Review- Channel Zero: No-End House premiere
Channel Zero: No-End House takes viewers on a mind bending trip through one of the most chilling Creepypasta stories around.
There’s a moment when the newest installment of SyFy’s Channel Zero anthology series, No-End House, seems too simple. The simplicity only lasts for a single moment, because there is nothing simple about the No-End House and that’s what makes this new season of Channel Zero so exciting.
In the season premiere, “This Isn’t Real,” we meet Margot Sleator. Margot has been withdrawn from her friends since the death of her father (played to perfection by John Carroll Lynch) but when a mysterious invitation arrives on their phones, Margot joins her friends at the No-End House.
The No-End House is well known in their community. It has six rooms and each room gets progressively scarier than the last. The problem, of course, comes in reaching the end. According to showrunner Nick Antosca, the nightmare doesn’t end when you leave the house, and this is our starting point in the season premiere.
Margot and her friends enter the house to find busts of themselves in the first room. They’re amazed at the detail of the pieces of art considering that they just entered the house minutes before. When the lights go out and come on again, the busts are split open for a literal look inside their heads. This, of course, is the basis for our story.
Margot’s story is compelling because the mysterious (and fantastically freaky) character in the second room singles her out and whispers in her ear. She has the option to leave but decided to keep going, and that means she has to face moments from her past as she moves from room to room until she reaches the end. Once she leaves, though, Margot realizes that everything is different.
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Based on a Creepypasta story by Brian Russell, No-End House is chilling because the house picks its target, finding someone who, says Antosca, “is ripe” for the house’s brand of terror.
Channel Zero has already been renewed for a third and fourth season and showrunner Nick Antosca says there is a lot more to look forward to when No-End House wraps up.
Channel Zero: No-End House airs Wednesdays at 10pm on SyFy.