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 Hellbound first
Sweet Home 2020
Series
As humans turn into savage monsters and the world plunges into terror, a handful of survivors fight for their lives — and to hold on to their humanity.
The sides of Sweet Home
- People turning into monsters
- Survivors barricaded in an apartment building
- A withdrawn young man fighting his own change
Good for you if
- you like being scared by grotesque monsters, each one different from the last.
- you like strangers forced to hold a building together to stay alive.
- you like every corridor and stairwell feeling like a trap.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand gore and bloody monster attacks.
- you won't read subtitles for a Korean series.
- you can't take suicide and trauma on screen.
About: humanity · survival · guilt
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
Tokyo Ghoul 2014
Anime
Ken Kaneki, a bookworm college student, meets Rize, a girl his own age with whom he shares many interests.
The sides of Tokyo Ghoul
- A student turned half-ghoul after a date
- A coffee shop run by ghouls
- Investigators hunting ghouls in Tokyo
Good for you if
- you can take a story where things keep getting worse for its hero.
- you like horror hiding behind a quiet Tokyo café.
- you like a hero who must hide what he has become.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch torture and people being eaten.
- you don't watch anime.
About: identity · hunger · monsters
Hereditary 2018
Film
When the matriarch of the Graham family passes away, her daughter begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about her ancestry.
The sides of Hereditary
- A family after a grandmother's funeral
- A clicking sound
- A mother's grief turning into something else
Good for you if
- you want horror that stays with you for days.
- you like a mother's grief played at full force.
- you like dread that builds slowly.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand gore. Some of its images are shown up close and held.
- a family torn apart by grief and mental illness is too much for you.
About: grief · family · fate
Death's Game 2023
Series
At the brink of going to hell, Yee-jae must cycle through twelve separate lives and twelve separate deaths in this reincarnation drama.
The sides of Death's Game
- A man punished by Death after ending his life
- Twelve lives and twelve deaths
- A new body in every episode
Good for you if
- you like a man thrown from one stranger's life into another.
- you want each life to end in a death he has to escape.
- you like watching a man slowly learn what his life was worth.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a story that starts with a suicide.
- you won't read subtitles for a Korean series.
About: death · punishment · the value of life
The Platform 2019
Film
A slab of food descends down a vertical facility. The residents above eat heartily, leaving those below starving and desperate. A rebellion is imminent.
The sides of The Platform
- A tower prison with one platform of food
- Levels from top to bottom
- Who eats and who doesn't
Good for you if
- you like strange, allegorical stories.
- you like a cruel, unflinching idea.
- you like not knowing which level you'll wake up on.
Bad for you if
- gore and cannibalism ruin it for you.
- you won't read subtitles. It's in Spanish (a dub exists).
About: inequality · solidarity · greed
Squid Game 2021
Series
Hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children's games. Inside, a tempting prize awaits — with deadly high stakes.
The sides of Squid Game
- Children's games where losing means death
- People drowning in debt
- A prize that grows with every death
Good for you if
- you like games where any move could be the last.
- you like getting attached to players you might lose.
- you can take a dark story about money and despair.
Bad for you if
- mass killings on screen ruin it for you.
- you won't read subtitles. It's in Korean (a dub exists).
About: debt · inequality · survival
Midnight Mass 2021
Series
The arrival of a charismatic young priest brings glorious miracles, ominous mysteries and renewed religious fervor to a dying town desperate to believe.
The sides of Midnight Mass
- A young priest who arrives with miracles
- A dying island parish
- A man home after a fatal crash he caused
Good for you if
- you like dread building on an island where the miracles don't add up.
- you like long monologues about death and what people hope comes after.
- you can sit with addiction and grief as the real subject.
Bad for you if
- you need momentum and long sermons will lose you.
- you can't take the blood the last episodes bring.
About: faith · addiction · grief
Hell Girl 2005
Anime
A supernatural system allows people to take revenge by having other people sent to Hell via the services of a mysterious entity and her assistants who implement this system. Revenge, injustice, hatred, and the nature of human emotions are common themes throughout the series.
The sides of Hell Girl
- A website that sends someone to hell at midnight
- A girl in a black kimono who answers
- A price paid by the one who asks
Good for you if
- you can take revenge stories where nobody really wins.
- you like quiet, eerie horror with a straw doll and a red string.
Bad for you if
- you can't face bullying and abuse in nearly every episode.
- four seasons is too much for you.
- you don't watch anime.
About: revenge · injustice · guilt

Shiki 2010
Anime
Sotobamura is a small village with around 1300 residents; so small the village isn't even connected to a single highway. An isolated village in which old customs, such as the burial of the dead, are still practiced. One day, the bodies of three people are found dead. Although Ozaki Toshio, the village's lone doctor, feels uncertain, he treats the deaths as a normal occurrence. However, in the days following, the villagers start to die one after the other.
The sides of Shiki
- An isolated village of about 1300 people
- Villagers dying one after another
- A doctor who starts to suspect the truth
Good for you if
- you like horror that creeps in house by house.
- you can take a story where nobody comes out clean.
- you like a patient build before the horror breaks out.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand gore and massacres.
- you don't watch anime.
About: death · fear of the other · what makes a monster
Platinum End 2021
Anime
As his classmates celebrate their middle school graduation, troubled Mirai is mired in darkness. But his battle is just beginning when he receives some salvation from above in the form of an angel. Now Mirai is pitted against 12 other chosen humans in a battle in which the winner becomes the next god of the world. Mirai has an angel in his corner, but he may need to become a devil to survive.
The sides of Platinum End
- A boy saved from suicide by an angel
- Thirteen people chosen to become god
- Arrows that make people love or kill
Good for you if
- you like a deadly contest between thirteen candidates for god.
- you can take a dark story about despair and murder.
- you like mind games from the creators of Death Note.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a story that opens with a suicide attempt.
- you don't watch anime.
About: despair · happiness · faith
Attack on Titan 2013
Anime
100 years ago, the last remnants of humanity were forced to retreat behind the towering walls of a fortified city to escape the massive, man-eating Titans that roamed the land outside their fortress. Only the members of the Scouting Legion dared to stray beyond the safety of the walls – but even those brave warriors seldom returned alive. Those within the city clung to the illusion of a peaceful existence until the day that dream was shattered, and their slim chance at survival was reduced to one horrifying choice: kill – or be devoured!
The sides of Attack on Titan
- Survival against impossible odds
- Twists that flip who the enemy is
- War, freedom and what it costs
Good for you if
- you like humanity trapped behind walls with giants outside.
- you like a story that turns everything upside down halfway.
- you can take a dark, brutal war story.
Bad for you if
- giants eating people ruin it for you.
- you don't watch anime.
About: freedom · war · revenge
The Outsider 2020
Series
When an insidious supernatural force edges its way into a seemingly straightforward investigation into the gruesome murder of a young boy, it leads a seasoned cop and an unorthodox investigator to question everything they believe in.
The sides of The Outsider
- A boy's murder in a Georgia town
- A suspect seen in two places at once
- An investigator who sees what others miss
Good for you if
- you like dread that builds in quiet rooms and dark caves.
- you like a case with proof that a man was in two places at once.
- you like a patient story that takes its time with grief.
Bad for you if
- the murder of a child and a grieving family are too much for you.
- you need a crime explained without anything supernatural.
About: grief · belief · evil
Parasyte -the maxim- 2014
Anime
A species of parasitic aliens descends on Earth and quickly infiltrates humanity by entering the brains of vulnerable targets; insatiable beings that gain total control of their host and are capable of transforming themselves to feed on unsuspecting prey. High school student Shinichi Izumi falls victim to one of these parasites, but the creature fails to take over his brain and ends up in his right hand.
The sides of Parasyte -the maxim-
- An alien living in a high school student's right hand
- Parasites that reshape a human head into blades
- A boy who stops feeling like himself
Good for you if
- you like never knowing who in the room is still human.
- you like an alien that argues with its host from inside his hand.
- you can take a story where the people you like do not make it.
Bad for you if
- a head splitting open into blades ruins it for you.
- you don't watch anime.
- you won't read subtitles for a Japanese series.
About: identity · what makes us human · grief
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
Outcast 2016
Series
Kyle Barnes has been plagued by possession since he was a child. Now an adult, he embarks on a spiritual journey to find answers, but what he uncovers could mean the end of life on Earth as we know it.
The sides of Outcast
- A man haunted by possessions since childhood
- A small town in West Virginia
- A reverend fighting demons
Good for you if
- you like demonic possession horror.
- you like dread that builds slowly in a quiet town.
- you can take a dark story with little comfort.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand violent exorcisms and beatings.
- you can't watch family abuse and possessed children.
About: evil · guilt · faith
The Handmaid's Tale 2017
Series
Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.
The sides of The Handmaid's Tale
- A woman forced to bear children for a ruling family
- A religious dictatorship in America
- A resistance in whispers
Good for you if
- you like Elisabeth Moss saying everything with a stare into the camera.
- you like every conversation in Gilead feeling like it could be a trap.
- you like seeing how a regime controls women's bodies and words.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch rape and torture on screen.
- you can't stand hangings and mutilations.
- you need some hope, and here the hope comes slowly over six seasons.
About: freedom · motherhood · resistance · faith
Carrie 2026
Series
After her father's sudden, untimely death thrusts her into the unforgiving ecosystem of public high school, Carrie is forced to navigate a viral bullying scandal that tears through her community, the relentless pressure and casual cruelty of the social‑media age, and the awakening of mysterious telekinetic powers that rise alongside her adolescence.
The sides of Carrie
- A grieving teenage girl at a new high school
- A bullying scandal gone viral
- Telekinetic powers waking up
Good for you if
- you like Stephen King horror rooted in everyday cruelty.
- you like a teenage story about grief and finding your power.
- you like waiting for the moment everything snaps.
Bad for you if
- you can't take bullying and an abusive mother on screen.
- you can't stand bloody horror scenes.
About: bullying · grief · revenge
Death Note 2017
Film
Light Turner finds a supernatural notebook and uses it to mete out death, attracting the attention of a detective, a demon and a girl in his class.
The sides of Death Note
- A notebook that kills whoever is named in it
- Ryuk, a demon voiced by Willem Dafoe
- A Seattle teenager playing god
Good for you if
- you like a detective closing in on a hidden killer.
- you like deaths so elaborate they are almost funny.
- you like a demon who looms in the dark behind a teenager.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand gory deaths on screen.
- you can't follow a teenager who kills the people he judges guilty.
About: power · justice · guilt
Servant 2019
Series
A Philadelphia couple are in mourning after an unspeakable tragedy creates a rift in their marriage and opens the door for a mysterious force to enter their home.
The sides of Servant
- A grieving couple and a lifelike doll
- A young nanny who moves in
- A Philadelphia townhouse the camera hardly leaves
Good for you if
- you like dread building inside one house.
- you like a doll that may have become a real baby.
- you like a mystery stretched patiently over four seasons.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a story built on the death of a baby.
- you can't take horror, even when it is more creepy than gory.
About: grief · guilt · faith