Comcast has teamed up with Sony and Lionsgate to launch an on demand Horror television channel.

FEARnet will launch on October 31st 2006 with three sources of consumption: online, mobile phone or on-demand television. The new network will offer Comcast digital customers horror shorts and trailers and about 70 hours of movies a month from the studios' combined libraries, which include: Poltergeist, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Carrie, Ghoulies, Night of the Living Dead, The Howling and the original The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The network plans to showcase over  200 full length horror films each year - WOW.

Sony and Lionsgate have more than 1,000 horror films in their libraries which makes up about half of all the horror films owned by all the major movie studios. So there is a lot of potential here. And the best part? It's FREE!

The movies will be supported by ads which will appear from time to time embedded on part of the screen during the movie and during "intermissions" which might also feature interviews with directors and stars. The website will offer 50 movies for sale or rent and some will even be available for free. The site will also feature clips, games and a horror database.