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FEARNET HAS THE SCARIEST MONTH OF ONLINE ENTERTAINMENT; TRANSFORMS OCTOBER INTO
FEARTOBER WITH 31 DAYS OF MOVIES AND ORIGINAL PROGRAMMING

Horror and Thriller Site Celebrates the Scariest Month of the Year With Special Series, Mind-Blowing Pumpkin Palooza, Plus 25 Movies Each Week; Culminates With World Premiere of New Original Web Series FEAR CLINIC Starring Horror Icons Robert Englund, Danielle Harris and Kane Hodder

ALL FREE Only at Fearnet.com, FEARNET On Demand and FEARNET Mobile

Los Angeles, CA, September 30, 2009 – Every schoolboy knows the drill – September is Back to School month, but it is October that makes life worth living each fall. This year, FEARNET (via three user-friendly portals: Fearnet.com, FEARNET On Demand and FEARNET Mobile) presents an October with some “bite,” when the horror site takes over the entertainment calendar and mutates the month of October into “FEARtober,” a full month of macabre movies, series and more, culminating in the world premiere of director Robert Hall’s highly-anticipated new web series FEAR CLINIC, starring a triumvirate of the Silver Screen’s horror elite, never-before-seen together on film. Robert Englund (Nightmare on Elm Street franchise), Danielle Harris (Halloween franchise) and Kane Hodder (Friday The 13th franchise) star as the inhabitants of FEAR CLINIC, where patients go to be cured of their most dreaded phobias by undergoing a revolutionary treatment no insurance policy would ever cover. FEAR CLINIC will premiere Monday, October 26th, with new episodes premiering for five consecutive nights. The series was previewed in July of this year at Comic Con, with the packed house of rabid fans giving the show an explosive ovation.

FEARNET is always FREE and available 24/7 at Fearnet.com as well as FEARNET On Demand (check local cable provider), and FEARNET Mobile (mobile.fearnet.com). That’s three portals for the most original lineup of horror and thriller entertainment anywhere.

Leading up to the world premiere of FEAR CLINIC, FEARNET has assembled a special 31-day programming slate that cements the site’s undisputed ownership of all things horror, thriller and suspense. No two days are ever the same throughout FEARtober, with new and thrilling programming premiering each and every day, urging viewers to visit early and visit often. Original episodes of STREETS OF FEAR, the return of our how-to series TRICKS OF THE TRADE and ROUTE 666: AMERICA’S SCARIEST HOME HAUNTS, a “killer” Pumpkin Palooza by the legendary master sculptor Russ Leno, and more than 50 cult favorite full-length fear flicks – all FREE – come together to make FEARNET the place to be every single day next month. If you haven’t bookmarked Fearnet.com yet, now is the
time, horror fans!

Here is a sampling of what viewers can expect this FEARtober …

STREETS OF FEAR – Take a walk on the wild side, but make sure you are well-armed, as this hit series returns October 5 for a new season with 10 original, spine-tingling episodes and encore engagement of last year’s premiere episodes that take viewers to the creepiest addresses in America.
Hosted by Spider, we take you on a daily journey where no site has gone before — behind the eerie legends and real-death tales of terror as we dig up the dirt on these byways that have earned such terrifying namesakes as Bloody Spring Road, Gore Orphanage Road and Hell Hollow Road. No GPS system on earth can save you once you’ve made a wrong turn onto these streets! New episodes will
spotlight such terrorizing locales as: Bloods Point Road in Cherry Valley, IL; Convict Hill Road in Austin, TX; Bristol, CT’s Witches Rock Road, and Bloody Pond Road in Lake George, NY.

PUMPKIN PALOOZA – Each day of FEARtober will dawn with the unveiling of a new artistic homage to Fear, with each masterpiece carved in PUMPKIN by Russ Leno, perhaps the world’s greatest living pumpkin carver. Not your father’s jack-o-lanterns for sure, these squash sculptures are being created exclusively for FEARNET, and 31 days means 31 different tricked-out pumpkins carved with the delicate skill and methodical creativity of a mad scientist — check back each day for the newest work of macabre art to be unveiled, because as the days pass, Leno’s creations become bigger and more fantastic, culminating in a week of pumpkins so big, so intricate and so terrifying that … well, you’ll just have to check Fearnet.com for yourself each day. Leno’s victims – er, subjects – will be selected with great care, and include Horror Icons, Headline Newsmakers, Sexy Scream Queens and Celebrities we Fear Most.

ROUTE 666: AMERICA’S SCARIEST HOME HAUNTS – “Scream Queen” Danielle Harris (of “Halloween” fame and this month’s original series FEAR CLINIC) is your host for this guided tour of the country’s “scare the crap out of you” most frightening and innovative haunted houses. From severed limbs to disemboweled victims, we’ll take viewers behind the chainsaw to meet the mad creators of these hell holes, who share their inspiration, methodology and tricks of the trade.

How-To Tips: TRICKS OF THE TRADE – Want to know how to make fake blood, the proper way to gouge out the eyes of a pumpkin, or how to fashion a gory, oozing wound in order to make your Halloween a real treat? Each day throughout FEARtober, we’ll feature a different 1-2 minute “how-to” trick guaranteed to help make you the life – or death – of the party. Where else can you learn how to create that “just electrocuted” look we all crave?

MOVIES TO DIE FOR – Viewers already know FEARNET as the home of 25+ different FREE movies each and every week of the year, but this FEARtober we are serving up some tasty morsels that have even our mouths watering. Just to whet your appetite, here is a sampling of what you’ll find at Fearnet.com throughout the month:

Clive Barker’s THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN will be available in Unrated Director’s Cut (starring Bradley Cooper and Leslie Bibb)

BUG (starring Ashley Judd)

BOOGEYMAN (starring 7th Heaven’s Barry Watson and Bones’ Emily Deschanel)

THE SEVENTH SIGN (starring Demi Moore)

THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE (starring Dexter’s Jennifer Carpenter)

THE BURNING (starring Jason Alexander)

Rob Zombie’s HOUSE OF 1,000 CORPSES

NINE LIVES (Starring Paris Hilton)

KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE

FEARTOBER EXTRAS – From behind-the-scenes video to director Q & A features, FEARNET is stacking the deck this FEARtober, with even MORE of the unique features viewers return for time and time again. Our editors are working overtime to make this FEARtober our best ever, with a pile of original content, including:

Phobia Fridays – FEARNET reporters and reviewers put the fear into the day’s headline genre news as they diagnose the ideal phobia behind each story … with tongue planted firmly in cheek. Scared to check out the series premiere of Eastwick? Could be a case of wiccaphobia – the fear of witches, or perhaps neophobia, the fear of something new. Bombarded with too many Jennifer’s Body ads? You might be suffering from meganfoxaphobia (okay, we might have made that last one up).

Celebrities’ Biggest Fears – Which starlet is petrified of squirrels? What terrifies Tim Burton? We’ve been querying your favorite celebrities all year long, so check in all month long for video compilations to find out what scares the **!!@#* out of your favorite stars.

The Fear 10 – Nothing scares more than a villain who literally feeds on the fear of his victims, right? From A Nightmare on Elm Street’s Freddy Krueger to Batman nemesis The Scarecrow, we have analyzed the villains of the Silver Screen and, in honor of FEARtober, we will count down our ten favorites, one each day. Did your fave creep make the cut? Tune in to find out who is the biggest “fear eater” of them all.

Face some fear … if you dare.

About FEARNET
FEARNET, the world’s premier destination for horror, thriller and suspense, is a cutting-edge, multi-platform movie network available on demand, online and on mobile 24/7. Its unrivaled modern horror library unites Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) (NASDAQ: CMCSK). The nation’s leader provider of cable, entertainment and communications products and services with Sony Pictures Television(SPT: US) and
Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF), the two top studios producing and distributing the genre.

FEARNET On Demand has generated over 350 MM views, is the #1 Comcast Free Movie VOD network,#! Free HD network and is available on Comcast, Cox Communications, Verizon FiOS and AT&T (mobile.fearnet.com), Insight Communications, Bresnan and Guadalupe Valley Systems. www.fearnet.com is a horror website, and PC Magazine recently named FEARnet.com among “The 15 Best Websites for Movie Fans.” Users can explore the world of the macabre on a visually arresting video-rich environment packed with movies, interactive community features and fresh original content.

Mitchell Wells

Founder and Editor in Chief of Horror Society. Self proclaimed Horror Movie Freak, Tech Geek, love indie films and all around nice kinda guy!!

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