and save her. Due to having acted "crazy" on being asked about an alibi and gone missing, however, Katie's father detains him for a few hours. Mike lampshades this while the Chief questions him. | |
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Channel Zero / int_eba911fd | type |
Dark Messiah | |
Channel Zero / int_eba911fd | comment |
Dark Messiah: Mrs. Booth seems quite convinced Eddie is a Jesus-like figure, since he stopped her seizure with his powers. She even sacrificed her own child to him and Candle Cove, and sees Mike as the vessel for his return. | |
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Channel Zero / int_ec0ce986 | type |
Spotting the Thread | |
Channel Zero / int_ec0ce986 | comment |
Spotting the Thread: Dylan figures out that the "Lacey" who comes running up to him on the street is not real because she's wearing a shirt that he knows is actually in her closet, outside the House. | |
Channel Zero / int_ec0ce986 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Channel Zero / int_ec0ce986 | |
Channel Zero / int_ece27800 | type |
Kill and Replace | |
Channel Zero / int_ece27800 | comment |
Kill and Replace: JD's double decides on this option and beats his original to death. | |
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1.0 | |
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Channel Zero / int_ed68bcc9 | type |
Dwindling Party | |
Channel Zero / int_ed68bcc9 | comment |
Dwindling Party: Of the group that enter the No-End House with Margot and Jules, two quickly leave and one is almost certainly killed. A more fatal version occurs when the group tries to escape the house. Lacey, Alpha JD, and Dylan all are killed in the process. | |
Channel Zero / int_ed68bcc9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Channel Zero / int_ef0a5ce | type |
Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? | |
Channel Zero / int_ef0a5ce | comment |
Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?: Once his spirit is dragged into Eddie's Realm, Mike convinces Eddie to finish a card game they started as kids. While he loses, it distracts Eddie long enough for their mother to kill Mike's body, cutting them both off from the real world forever. | |
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1.0 | |
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Channel Zero / int_f0e340fd | type |
Lost in the Maize | |
Channel Zero / int_f0e340fd | comment |
Lost in the Maize: The exit lies beyond a creepy corn maze full of wandering memory-eating zombies. | |
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1.0 | |
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Channel Zero / int_f25b1ae6 | type |
Unskilled, but Strong | |
Channel Zero / int_f25b1ae6 | comment |
Unskilled, but Strong: Jill's powers, before she is trained. Pretzel Jack manifests from emotions she isn't controlling (specifically, anger), and can track down the person she's upset with even if she has no idea where they actually are. Ian, by contrast, much greater control over his powers, but has to actually hunt down anyone he's pursuing, possessing Tall Boy as his proxy. | |
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1.0 | |
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Channel Zero / int_f3d5d15f | type |
Creepy Child | |
Channel Zero / int_f3d5d15f | comment |
Creepy Child: Any child under the influence of Candle Cove lapses into this almost immediately. And that's before they gang up to murder Tim in the same manner they "played" with a dummy. | |
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Channel Zero / int_f76b8969 | type |
Anthropomorphic Personification | |
Channel Zero / int_f76b8969 | comment |
Anthropomorphic Personification: A particularly horrifying example with Alice's "Schizophrenia" monster, who starts out as a face glimpsed in a vision but steadily grows more corporeal until it begins to chase Alice. | |
Channel Zero / int_f76b8969 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Channel Zero / int_fb0fa1ba | type |
Sinister Scraping Sound | |
Channel Zero / int_fb0fa1ba | comment |
Sinister Scraping Sound: Jawbone's bones and the Tooth Child's teeth. | |
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Channel Zero / int_fc33ff16 | type |
One-Winged Angel | |
Channel Zero / int_fc33ff16 | comment |
Special mention to Joseph Peach's "Butcher" form, perhaps the oddest and most terrifying monster in the series thus far. | |
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Channel Zero / int_fd1b902c | type |
Non-Malicious Monster | |
Channel Zero / int_fd1b902c | comment |
Non-Malicious Monster: Pretzel Jack as it turns out. He doesn't kill out of sadism or bloodlust but because he was created to protect Jill. Without Jill giving him specific guidance, he just defaults to killing anyone who wrongs Jill in some way. | |
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Channel Zero / int_fd4f8299 | type |
Well-Intentioned Extremist | |
Channel Zero / int_fd4f8299 | comment |
Well-Intentioned Extremist: All Pretzel Jack wants to do is protect Jill and make her happy. Unfortunately, that sometimes means killing people she's temporarily angry at. | |
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1.0 | |
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Channel Zero / int_fe1b2e75 | type |
Bigger on the Inside | |
Channel Zero / int_fe1b2e75 | comment |
Bigger on the Inside: The dimensions of the rooms inside the House do not add up to its exterior profile. Not only that, but the final room is actually an entire pocket universe the size of a neighborhood! | |
Channel Zero / int_fe1b2e75 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Channel Zero / int_feaf12e8 | type |
Survivor Guilt | |
Channel Zero / int_feaf12e8 | comment |
Survivor Guilt: Margot's father passed away from an allergic reaction to prescription medication. On the night that it happened, Margot got home an hour later than she had promised, only to discover his lifeless body. She now torments herself over whether she could have saved him if she had only come home on time. | |
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Channel Zero / int_fee034aa | type |
Abandoned Playground | |
Channel Zero / int_fee034aa | comment |
Abandoned Playground: A prominent location in the season. This is where the Peach's house used to be, before it was burned down. | |
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Surreal Horror / int_87e9a6c4 | |
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The Tooth Hurts / int_87e9a6c4 | |
Channel Zero | hasFeature |
Wretched Hive / int_87e9a6c4 |
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