Great Film overall

Don't Believe the Hype

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

This series will satisfy fans of BBC style shows where each season delivers a separate and compete thought (anthology). I know this to be a deterrent for some viewers. I personally love this style of television. It does not cater to the shock scares or gore for the most part. Great production value for the SYFY network and acting is above par for their norm! As a die hard horror fan, I STRONGLY recommend!

I don't know what show these people that praise this series are watching, coz I'm apparently watching something different. Coz from what I've send, this show sucks. My introduction to this series was "Channel Zero: Candle Cove", which everyone knows is based off of the "Candle Cove" story that was featured on the Creepypasta website, and is about a children's show that may not have even existed. Now, as soon as you see "A Syfy channel original" in the opening credits, you can be sure of a few things. It will either a. Suck b. Be a complete ripoff of a bigger movie or c. Have horrible acting and laughable effects. This series added something new to the list. Incredibly boring. Nothing ever really happens throughout the entire first part of the season, and the climax is a huge let down. The only parts that were even watching were the puppets on the "candle cover" parts, and thos scenes only ever lasted for a few seconds. Definitely not worth your time

SyFy channel cheap. We have someone walking around wearing an obvious fabric costume with supposedly teeth covering it (It's no tooth fairy!) except improbably all the teeth have the same color, size, and mostly the same shape (no molars visible - very picky tooth collector). We have the usual hanging plastic sheets colored to represent skin (a real stretch). Then there's the tiresome writer's non-imaginative old hook of children possessed by TV screens which show static to adults, but an evil puppet program to the soon to be nasty little buggers. Also used before, our kids enter into the TV through the screen for whatever reason. What's a horror show without cheap masks - yep, kids hav'em. Oh, if this hasn't been done a thousand times - it all takes place in a small town where unexplained, unsolved murders happened long ago. Guess what's missing from the victims - some teeth. Nothing original; cheap props & sets; no acting; viewing time spent mostly watching kids watching cheaply made puppets do the same thing over and over.

It played better than I'd expected from the previews, and it delivered as indicated - creepy horror.The first episode of the second season is even better, IMO. Acting and writing both seemed excellent (meaning I didn't notice them), and the story builds at just the right tempo. The characters' stubborn obliviousness to the danger is disturbing yet not unbelievable at all, given the context.I'm looking forward to the next episode, and I do that with only a few TV shows, and never before with horror TV.