"No-End House," Season 2 of Channel Zero, is based on a creepypasta about a guy whose buddy talks him into going to the titular haunted house: 8 rooms, each more terrifying, and if you make it through them all, you win $500. There's substantial buddy bonding, and no women are mentioned. You can easily read the narrator as gay.Then comes Channel Zero.
According to the IMDB, it's a woman, Margot (Amy Forsyth) -- media always loves scaring women a lot more than scaring men -- and she goes in with her friends.
1.Jules (Aisha Dee)
2.J.D.
3.Dylan
4. Seth (Jeff Ward, left).
Three guys? Some potential for same-sex bonding? I looked them up online...some beefcake, anyway. So I purchased the second season of Channel Zero.
We begin with about 10 minutes of creepy grabbing-in-a-swimming-pool and I'll-love-you-forever scenes between a young Margot and Daddy John Carroll Lynch. Way too incestuous!
Followed by another 10 minutes of a college-age Margot mourning the death of her boyfriend...um, I mean father, until her old friend Jules shows up and practically drags her out of the house to a bar. Maybe, for a change of pace, she could meet a guy her own age, who isn't a close relative?
Margot picks up the charismatic Seth, and Jules hangs out with just-friend-but-wanting more J.D.The guys are so taken by the girls that they completely ignore each other. So much for male bonding.
They all decide to go to the No End House, which is quite a popular attraction, with cars lined up for a block. If you go through all six rooms, you win.
Groups are let in 8 at a time, but members of Margot's group drop out during the first three rooms, leaving only the two couples and the morose Dylan
The remaining rooms lead to various creepy alternate worlds.
J.D. (Seamus Patterson, left) goes to what he thinks is his house, where he sees an alternative version of himself kissing a hot girl. The two versions get into a fight over the girl's affection...um...
Dylan (Sebastian Piggot, left) is in the house searching for his wife, who was lost there earlier. But he meets an alternative version, who doesn't recognize him.
Jules just sees a demonic orb floating around.
Fortunately, Seth talks her out of it. He wants Margot to stay with him in the House forever. Or rather, in a reality where they're the perfect husband and wife.
Torn between two lovers. What's a girl to do?
Leave with Jules?
There's a lesbian subtext between the two friends, but it's totally drowned out by the creepy incest subtext. Besides, I was looking for male bonding.
Well, at least the guys are cute.
See also: Butcher's Block
Lesbian subtext is nice, though. I was surprised to learn how much slash fans are opposed to femslash, with exceptions where it's bleeding obvious that's what the writers were going for.
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Wait, Syfy is just making movies based on creepypastas now? Because if they get to the "warning from the future" one, I'm going to have a lot of complaining about how prion diseases aren't hereditary or airborne to do.
It's actually a six-episode tv series, so it has a different structure than a movie would, with a crisis and denouement in every episode.
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