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Best Horror TV Shows

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1. Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal

Oct 7, 2019 • Rated TV-MA

The prehistoric animated adventure miniseries from Genndy Tartakovsky follows a caveman as he bonds with a tyrannosaurus rex.

2. The Returned

Oct 31, 2013 • Rated TV-MA

People long dead return to a small town including a 15-year old girl (Yara Pilart) killed in a car accident four years ago, a groom (Pierre Perrier) who committed suicide ten years ago, a young murdered boy (Swann Nambotin), and a serial killer (Guillaume Gouix) in this French drama (known as Les Revenants).

3. Los Espookys

Jun 14, 2019 • Rated TV-MA

The Spanish-language comedy from Fred Armisen is set in Mexico City where Renaldo (Bernardo Velasco) and his friends Ursula (Cassandra Ciangherotti), her sister Tati (Ana Fabrega) and Andres (Julio Torres) create a business from their passion for horror and gore.

4. The Last of Us

Jan 15, 2023 • Rated TV-MA

Set 20 years after the destruction of civilization, Joel (Pedro Pascal) is hired to smuggle 14-year-old Ellie (Bella Ramsey) out of a quarantine zone in this drama series based on the PlayStation video game of the same name.

5. What We Do in the Shadows (2019)

Mar 27, 2019 • Rated TV-MA

Nandor the Relentless (Kayvan Novak), Laszlo (Matt Berry), Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), and Nandor's familiar Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) have been living together in Staten Island for hundreds of years when they are visited by their leader about why they are there for: to take over the New World in this comedy based on the 2014 film of the same name.

6. Evil

Sep 26, 2019 • Rated TV-14

David Acosta priest-in-training (Mike Colter) recruits Kristen Bouchard, a forensic psychologist (Katja Herbers) and Ben, a carpenter (Aasif Mandvi) to help him evaluate if the phenomena reported to the church has scientific explanations or are actually supernatural in this series from from Robert and Michelle King.

7. Interview With the Vampire

Oct 2, 2022 • Rated TV-MA

Louis de Pointe (Jacob Anderson) tells a reporter about his life in 1900s New Orleans, becoming a vampire companion to Lestat De Lioncourt (Sam Reid) and the arrival of child vampire Claudia (Bailey Bass) in the series adaptation of Anne Rice's novel of the same name.

8. Being Human (UK)

Jan 25, 2009 • Rated TV-14

Life among the living is tough enough, but meet Mitchell, a 120-year-old vampire, George, a highly intelligent werewolf, and Annie an agoraphobic ghost who died under mysterious circumstances, whom all live together with just the slight bit of hope that they can fit into the community and smile at the thought of being human. But they soon discover that being human is not as easy as they hoped.

9. Toy Story of Terror

Oct 16, 2013 • Rated TV-G

Buzz, Woody and the other toys are accidentally left at a motel during a trip with their new owner Bonnie.

10. Lovecraft Country

Aug 16, 2020 • Rated TV-MA

The adaptation of Matt Ruff book follows Atticus Black (Jonathan Majors) as he goes on a roadtrip through segregated 1950s America with his friend Letitia (Jurnee Smollett-Bell) and uncle George (Courtney B. Vance) to find his missing father (Michael K. Williams).

11. The Walking Dead

Oct 31, 2010 • Rated TV-MA

Based on a comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman, a small group of survivors, led by officer Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), must fight a world full of zombies.

12. Stephen King's It

Nov 18, 1990 • Rated 16+

Stephen King's classic novel made for a terrifying mini-series about seven childhood friends whose lives are threatened by a demonic creature known as IT and how they try to put a stop to the killings he commits in routine. Twenty-seven years later, they must face him once again as they discovered that IT was not killed after all.

13. Dead Ringers (2023)

Apr 21, 2023 • Rated TV-MA

Gynecologists twins Elliot and Beverly Mantle (both played by Rachel Weisz) share everything and are willing to transcend medical ethics for women's healthcare in this television series adaptation of David Cronenberg’s 1988 thriller of the same name.

14. In The Flesh

Jun 6, 2013 • Rated TV-14

17-year-old Kieran Walker (Luke Newberry) returns to his hometown of Roarton after being treated for Partially Deceased Syndrome (PDS) so he no longer has the urge to eat brains and look more alive.

15. The Haunting of Hill House

Oct 12, 2018 • Rated TV-MA

Mike Flanagan's re-imagining of Shirley Jackson's novel focuses on the grown-up siblings who lived in Hill House including writer Steve Crane (Michiel Huisman) and his two sisters (Elizabeth Reaser and Kate Siegel) as they return to face their past.

16. The Kingdom (Riget)

Originally created for Danish television as Riget, Morten Arnfred and Lars von Trier's supernatural thriller The Kingdom chronicles the bizarre occurrences at the title hospital, the largest and most respected hospital in the country. While the series deals with such real-life complications as murder investigations and malpractice suits, a more villainous force may be unleashing itself upon the hospital staff. After a patient (Kirsten Rolffes) sees the ghost of a young girl, many of the staff members find themselves involved in frightening and bizarre situations like an ambulance that appears every evening but then instantly vanishes. Eventually, a female doctor (Birgitte Raaberg) becomes pregnant, but the accelerated development of her fetus could be a sign that the evil forces have found a way to enter more permanently into the world.

17. Lockwood & Co.

Jan 27, 2023 • Rated TV-14

Psychic teen Lucy Carlyle (Ruby Stokes) joins a London ghost-hunting agency run by two teenagers named Anthony Lockwood (Cameron Chapman) and George Karim (Ali Hadji-Heshmati) in this supernatural series created by Joe Cornish.

18. Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai

Set in 1920s Shanghai, 10-year-old Sam Wing (voiced by Izaac Wang) sets out to return Mogwai Gizmo (voiced by A.J. LoCascio) home in this animated series inspired by the Gremlins films.

19. Yellowjackets

Nov 14, 2021 • Rated TV-MA

25 years after decisions made by a high school girls soccer team to survive when a plane crash stranded them in the wilderness has not been forgotten or forgiven in this drama created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson.

20. Hannibal

Apr 4, 2013 • Rated TV-14

FBI head of Behavioral Sciences Jack Crawford (Laurence Fishburne) brings together FBI profiler Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) and psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) to help solve cases.

21. Castlevania: Nocturne

Sep 28, 2023 • Rated TV-MA

Set in 1972 France, the anti-revolutionary aristocracy has aligned itself with a vampire promising to end the revolution. However, Annette, a sorceress from the Caribbean, finds the last descendent of vampire hunters, Richter Belmont to lead the resistance in the latest Castlevania animated series.

22. Channel Zero

Oct 11, 2016 • Rated TV-14

The anthology series will feature a Creepypasta, a horror story usually based on a image or other media that was created and shared on the internet (Slender Man being one of the notorious ones).

23. The Terror

Mar 25, 2018 • Rated TV-14

The fictional account of the Royal Navy's expedition led by Sir John Franklin (Ciaran Hinds) in 1847 to locate the Northwest Passage is based on Dan Simmons's 2007 novel of the same name where the crew on the HMS Terror are trapped in the ice and attacked by an unknown entity.

24. Ash Vs. Evil Dead

Oct 31, 2015 • Rated TV-MA

The comedic horror series from by Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell finds Ash trying to keep away from the Evil Dead for the past 30 years. When a Deadite plague breaks out, a reluctant Ash with the help of Pablo Simon Bolivar (Ray Santiago) and Kelly Maxwell (Dana Delorenzo) try to end Evil once and for all.

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