What do you want to watch tonight?
Each title says who it's good for, and who it isn't. Tap what you want tonight, or say no to one and why.
Closest to Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities first
Silent Hill 2006
Film
Rose, a desperate mother, takes her adopted daughter, Sharon, to the town of Silent Hill in an attempt to cure her of her ailment. After a violent car crash, Sharon disappears, and Rose embarks on a horrific journey to get her back and begins to uncover the truth behind the apocalyptic disaster that burned the town 30 years earlier.
The sides of Silent Hill
- A mother searching for her missing daughter
- A ghost town buried in ash and fog
- Faceless nurses and a man with a giant blade
Good for you if
- you like a siren that turns the whole town into a nightmare.
- you want a world that peels away into darkness.
- you love the look of the video game brought to the screen.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand gore, skinning and burning on screen.
- you can't watch a story built on cruelty done to a child.
About: motherhood · religious fanaticism · guilt
Wicked City 1987
Anime
A peace treaty between the Earth and the Black World, a parallel universe of demons, is coming to an end. Two cops, Taki, a human male, and Maki, a female demon, are assigned to protect a diplomat who will help secure another treaty. A radical group of demons from the Black World are out to assassinate the diplomat and prevent the treaty; only the bond that forms between the two cops can save the Earth from destruction.
The sides of Wicked City
- A human agent and a demon agent
- A treaty between Earth and a demon world
- A diplomat to protect in a night city
Good for you if
- you like horror where anyone might turn into a monster.
- you like a Tokyo hiding a demon world.
- you like dark, stylish 1980s Japanese animation.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather not see graphic sex, some of it forced.
- you can't watch bodies twisted and torn apart.
- you don't watch anime.
About: trust · desire · the monstrous
Marianne 2019
Series
When a novelist realizes her terrifying stories are coming true, she returns to her hometown to face the demons from her past that inspire her writing.
The sides of Marianne
- A horror novelist whose stories come true
- A seaside hometown in Brittany
- A witch from her teenage years
Good for you if
- you like being scared by a face that smiles in the dark.
- you like a haunted seaside town lit in eerie reds and greens.
- you like a curse that bleeds out of a writer's books.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand gory, disturbing images.
- you need everything to have a rational explanation.
About: guilt · childhood · writing
Supernatural 2005
Series
When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.
The sides of Supernatural
- Two brothers hunting monsters
- A black Impala
- Angels, demons and the end of the world
Good for you if
- you like a bond between two brothers above everything.
- you like a monster of the week.
- you like Sam and Dean fighting demons with salt, shotguns and a '67 Impala.
Bad for you if
- fifteen seasons is far more than you want to start.
- gore and bloody fights ruin a show for you.
About: family · sacrifice · fate
30 Coins 2020
Series
Father Vergara—an exorcist, boxer and ex-convict—lives in a remote village in Spain. Hoping to be lost and forgotten, Vergara’s demons catch up to him.
The sides of 30 Coins
- An exorcist priest hiding in a Spanish village
- A coin said to have paid Judas
- Demons and grotesque creatures
Good for you if
- you like religious horror in a quiet Spanish village.
- you want Álex de la Iglesia's excess, monsters and all.
- you like a conspiracy built around the thirty coins of Judas.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for a Spanish series.
- you can't stand gore and monstrous bodies.
About: faith · guilt · evil
From the mind of horror manga maestro Junji Ito comes a spine-tingling selection of some of his most bizarre, disturbing and terrifying tales.
The sides of Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre
- Short horror tales from Junji Ito's manga
- Tomie, Souichi and other strange figures
- Bodies twisted in unsettling ways
Good for you if
- you like horror that creeps under your skin.
- you love the surreal nightmares of Junji Ito's drawings.
- you want short stories you can watch one at a time.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand body horror and gore.
- you don't watch anime.
- you won't read subtitles for a Japanese series.
About: obsession · the uncanny · death
American Horror Story 2011
Series
An anthology horror drama series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, a farmhouse in Roanoke, a cult, the apocalypse and a summer camp.
The sides of American Horror Story
- A new horror story each season
- A haunted house, an asylum, a coven, a freak show
- The same actors in new roles
Good for you if
- you like ghosts, witches and killers, a new nightmare every season.
- you like a story that gets stranger with every episode.
- you like camp horror that laughs at its own excess.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand gore, torture and cruel deaths.
- you can't commit to thirteen seasons, even when each one stands alone.
About: madness · sin · outsiders · family secrets
Hemlock Grove 2013
Series
One cannot quench his all-consuming thirst. The other cannot tame the beast clawing its way out. In the sleepy Pennsylvania village of Hemlock Grove, two young men struggle to accept painful truths: about family, themselves, the mystery of the White Tower - and a terrifying new threat so powerful it will turn them from predators into prey.
The sides of Hemlock Grove
- A teenage werewolf and a rich heir
- A murdered girl in a Pennsylvania town
- A secret lab in the White Tower
Good for you if
- you like a strange town full of werewolves, witches and odd experiments.
- you want gothic horror that unsettles you.
- you like Peter and Roman hunting the killer of a local girl.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand gore and gruesome transformations.
- you'd rather avoid explicit sex scenes.
About: monsters · family secrets · friendship
Nosferatu 2024
Film
A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.
The sides of Nosferatu
- A young wife haunted by a vampire
- Count Orlok travelling to a German town
- A plague of rats
Good for you if
- you like cold, shadowy images of an 1830s German town.
- you want a horror film where Count Orlok is a real terror lurking in the shadows.
- you like a period film of candles, carriages and a castle in Transylvania.
Bad for you if
- you need a horror film that moves faster.
- you'd rather avoid erotic and disturbing scenes of possession.
About: obsession · desire · death · plague
American Horror Stories 2021
Series
An anthology series of stand alone episodes delving into horror myths, legends and lore.
The sides of American Horror Stories
- Standalone horror episodes
- Urban legends and Halloween myths
- Return visits to the Murder House
Good for you if
- you like a new scare every episode, from haunted houses to urban legends.
- you like odd premises, like a banned film that turns its audience into killers.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand gore and bloody kills.
- you want characters you follow from season to season, not a new cast each week.
About: urban legends · guilt · revenge
The Shining 1980
Film
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
The sides of The Shining
- An empty hotel in winter
- A father going mad
- A boy riding his tricycle down the halls
Good for you if
- you like dread that builds slowly in empty corridors.
- you like long gliding shots behind a boy on his tricycle.
- you like a performance that becomes truly frightening.
Bad for you if
- you scare easily. Some images stay for years.
- you can't watch a family threatened by the father. Jack's drinking and rage turn on his wife and son.
About: isolation · madness · family
Sleepy Hollow 1999
Film
Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders the townsfolk attribute to a legendary specter, The Headless Horseman.
The sides of Sleepy Hollow
- A rational constable in a superstitious village
- A headless horseman
- Misty woods in autumn
Good for you if
- you like a grey, gothic world drained of colour.
- you like a murder mystery with a supernatural killer.
- you like Tim Burton's dark fairy tales.
Bad for you if
- lots of decapitations ruin it for you.
- a headless rider swinging a sword through dark woods is too scary for you.
About: reason · superstition · revenge
Pan's Labyrinth 2006
Film
In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an underground kingdom. To return to her true father, she must complete a series of surreal and perilous tasks that blur the line between reality and fantasy.
The sides of Pan's Labyrinth
- A girl escaping into a fairy tale
- A cruel captain in 1944 Spain
- A faun with three tasks
Good for you if
- you like a dark fairy tale with creatures you won't forget.
- you like a story where the real monsters are human.
- you like a world that's beautiful and frightening.
Bad for you if
- brutal, close-up violence is too much for you.
- you won't read subtitles. It's in Spanish (a dub exists).
About: innocence · cruelty · imagination
The Witch 2016
Film
In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member's faith, loyalty and love are tested in shocking ways.
The sides of The Witch
- A Puritan family alone by the woods
- A baby that vanishes
- A black goat
Good for you if
- you like dread that builds from small things.
- you like a slow, atmospheric horror.
- you like candlelit, grey images of 1630.
Bad for you if
- you can't bear harm coming to children. A baby vanishes in the first minutes.
- you need some hope. The family falls apart and nothing comes to save it.
About: faith · family · temptation
Penny Dreadful 2014
Series
Some of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London. Penny Dreadful is a frightening psychological thriller that weaves together these classic horror origin stories into a new adult drama.
The sides of Penny Dreadful
- A medium haunted by a demon
- Victor Frankenstein and his creature
- A gaslit London hunting a vampire
Good for you if
- you like gothic horror where the demons turn out to be real.
- you can't look away from Eva Green in a séance.
- you like candlelight, velvet and gaslit London streets.
Bad for you if
- you can't take vivisection and torn-open bodies.
- you'd rather not have sex scenes on screen with company in the room.
About: faith · monstrosity · loneliness
Chainsaw Man 2022
Anime
Denji has a simple dream—to live a happy and peaceful life, spending time with a girl he likes. This is a far cry from reality, however, as Denji is forced by the yakuza into killing devils in order to pay off his crushing debts. Using his pet devil Pochita as a weapon, he is ready to do anything for a bit of cash.
The sides of Chainsaw Man
- A boy in debt to the yakuza
- A dog devil that becomes his heart
- A government devil-hunting squad
Good for you if
- you like crude, absurd jokes from a hero whose big dream is toast with jam and a girlfriend.
- you want chainsaws tearing through devils.
- you can take a world that keeps using its hero.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand blood and gore in every fight.
- you don't watch anime.
About: poverty · desire · being used
Smile 2022
Film
After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain.
The sides of Smile
- A psychiatrist cursed after a patient's death
- Strangers with a fixed smile
- A childhood trauma coming back
Good for you if
- you like jump scares and a grin you can't forget.
- you like a psychiatrist tracing a chain of deaths to understand what is hunting her.
- you can take a horror story with no easy way out.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch suicide and trauma on screen.
- you can't stand body horror and bloody wounds in close up.
About: trauma · mental illness · isolation
The Fall of the House of Usher 2023
Series
To secure their fortune — and future — two ruthless siblings build a family dynasty that begins to crumble when their heirs mysteriously die, one by one.
The sides of The Fall of the House of Usher
- Two siblings running a drug company
- Six heirs dying one by one
- A mysterious woman named Verna
Good for you if
- you like gothic horror built from Edgar Allan Poe stories.
- you enjoy rich heirs getting the death they asked for.
- you like a pharmaceutical dynasty paying for its fortune.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand gruesome deaths shown in detail.
- you lose track of a big family with a story for each child.
About: greed · family · guilt
Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend 1989
Anime
Legend has it that the human race is not the only dominant civilization living on Earth. Two other races exist in this world: the Makai (a demon race) and the Jujinkai (a half-man, half-beast race). Once every 3,000 years, a supreme being known as the Choujin (Overfiend) will emerge and bring balance to all three realms on Earth. In present-day Japan, after 300 years of endless searching, a Jujinkai named Amano Jyaku has discovered the presence of the Choujin inside high school slacker Tatsuo Nagumo. But now, Amano, along with his sister Megumi and their sidekick Kuroko, must protect Nagumo and his new girlfriend Akemi Ito from the Makai, who believe that Nagumo is not the Choujin, but an evil entity bent on destroying all living beings on Earth.
The sides of Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend
- A high school student hiding a demon god
- Demons and beast-men hunting him
- An apocalypse foretold every three thousand years
Good for you if
- you want demon horror that holds nothing back.
- you like a world split between humans, demons and half beasts, with its own old legend.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand graphic sex on screen.
- you can't stand gore and torture.
- you can't watch scenes of sexual violence.
About: the apocalypse · demons · adolescence
The Thing 1982
Film
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
The sides of The Thing
- A research station in Antarctica
- Something that copies anyone
- A blood test
Good for you if
- you like paranoia where anyone could be the monster.
- you like practical creature effects that still shock.
- you like an ending that leaves you unsure.
Bad for you if
- grotesque body horror ruins it for you.
- films from 1982 feel dated to you.
About: paranoia · trust · isolation