TVSquad

I am an unabashed fan of what Frank Zappa once called "Cheepnis," a certain quality shared by really good, low budget horror and sci-fi films. Which is why I was happy a couple of years ago when my cable provider picker up FEARnet, which gave me cheepnis on demand. And it's also why I'm glad I don't have Time Warner or Bright House Cable, who recently dropped the network, leaving their subscribers without the ability to watch both Warlock films on impulse, or Near Dark, or Idle Hands.

Our colleagues over at Cinematical have a good overview of the story (and a link to the FEARnet page showing Night of the Creeps). There's also a page on FEARnet with a phone number for the network, which will lead you to operators who will help connect you with your cable provider to demand (or ask politely, as Cinematical's Scott Weinberg suggests) that they reinstate FEARnet.

Now, there is also a Facebook group asking for FEARnet back, which is just shy of one thousand members as I write this. If you're still not convinced you need FEARnet, take a look at the list of upcoming movies on their petition page - Army of Darkness, Darkman (the good one - so good it's on the list twice), Christine, Child's Play, Resident Evil, Phantasm, and Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horrors.

Or we can all go down to the local Time Warner office, lock arms, and sing along with Frank - "Can y'all see? The little strings on the giant spider/The zipper from the Black Lagoon? The vents by the tanks where the bubbles go up/And the flaps on the side of the moon?"