Horror site wants to send digital chills up your spine

The next several days will likely be very shaky ones for the folks who run FEARnet. And they couldn’t be more pleased.

FEARnet, a multiplatform media outlet devoted to horror, will celebrate its first anniversary this Halloween week by unveiling its first original movie, “Catacombs,” starring rocker Pink, and “Buried Alive,” an original online interactive series that will allow users to “rescue” characters who have been trapped in underground coffins.

“We view Halloween as our Super Bowl,” said Diane Robina, president of Comcast Emerging Networks, the parent company of FEARnet. “Our goal is to not only reach out to those who like horror and like to be scared but also reach out to a larger mainstream audience with new content. With these original pieces, we also want to be really experimental.”

In “Catacombs,” her first starring film role, Pink uses her real name, Alecia Moore. The singer stars as a young woman visiting Paris who discovers she’s become the prey in a deadly game. The film, which was produced by Twisted Pictures, one of the key forces behind the “Saw” franchise, will premiere Wednesday on FEARnet.com. It’s also available on the FEARnet channel for Comcast Digital subscribers.

“Buried Alive,” which will premiere Friday on the online site, will run for six weeks, with new daily installments centering on characters who unwillingly have been encased in a custom-made coffin. Visitors to the site can use clues from “footage” that will be buried elsewhere on the Web, such as on YouTube. The series is produced by Sony Pictures Television.

“The idea is to deliver to our audience a cliffhanger that will keep them coming back every day,” Robina said.

FEARnet will fill out the week with numerous selections from its extensive horror film library and other short-form, horror-related series. One of those, “30 Days of Night: Blood Trails,” is a companion to “30 Days of Night,” the vampire movie starring Josh Hartnett that opened Oct. 19.

-- Greg Braxton