“Channel Zero: No-End House” is easily one of the best new horror anthologies on the air today. The season 2 premiere was a masterpiece which set a nice tone for future episodes. It was well done with few bones to pick apart. Syfy has a winner here and this is what we experienced.
An Unsettling premiere
Margot Sleator has had a rough summer. She hasn’t been out much because of her guilt over the death of her father. He died from an allergic reaction and at the time, she was breaking her curfew. Had she been home on time, she may have been able to help him, but all she found when she got home was his dead body. Now it was time for her to start moving forward with her life. She accepts an invitation to attend a party with friends. While at the event, a few friends decided that they wanted to check out the haunted house in town. A viral video had been circulating, giving select people the details of the location. She agreed, looking forward to an adventure, but what they found would forever change their lives.
Entering No end house
Upon entering the house, the tone became dark and consistently grew dimmer with each room visited. Each room was disturbing to her. It isn’t long before it becomes obvious that the house can pull the very thoughts and memories from within her mind, because each room contains something that it can use against her. There is a definite progression towards sheer terror that doesn’t come in the form of jump scenes, but just unfolds in a sequential worsening of the content. She encountered a room that looked like a city pool with a man in dark clothing and a wooden mask, who nodded at each visitor except for Margot. He addressed her by the nickname she went by as a child. He warned the group not to continue, but they disregarded his words.
The rooms are familiar
The next room looked like the hallways of a local Hotel, the fourth as an attic containing a large screen playing memories from Margot’s head, and the fifth, a replica of Margot’s living room ow it looked on the evening her father passed. It also included her father’s rotting corpse. Gradually, Margot had been separated from the rest of the group and she found herself alone in the room with her father. As she neared his body, he grabbed her and said, “You have to go through to get home.” The young people all fled the house, Margot included. Jules walked Margot back to her house and when they arrived, they realized that Margot’s house had the same markings of each room at the No-End House.
Revelation of the real plot
We know now that the plot isn’t as much about haunted houses as it is about haunted people. The house just pulled the memories to the fore. It exists to create urban nightmares for each person who passes through its’ rooms. Each person has their own set of problems and unique memories so it will be interesting to catch the upcoming episodes to find out more.
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