I really, really like this idea, particularly because it’s designed to be provided to viewers at no extra cost beyond whatever tier it’s attached to. I like the WWE’s OnDemand wrestling channel in theory, but I’m not about to pay another ten bucks a month for it. Give me a free option to watch slasher films every night of October, however, and I’m all over it.

The network, which hasn’t been named yet, will come out this Halloween, Oct. 31. It will feature movies and TV thrillers, suspense dramas and, of course, horror flicks. The network will also have a web site with multimedia applications such as music downloads and video outtakes. Both the web site and on demand network will include advertising.

This is the first such network to come out of a partnership between the two companies. Comcast paid $300 million to join an investment group led by Sony to buy MGM 18 months ago. As part of that deal, Comcast gained access to hundreds of movies and TV shows from MGM and Sony.

Comcast expects the horror focus to be particularly attractive to its video on demand users. Horror films are one of the fastest-growing genres in Hollywood with one in three debuting at number one at the box office in 2005, according to Comcast. The genre also has a growing fan base among 18 to 34 year olds - Comcast’s target audience.

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