Hallmark Channel is beginning the Christmas season earlier and earlier, launching its Countdown To Christmas film lineup on Oct. 20 this yr, 11 days earlier than Halloween. However ought to the channel take into account increasing its authentic film franchise to Halloween, Saturday Evening Live has concepts.

“We cornered the market on Christmas, why not Halloween, trigger the one factor feminine viewers like greater than romance is homicide,” the voiceover for a Halloween Hallmark film, A Stab At Love, says. (It’s not fallacious, true crime is watched primarily by ladies.)

The proposed new Hallmark Horror franchise comes with a tagline, “Solely on Hallmark the place boo means boyfriend.”

A Stab At Love, “with two virtually enticing actors with two virtually human sounding names,” has leads performed by SNL’s Chloe Fineman and host Nate Bargatze. Kelsey (Fineman), a New York author, returns residence the place she is “reunited together with her highschool crush turned hometown killer (Bargatze).

You possibly can watch above the trailer for A Stab At Love, which mixes Hallmark film and horror film tropes.